Thrive Collective
Dry Dock Park is quite literally Thrive Collective’s backyard. It’s across 10th Street from our office, across Avenue D from where we started as an after school program in 1996, and adjacent to our flagship school PS/MS 34 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. So when our friends and neighbors at Henry Street Settlement invited us…
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HARLEM USA 🛍 We were proud to support the launch of the One45 HARLEM 4All Community Outreach and Resource Center at the corner of 145th and Lenox Ave with a mural by Cramcept, Air Doms2, and Projectivity. All summer the NYC Love Kitchen mobile food pantry will distribute fresh produce and community resources at the site.…
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“Courageous Community” is Thrive Collective’s third mural collaboration in Dallas with Make it Count, Young Life, and Inspire School Programs, at RL Turner High School in Carrollton, for School Partners USA. The mini-documentary video was produced by students from Turner’s Academy of Media Arts and Technology. The Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District featured the mural…
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“Servant Leadership” is Thrive Collective’s second mural collaboration in Dallas with Inspire School Programs, at Trinity Leadership Charter School for School Partners USA. The video was produced by Trinity Charter School’s media program. Servant Leadership – Trinity Leadership Charter School (Dallas 2023) ‹ › × × Previous Next View this post on Instagram A post…
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This project was completed by artists, students, and volunteers from Thrive Collective’s San Diego affiliate Concrete & Canvas during the second year School Partners USA pilot project. Luis Bautista forged a partnership with Jardin de Niños “María Teresa de Calcuta” elementary school in Tijuana that included construction projects, pop-up medical clinics, and this school mural…
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On April 16, 2023, we were proud to celebrate two new murals and the soft launch of Mama Jean’s Create Hub in West Oakland with our Oakland City Coordinator De’Morea “Truck” Evans, Thrive Creative Director Kekoa, veteran teaching artist Kristen Hubbard, School Partners USA 2022 cohort members and alumni, and scores of friends and colleagues…
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On April 16, 2023, we were proud to celebrate two new murals and the soft launch of Mama Jean’s Create Hub in West Oakland with our Oakland City Coordinator De’Morea “Truck” Evans, Thrive Creative Director Kekoa, veteran teaching artist Kristen Hubbard, School Partners USA 2022 cohort members and alumni, and scores of friends and colleagues…
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Artist Andrea Amanda worked with PS 249’s CAMBDA after school students to explore the social emotional skills for “We the People” to thrive. She more fully describes the mural design in her Artist Statement: This mural is divided into three parts, each representing a key aspect of social-emotional learning. The first part, on the left…
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The theme Haven Values came from brainstorming with the students in the classroom over the kind of mark they wanted to leave behind for their school after they graduate. Many of them wanted to share their favorite parts of their community, the school’s core values and their own special interests on the wall. Leading artist…
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Loisaida is home. Thrive Collective was conceived, born, and nurtured in the Lower East Side enclave that carries this name. When our friends and neighbors at the Loisaida Center invited us to participate in their 36th annual Loisaida Festival, we jumped at the opportunity. They sweetened the invitation by asking us to lead a community…
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