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During the Coronavirus quarantine, unleash your creativity with these free coloring pages, daily prompts, lesson plans, hashtag challenges and more.
Meet the student visionaries here.
Register to win a free mural here.
Share your stories, photos, media, and art on social media, and tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and @NYCThrive.
Win a Free Mural
NYC public school buildings may be closed through June, but this spring participating schools can win a FREE one-of-a-kind school mural. Every NYC Public School that registers as part of “Kindness Beats the Virus” will be eligible to win a FREE mural designed in the days before the quarantine by five students and street art legend Toofly. To register your school, complete this simple form. The mural will be awarded to the school that has the highest percentage of enrolled students participating in Thrive’s #KindnessBeatsTheVirus activities. The winning school will be chosen based on the number of public student Instagram posts that utilize both the #KindnessBeatsTheVirus hashtag AND the unique school hashtag included on the registration form.
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Coloring Sheets
Download individual coloring sheets, or the collections as pdfs. Share your colorized versions on Instagram or Facebook and tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and the artist.
New Release (6/10)
Curated by Bio, Crash, and Sonic. Presented with WallWorksNY.
Featured Artists: Bio | Crash | Coraima Santana | Daze | Joe Pimentel | Julio Olvera | Kekoa | Kristen Hubbard | La Borinqueña | Larry Valenzuela | LAZOO | MadC | Nicer | Nick Walker | Nico Collazo | Olga Correa | Oliver Rios | Ronnie Robles | SONIC BAD | Shiro | Toofly
New Release (4/29)
31 Pages: 1 a Day for the Month of May
Download the entire collection, an international, all-star selection curated by legends Bio, Crash, and Sonic. Presented in collaboration with WallWorks NY.
Featured Artists: Banga | BG-183 | Bio | BRE | COPE2 | Cren | Crey132 | Daze | Flavor | Ice One TWA | Jon Phes Souza | Kaves | Kekoa | Nicer | Nico Collazo | Pwoz | Quik | Ruse BAD | Santiago Jaén | Sar TMB | Soem | SONIC BAD | Toofly | Wuze
Featured Collab
For Masterpiece Minds
Daily Prompts
Activate your imagination everyday with these daily prompts. Share stories, pictures, media, and art on social media. Tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and @NYCThrive. Examples:
- Download Week 1 (pdf)
- Download Week 2 (pdf)
- Download Week 3 (pdf)
- Download 21 Days (pdf)
As Seen on Instagram
Art Lessons for Remote Learning
Lesson Plans
Written by Thrive Teaching Artists for non-artist instructors; utilizing non-specialized, readily available, at home materials. Download individual lesson plans as pdfs.
- Animal Character Design (pdf)
- Graffiti Lettering Basics (pdf)
- Guess Who Does What? (pdf)
- Hip Hop Haiku (pdf)
- Human/Animal/Machine, Pt 1 (pdf)
- Human/Animal/Machine, Pt 2 (pdf)
- Natural City (pdf)
- Paper Totem Poles (pdf)
- Personal Logos (pdf)
- Perspective Drawing (pdf)
- Self Portraits (pdf)
- Unconventional Mosaics (pdf)
Featured Partner: Projectivity
Music Samples & More. Download Projectivity’s “Producer Sample” packs and coloring book. Producer samples can be used to make your own music or videos. Download them now and make sure to tag @projectivity and the artist when you create with them, along with #KindnessBeatsTheVirus.
DownloadOnline Workshops
Interested in online arts and music workshops during the quarantine? We have options (as of 4/6).
Instagram's Top Twenty
The Hashtag Challenge
Use the #KindnessBeatsTheVirus hashtag and tag @NYCThrive. “Like” your favorites to feature them in an upcoming art exhibit. The exhibit will include two Hashtag Challenge categories. The top two entries from each category will have the opportunity to merchandise their submission as a collaboration with an acclaimed artist.
New York. Tougher than ever.
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#newyorktougherthanever #kindnessbeatsthevirus #nycthrive #philliplim #newyorker #tough #nycstrong #90sedit #lightroom
It’s a beautiful day to write messages of thanksgiving, love, hope, and kindness! ☀️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖☀️ #kindnessbeatsthevirus #inthistogether #thankyou #love #hope #kindness #nyc #spreadloveitsthebrooklynway
“Sunflowers are a symbol of faith, loyalty and adoration. They follow the movement of the sun across the sky from east to west.. “🌻. #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Organizing my drawers . Still have a few of this print left for sale ! DM if you want some summer lemonade 🙂 biking to avoid subway .
