Thrive Collective
Our friends at Chinese American Planning Council asked us to facilitate an interactive art making experience around the theme of Solidarity at the 2024 SOMOS Conference in Puerto Rico. We invited our affiliated artists from Puerto Rico Tsvetana Dondero and Gabriel Abast to lead the workshop. Over the course of three days, conference attendees completed…
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BROOKLYN, USA 🛍 Our friends at Kings Plaza invited us to expand to the selfie wall with a second installation, this time by veteran Murals Art Director Marissa Molina. Kings Plaza Public Art Murals by Marissa Molina
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Artist Shawn McArthur led a four-week sneaker design workshop for Projectivity at the Carter Center in NYCHA Stapleton Houses, in collaboration with the 127 Penn NYPD Community Center. Contact us to learn about Projectivity’s youth art programs in Staten Island and the Washington, DC Metro area. “The Staten Island YSD team partnered with the organization…
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Projectivity noticed a need on Staten Island for more muralists. There is an abundance of artists, but not many muralists so Jodi Dareal set out to find and train new ones. After putting calls out for applications, we confirmed a list of 6 artists that participated in the mural training program. This was hosted in…
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Thrive Collective proudly supports the BedStuy Walls, in the heart of historic Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Founded by veteran Thrive artist Michela Muserra and art curator Frankie Velez in 2022, the annual mural festival brings together a who’s who of iconic graffiti writers and street artists along Lexington Avenue, at the intersection of “Do the Right…
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These two murals – Choose Joy and Create Memories – hit a little differently. What we now call Thrive Collective started as an after-school and summer camp in NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses in 1996. Generation Xcel was co-founded by 13 teens from the Lower East Side and a then 21 year old Jeremy Del Rio in…
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These two murals – Choose Joy and Create Memories – hit a little differently. What we now call Thrive Collective started as an after-school and summer camp in NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses in 1996. Generation Xcel was co-founded by 13 teens from the Lower East Side and a then 21 year old Jeremy Del Rio in…
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Thrive Collective proudly supports the Boone Avenue Walls mural festival in the Bronx. Founded by pioneering New York artist Wen Cod, the annual event brings together a who’s who of iconic graffiti writers and street artists in the Mott Haven and West Farms neighborhoods. This year, more than 160 artists participated in the festival’s tenth…
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Thrive Collective returned to our flagship school PS/MS 34 in collaboration with University Settlement’s SONYC after school program to design and produce the “I AM” mural with middle school students. We painted the mural on polytab for installation in the schoolyard after exterior school construction finishes in the summer of 2025. (Final photos of installed…
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New York Edge commissioned Thrive Collective to imagine the future of urbanism for the MS 61 auditorium. Artist Vince Ballantine rose to the challenge with a three-panel, futuristic urban landscape design that also features the school’s Cougar mascot and school colors, green and yellow. The auditorium is used by the school and also the community…
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