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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.
💛We can no longer pretend that we don’t need love. Kids need it, parents need it, our neighbors need it…we all need it.
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil, and hold tight what is good” – St. Paul 🧨
Help spread love today.💛
👇🏼Tag someone who always shows you love.
🎨‘d @ Resonate Alley
#GodisLove #OneLove #BeKind #Kindnessbeatsthevirus #moreloveplease #morekindpeopleplease
Spread Love - Its Contagious
projectivity was able to donate this mural for the first responders across from rumc_si on Castelton Ave. Shout out to kwuemolly for the theme and inspiration and to mrtariqnyc of richmondhoodco for connecting with local businesses always making the community look amazing, and for assisting with the painting. 🖌: tekstthc
📷: mrtariqnyc
This piece fits perfectly with nycthrive #kindnessbeatsthevirus campaign. Check them out and all the amazing artists and students from around the globe helping spread love and kindness through the arts
#spreadlove
#projectivity
#projectyourself
#kindnessbeatsthevirus
#statenislandstreetart
#streetartnyc
Keeping the school mural spirit alive ❤️. #pimentelmurals #kindnessbeatsthevirus #instadraw #artistoninstagram #muralsketch #quarantine #quarantineart #quarantineartchallenge #schoolmural #schoolmurals #heart #digitalillustration #hifructosemag #juxtapozmag #illustration
My noodle shop is now open at 32 mulberry Street ( or 100 mosco street ) . The first mural of #chinatownMuralProject 🙂 organized by 1taipan .
Super Sunny day !!
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#chinesezodiac
#mural #muralist #streetart #nyc #newyorkstreets #chinatown #manhattan #newyorkcity #painting #paint #bodegacat #muralista #noodles #noodleshop #rabbit #tiger #catsofinstagram #blueandwhitechina #summervibes #supportChinatown #kindnessbeatsthevirus thinkchinatown beyondchinatown lmcc_nyc #peacheeblue #peachtaoart #peachtao #streetartnyc #nycstreetart
Completed 5th grade mural collaboration for Taft Elementary School in Washingtonville, NY. Unfortunately the kids couldn’t participate this year but they all contributed their self portrait drawings to the project. #schoolmural #schoolmurals #washingtonville #hudsonvalley #hudsonvalleymagazine #hudsonvalleyartist #mural #muralist #muralart #muralpainting #muralsdaily #kindnessbeatsthevirus #diversity #kindness #pimentelmurals #gpmuralpaints #goldenmuralpaint
Day 2 at Dover High School♥️.
#pimentelmurals #kindnessbeatsthevirus #schoolmural #muralist #mural #hudsonvalley #hudsonvalleyartist #doverplainsny #schoolmurals #heart #doverhighschool
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
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
The F train isn’t sure if they have a cold, the flu, or covid. But they’re considerate enough to not want to share whatever it is. Kindness is contagious.
***This account is not public property. Spreading misinformation will no longer be tolerated. Contrary opinions are respected, but misinformation without a shortened url to a reputable source earns a permanent ban. My house, my rules.
***I’m looking forward to hearing from all of the “constitutional scholars”.
#subwaydoodle #subway #doodle #swd #nyc #ftrain #mta #mtasubway #masks #covidmasks #covid_19 #covid #covid19 #flu #flushot #fluseason #cold #maskup #chindiaper #heroeswearmasks #maskhole #maskholes #cdc #who #covidnews #kindness #kindnessmatters #kindnessbeatsthevirus #kindnessiscontagious #herecomethetrolls
Wild style coloring book vol.2 Pretty cool to be accepted into a children's coloring book; in collaboration with other local nyc graffiti artist. Thank you nycthrive for the opportunity to be part of such an amazing project #kindnessbeatsthevirus #thrivecollective
#AbstractDanos
#GraffitiArt
#InspirationalGraffiti #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #popart #modernart #collageart #colorspectrum #colorpainting #mixedmediapainting #abstractart #Instaart #fineart #BrooklynArtist #NYCart #DLR77Art
UN LIVRE DE COLORIAGE POUR LES ENFANTS CONFINES À TÉLÉCHARGER GRATUITEMENT !! "Wildstyle Coloring Book" pour #KindnessBeatsTheVirus
Proposé par les street artistes Crash John Matos, Bio Wilfreo Feliciano et Sonic Jesse Rod, en collaboration avec la galerie d’art WallWorksNY, le livre est disponible en téléchargement GRATUIT sur le site Thrivecollective.org/kindness. 31 pages à colorier (une par jour pour le mois de mai). Avec la participation de Crey132.
Aux enfants de jouer. Donnez libre cours à votre créativité avec ces coloriages, et partagez le résultat sur les réseaux sociaux en taguant #KindnessbeatstheVirus et en identifiant les artistes (liste à retrouver dans la présentation du projet).