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#print #drawing#ink #lemonade #summer #fun #hairstyles #lemon #whenlifegivesyoulemons #archive #illustration #beauty #yellow #style #outfit #fashion #fashionblogger #influencer#biker #bike #biking #brushpen #paint #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Happy #NationalDoctorsDay ♥️Thank You to doctors, nurses and all the wonderful medical workers for everything you do. Thank you for keeping our communities safe during the #coronavirus pandemic. 🙏🏻 (drawing by Cielo Mendoza 4-306) #stayhome #staysafe #kindnessbeatsthevirus #doeconnected
💛 “Love, Don’t Hate”.....“In order for the world to change, the heart of the people must change.”
More kind people please.
Over the past few weeks, our family has been showered with love & kindness. 🙏🏼 Thank you to all for showing your support for the passing of my mother, and the medical ups & downs of my daughter. 🙌🏼🙏🏼 I added a little more love to this piece... 🎨
#bekind #love #donthate #butterfly #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Going to start working more on my little at home mural! Pump up these details 🎨
#wip #art #paintforapurpose #home2020 #painting #colorful #earthday2020 #stayhome #kindnessbeatsthevirus #mural #muralart #animals #acrylic #newyork #newyorklife
whanganuiwalls pangeaseed seawalls_ nycthrive
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As a photographer it’s hard never have pictures of yourself, but in quarantine it’s hard to take pictures of other people. Taking pictures of myself is something I’m not totally comfortable doing but it’s been a fun challenge for me during this time of isolation.
#photography #selfie #selfportrait #warhol #bwphotography #bwportrait #kindnessbeatsthevirus #nycphotographer #nycphotography #minimalism #minimalize #minimalzine
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“Do not fear mistakes - there are none.” - Miles Davis
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This is my first attempt at painting Brooklyn’s Finest. Thank you art4_wellness for providing a safe space for me to explore the designs that have been swimming through my mind. See you all next Wednesday evening. This officially sparks the beginning of my “KING OF KINGS” series. Stay tuned. .
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#luisaartvibes #art4wellness #art4wellnesswednesday
#artistssupportingartists #artcommunity
#art #wellness #artheals
#liveart #livemusic
#katoriwalker
#evanbishopart
#luisavibes
#uptownvinylsupreme
#320arts
#werise
#creativelife #artlife
#artandsoul #artlovers
#collaborativecreativity
#theartistsway #kindnessbeatsthevirus
My contribution to the Summer Throw down Kindness Beats the Virus campaign. "Together" blessthehustle_ #kindnessbeatsthevirus nycthrive
#hippieone #bac #goforth #isi #artlife #arthustle #ie #acrylic
Two years ago today, my father pastorrickdelrio was discharged from nyulangone after ten days recovering from aggressive cancer surgery. He had previously been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic thyroid cancer from his work at Ground Zero after 9/11. The vile cancer had spread throughout his chest and rib cage. The procedure left him without a thyroid, part of a lung, and most of three ribs; and placed a gauze mesh to patch a hole in his ribcage the size of a fist. The doctors said the surgery went well, but only time would tell for sure. Today, he called me about the renovations he's doing at agminnyc's property upstate during the quarantine. Approximately eight months ago, the doctors pronounced him cancer free. Thank you nelarte for the cherished art from those scary days, and all who prayed with us. #KindnessBeatsTheVirus
“Free Your Mind”
6” x 6”
Acrylic and markers on canvas 2020
I have done one a week for the past month while staying home. I may start another set of 4 or move on to a different size canvas. These are my big decisions these days lol.
#biotatscru #tatscru #bioheart #contemporaryart #canvas #acrylic #paintmarkers #stayhome #kindnessbeatsthevirus #miniseries #art #style
Completed 5/9 of the digital mural series. 🌞🍃🌳🌴#pimentelmurals .
