
Marissa Molina
Murals Program DirectorMurals Program Director
Marissa Molina first came to Thrive Collective as a graduate student to volunteer on “Coney Island’s Resilience” mural for the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy in 2013. After “Resilience,” Thrive Collective transformed its collaborative school murals projects into classroom experiences in 2014. We hired Marissa as one of our first teaching artists the following school year, and she’s never looked back. Marissa holds a BA in Departmental Art Honors and World History from University at Albany, SUNY (2010) along with her MFA in Studio Art from The City College of New York, CUNY (2014). In her spare time, she also teaches martial arts and coaches soccer.
Artistically, Marissa’s specialty is interactive, interdisciplinary installations that amplify people’s personalities with objects in garishly vibrant worlds. Her fascination with humanity’s tumultuous relationship with possessions stems from growing up with a father who rose out of extreme poverty in El Salvador and worked in various positions in the sanitation field after immigrating to the New York. Nurtured by Marissa’s extensive traveling and volunteer experiences abroad, social interactions, and multicultural interests, her works explore the convergence of objects and identity and the disposability of different parts of our lives.
Murals Portfolio

CHARAS/El Bohio Community Center: El Bohio Murals (4 of 9)
Community Mural (Manhattan 2023) More Details
Bed-Stuy Walls Series: Cousins
Intensive (Brooklyn 2023) More Details
Loisaida Center: Loisaida
Community Mural (Manhattan 2022) More Details
Coney Island Gospel Assembly: Faith, Hope, and Love (Compiled)
Community Mural (Brooklyn 2022) More Details
Coney Island Gospel Assembly: Faith, Hope, and Love
Community Mural (Brooklyn 2022) More Details
BronxConnect Headquarters: Bronx Connect
Corporate Mural (Bronx 2022) More Details
NeON Arts East 101st Street: The Other Side of Me
Community Mural (Manhattan 2022) More Details
PS 60: Imagine Believe Achieve (3 of 3)
School Mural (Staten Island 2022) More Details
PS 280Q: Lionhearts
School Mural (Queens 2021) More Details
PS 13: Embrace Life
Intensive (Brooklyn 2022) More Details
LRYOH: Holiday Lights
Event Mural (Manhattan 2021) More Details
Beautify NYC East 116th Street: The Inside Look
Community Mural (Manhattan 2021) More Details
NYC Homecoming Week: Made You Look
Event Mural (Queens 2021) More Details
PS X017: This Is Us
Summer Rising (The Bronx 2021) More Details
PS 105Q: Wave of Kindness
Summer Rising (Queens 2021) More Details
Pelham Gardens Middle School
School Mural (The Bronx 2021) More Details
PS 42Q: A Train of Thought
School Mural (Queens 2021) More Details
Union Settlement: Dreams for NYC
Community Mural (Manhattan 2021) More Details
PS 155Q: Harmony
School Mural (Queens 2021) More Details
RSA: East Harlem Creates
School Mural (Manhattan 2021) More Details
BHSIS: For One and All
Intensive (Brooklyn 2020) More Details
Clemente: Arte Pa’Mi Gente
Summer Intensive (Manhattan 2020) More Details
PS 155M: New York Strong
Intensive (Manhattan 2020) More Details
PS/MS 42Q: Tree of Peace
After-School (Queens 2020) More Details
EHMH: Hope and Opportunity
Corporate (Manhattan 2020) More Details
Black Lives Matter: A+
Summer Intensive (Manhattan 2020) More Details
NYCHA Stapleton: Flowers of Our People
Intensive (Staten Island 2020) More Details
PS 188: Spongebob / Islanders Dive Deeper
Fall Intensive (Manhattan 2019) More Details
PS 280Q: You Belong Here
Fall Intensive (Queens 2019) More Details
Jamaica: Tree of Life
Summer Intensive (Queens 2019) More Details
Thoughts and Prayers
Event Mural (Manhattan 2019) More Details
PS 102: Welcome Refresh
Summer Intensive (Brooklyn 2019) More Details
Mayor’s Fund 25th Anniversary Gala
Spring Intensive (Manhattan 2019) More Details
MS 183Q: Yes I Can
In-Class & Weekends (Queens 2019) More Details
PS/MS 42Q: Anything is Possible
In-Class & Weekends (Queens 2019) More Details
BCMS/PS 298: Live Well
In-Class and After School (Brooklyn 2019) More Details
Make Space for the Arts
Summer Intensive (Bronx 2018) More Details
Bring Art Back – Mott Haven Collection
Summer Intensive (Bronx 2018) More Details
For One and All
Studio Arts (Manhattan 2018) More Details
MS/HS 141: One Tiger, Many Stripes
After School (Bronx 2018) More Details
MS 183Q: Your Best Self
In-Class (Queens 2018) More Details
MS 42Q: Choose Kindness
In-Class & Weekends (Queens 2018) More Details
Jill Chaifetz High School: Every Journey
In-Class and After School (Bronx 2018) More Details
MS 83X: Get Active
After School (Bronx 2018) More Details
I Am Harlem: Past, Present, Future
After School & Intensive (2017) More Details
Creator
Event Mural (Manhattan 2017) More Details
Unidos
Event Mural (2017) More Details
Create! Harlem
Summer Intensive (Manhattan 2017) More Details
Rising Stars by the Sea
In-Class & Weekends (Queens 2017) More Details
MS 42Q: Love Well
In-Class & Weekends (Queens 2017) More Details
MS 42Q: Keep Calm Move On (2016)
Elective, After-School & Weekend (Queens 2016) More Details
MS 42Q: Arverne, Dream Big
Elective, After-School & Weekend (Queens 2016) More Details
MS 183Q: I Am the Rockaways
Accredited Elective (Queens 2016) More DetailsMarissa Maven






