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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)
- Human/Animal/Machine, Pt 1 (pdf)
- Human/Animal/Machine, Pt 2 (pdf)
- Natural City (pdf)
- Paper Totem Poles (pdf)
- Paper Cutout Masks (pdf)
- Perspective Drawing (pdf)
- Self Portraits (pdf)
- Stickers (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.
A bit late but finally finished a gratitude card for essential workers . And thank you extending to everyone who’s fighting for a cause they believe in .🔹 .
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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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Organizing my drawers and I still have a few of this print left ! DM if you want some summer lemonade 🙂 .
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One of my favorite maps of Inspiration hanging in my bedroom - a Map of Beijing in 1936 illustrated by Frank Dorn . He was fluent in Chinese and lived in China during Ww2 and drew maps for the US army . The decorative map was drawn with great care . Cartoon vignettes of chinese history surround the image. pretavoyager .#makeamapfieldtrip creativemorning .
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WIP on this little mural on my roof ... 95 % there ! Till the next warm day ☀️.
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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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Painting more New Yorkers for the 7pm clapping today 👏🏼. WIP shots of this mural of staying-at-home iguana and bird I’m painting on my roof 🐦 🦎.
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Old woodcut inspired by my visiting Dubai many years ago . Carving is so relaxing 😌 DM me for availability details !
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Painted this little springtime mural at home 🌸 Staying-at-home iguana and bird cheering for essential workers from the windows 🌸 .
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#thinkspacehappyplace #stayhome #brooklyn #nyc #quarantinelife #kidlitart #illustration thinkspace_art seawalls_ pangeaseed whanganuiwalls ladieswhopaint #kindnessbeatsthevirus #mayday #timein #timeoutnewyork gothamist #beautifulbizarre #peacheeblue #peachtao
The adventures of Martymar54 and the tales of WORK FROM HOME. By martymar54 #characterdesign #characterart #ipad #procreate #illustration #art #digitalart #applepencil #art #digitalart #workfromhome #workfromhomelife #work #quarantine #2020 #bunny #bunnyslippers #coffee #zoom #zoommeeting #hero #essentialworkers nycthrive #kindnessbeatsthevirus
My illustration for davidyurman jewelry’s Lunar New Year celebration is selected in american_illustration_winners ‘s 2019 annual competition online gallery . Art direction kalen.studio Last year was year of the pig , the last of a 12-year cycle . We are currently in year of the 🐀 which is the start of a new cycle , and what a crazy year it has been . .
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#illustration #advertising #advertisement #davidyurman #fashionjewelry #pig #cartoon #americanillustration #red#black#papercut #sihlouette #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #chinesezodiac #fashion #jewelry #animals #zodiacsigns #folklore #mythology #kindnessbeatsThevirus #peacheeblue
IT’S HERE! Our next free, downloadable coloring book is up on our website. Volume 3 is a collaboration with Tom Slaughter Studio to being you the late arist’s iconic alphabet! We hope you love it and remember to tag us and tslaughterstudio in your creations!
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The wondrous world of martymar54 by martymar54. Celebrating amazing artists of color and those amazing people who Inspired us all. Join me for live paint sessions along with special guests you won’t want to miss. We paint, talk and inspire. Come hangout and paint or just enjoy energy. Wednesday’s 6pm IG live martymar54 and YouTube live “growth and goals” channel. #livepaint #illustrator #illustrationartists #art #acrylicpainting #jordan #jordan1 #jordan1bred #sneakerhead #sneakers #frida #basquiat #bobross #growthandgoalsmindset #artistsoninstagram theellenshow oprah tonyrobbins #kindnessbeatsthevirus
My window-painting demo from climatecollectivenyc ‘s earthDay art workshop. With two other artists , we shared our work and backgrounds and drew inspiration from erholthaus ‘s writing on envisioning a better future 🙂 it was a very inspiring and motivating two hours well spent ! .thank you thefliang for capturing moments🎨 .
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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
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
As I’ve been talking about with some of my followers, I work with this great company called SendOutCards that’s all about sending out messages of kindness and hope into the world. I’d love for you to give SendOutCards a try to see if you like their service! You can do it for FREE. Just click in the link in my bio to send a card to anyone in the world. Let me know what you think! http://ltl.is/TpNdy
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JOIN THE JOY Of PAINTING with. MARTY ROSS 54. Live paint session Wednesday at 6pm July 8th. Paint along or just hang out and vibe. We paint , talk and create a relaxing environment for the whole family. With over 15 years as a teaching artist Marty walks us through his JOY OF PAINTING graphic By martymar54 #characterdesign #characterart #ipad #procreate #livepainting #live #paint #acrylicpainting #illustration #art #digitalart #applepencil #art #digitalart #workfromhome #workfromhomelife #work #quarantine #2020 #bunny #bunnyslippers #coffee #zoom #zoommeeting #hero #essentialworkers nycthrive remo_inc byp_bronx strivehigherny #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Keeping the school mural spirit alive ❤️. #pimentelmurals #kindnessbeatsthevirus #instadraw #artistoninstagram #muralsketch #quarantine #quarantineart #quarantineartchallenge #schoolmural #schoolmurals #heart #digitalillustration #hifructosemag #juxtapozmag #illustration
Having a little fun on Father’s Day. Impromptu freestyle with #IzzyRo lol. #coronajam #createathome #hashtag #positivevibes #family #freestyle #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Posted withregram • cmcityliving Impromptu father/daughter jam session a couple weeks ago.
This girl is SOOO her father in countless ways!
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