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#kindnessbeatsthevirus #instadraw #artistoninstagram #muralsketch #quarantine #quarantineart #quarantineartchallenge #schoolmural #schoolmurals #digitalillustration #hifructosemag #juxtapozmag #illustration #nature #flowers #designinspiration #mandala #mandalaart #mandalas #mandala
My contribution to the wild style coloring book for schools and kids curated by crashone biotatscru and sonicbadnyc In collaboration with wallworksny & nycthrive
https://www.thrivecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Wildstyle-CB-Final.pdf
#kindnessbeatsthevirus #wallworksny #thrivecollective #wildstyle #coloring #book #stylewriting #graffiti #schools #kids #eachoneteachone #urbanlettering #graffitiart #crenone #staysafe #cren
#KindnessBeatsTheVirus nycthrive
No one said it better than #michaeljackson !
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
Peace, love and #fuckthecovid19
#urbanvibescommunity #art #artisitc #artsy #artwork #illustration #drawing #artofplanet #artistsoninstagram #artlover #theartarchive #artcommunity #yogaart #zenart #meditate #drawingoftheday #drawingthesoul #yogalife #zenlifestyle #tuesdayvibes #copicmarkers #fabercastell #prismacolor #planet13
Remember to branch out into your creative side as often as possible 😏 visit verlainenyc for the art and stay for the drinks , food and amazing staff that will make sure your safe and well taken care of. My best mona.caron plant life attempt 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 #mural #muralartist #paint #acrlyicpainting #outdoorpainting #les #nyc #kindnessbeatsthevirus #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #streerart #leeches #flowers #plants #martymar54
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ORIGIN STORIES Tats Cru: The Mural Kings
TatsCru made history this week with the #BlackLivesMatter mural in lower Manhattan. Boro President galeabrewer & wxystudio gave them less than a week to organize & produce a 21'8" x 570' (12,500 SF) mural spanning three heavily trafficked, hyper politicized city blocks. Without even seeing the design, they mobilized an all-star lineup of artists to collaborate. A torrential downpour washed away the first drops of paint, & still they completed it in less than three days. Who are Biotatscru, Nicertatscru, BG183tatscru, "The Mural Kings"?
Tats Cru's hip hop pedigree runs deep. Their founders grew up in Bronx River Houses, home of Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation, and honed their craft at block parties and on subways since 1980. Friends from high school, they evolved their art into a business as young adults. They took commissions from local merchants, painted memorial walls, and helped friends like Big Pun, fatjoe, JLo, Nas, and many others sell albums with street art. In the mid 90s, CocaCola hired them. Sony and other global brands followed.
A lot of people call themselves kings and queens. For some, it's aspirational or power tripping. For Tats Cru, the artistic royalty that may have begun as braggadocio shined brightly this week.
Some observations for all the students who should be watching:
1. No one outworked them, and no task was beneath them. They were the first to arrive and last to leave, leading by example despite the heat and backbreaking assignment painting the floor.
2. Peers respect and follow them. They could not have achieved such a monumental task alone. Colleagues showed up for them because they've shown up for 40 years.
3. Their humility was infectious. Asking acclaimed artists to paint someone else's design is ... ordinarily insulting. But if Tats Cru could agree, then who else could rightly object?
4. They made room for others, and generously shared credit. Their protégés contributed meaningfully to every aspect of the project.
From all of us, thank you. #KindnessBeatsTheVirus
📷 1, 2 joerussophoto
📷 3 gzfotografias
📷 4, 5 scratch_nyc
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Caption this, please!
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So far all I got is
#quarantinebae
#deadasslove #coronalove #loveintheapocalypse
Hope y’all good out there, New York stand up!
#phes #procreate #graff #quarantineart #newyork #kindnessbeatsthevirus #polo #lolove #dopeblackart #blackart365 #blacklove #captionthis
Delivering donated food and supplies to help vulnerable gostars_org families this afternoon (wearing a designer mask lovingly made by kgibsonrealtor)! If you are able and/or willing to donate, we are still in need of the following:
Eggs
Toilet paper
Laundry detergent
Diapers
Cleaning supplies
Coloring books
Crayons and colored pencils
Homemade masks
Contact-free drop-offs can be made on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. at 500 E. Villa Street in Pasadena.
We’re all in this together, friends.
#kindnessbeatsthevirus
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