Completed mural collaboration at Dover High School ❤️. A big thanks to the students and staff for your support and participating in this project!
#pimentelmurals #kindnessbeatsthevirus #schoolmural #muralist #mural #hudsonvalley #hudsonvalleyartist #doverplainsny #schoolmurals #heart #dutchesscountyny #muralsofinstagram #heartmural #muralart
Completed 5th grade mural installation for Titusville Intermediate School 🐯 . To be installed later this summer. schoolmural #schoolmurals #hudsonvalley #hudsonvalleymagazine #hudsonvalleyartist #mural #muralist #muralart #muralpainting #muralsdaily #kindnessbeatsthevirus #pimentelmurals #iamsomebody
One of my *favorite* myths about the “American west” is that it was white. 1) the American west was northern Mexico 2) slavery was abolished in Mexico in 1829 (yes that makes Texas history even more fucked up) .
The “American west” was Indigenous, Black, mestizo, AND Asian.
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Ellis “Mountain Man” Harris from ”The Black Cowboy exhibition for nycthrive ・・・
"ORIGIN STORIES" Father's Day edition by studiomuseum educator nelarte for #KindnessBeatsTheVirus | Ellis “Mountain Man” Harris from “The Black Cowboy” exhibition
From November 2016 to March 2017, The Studio Museum in Harlem showcased “The Black Cowboy" exhibition curated by Amanda Hunt. Cowboy offered a snapshot of Black communities with long histories of keeping and training horses, represented primarily through photographs and cinematic materials.
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This photo of Ellis Harris was one in a series of black and white photos by Brad Trent. The portraits ran in The Village Voice, and feature members of the New York chapter of the Federation of the Black Cowboys (FBC). FBC was a New York City-based community that shares the legacy cowboy ancestors with African-American city youth through mentoring, rodeos, and school visits. A long-standing member of FBC, Harris became a cowboy after watching a black rodeo in Harlem in the 1970s.
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TO READ THE REST GO TO nycthrive
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#blackcowboy #fathersday #nycthrive #studiomuseumharlem #federationofblackcowboys #history #americanhistory #erasure
#kindnessbeatsthevirus #staysafe #coloringbook 4 #nyc #schools #stayathome #savetheplanet #savethechildren mr_boris_becker sonicbadnyc biotatscru crashone streetdreamgallery #art #graffitiart #covid #hiphop #culture #badinc #tds #basalt
The good people at bkstreetart
Wrote an article about the Native New Yorker 2020 tribute I painted on the #Newyorkcity #subwaymap
visit https://www.brooklynstreetart.com
To read all about it. 🙏🏼Thank you #bkstreetart and marthacoopergram for the love... stay Healthy Native New Yorkers!!! bkstreetart YOU’RE THE HEART AND SOUL : OLIVER RIOS CREATES TRIBUTE TO “NATIVE NEW YORKER 2020” / DISPATCH FROM ISOLATION # 57 👉👉👉Go to linkin bio to read the article AND interview 👈👈👈 oriosdesigns #oliverrios “To live in NYC you have to understand and go through the city’s everyday grind! Understanding the everyday hustle, the history, the diverse cultures, the crime, the rats, the pigeons, the parades, the clubs, the bars, the historical sites, the crowded subways, the cabs… everything.” #oriosdesigns #covid19 #kindnessbeatsthevirus 😷👍
A world without art?…
#EveryTuesdayisGivingTuesday 🙏
Our staff is committed to supporting the good in our world.🤝🌎 Every Tuesday, we feature an organization that is truly making a difference in their community.
nycthrive creates hope and opportunity through arts, sports, and mentoring in and around public schools by connecting them with artists, youth workers, and volunteers. During COVID-19, they’ve adapted their programs for online learning and have served 45 schools with their #KindnessBeatsTheVirus campaign and "Tools for Schools." Since 2011, more than 15,000 students and 3,000 volunteers have created a total of 75,000 sq. ft. of public art!🎨🖼
💬“The antidote to the taker is the giver. 2020 took so much. It also demonstrated the resilience of humanity, and a generous spirit that rises above all.” Jeremy Del Rio, Executive Director
🎭We can't imagine a world without visual or performing arts -- and neither can you. Yet our cities sentence millions of our most vulnerable students to an artless education everyday. Help them “Bring Art Back” to low-income schools! 👉Tap the link in our bio👈
A little visitor today 🐝 on my mural 🌸. .
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#mural #muralpainting #muralart #painting #quarantinelife #spring #homemural #paint #lizard #bougainvillea #flowers #bee #hornet #brooklyn #nyc #bedstuy #rooftop #illustration #ladieswhopaint #muralista #seawalls#wallart #streetartist #summer seawalls_ pangeaseed #muralist #newyorkcity #kindnessbeatsTheVirus #nycthrive #thinkspacehappyplace #acrylicpainting
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