Thrive Collective
Thrive Collective and Projectivity have proudly supported the Boone Avenue Walls mural festival in the Bronx for the last three years. Founded by pioneering New York artist Wen Cod, the annual event brings together a who’s who of iconic graffiti writers and street artists since 2014. This year, more than 200 artists expanded the festival…
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Thrive Collective and Projectivity have proudly supported the Boone Avenue Walls mural festival in the Bronx for the last three years. Founded by pioneering New York artist Wen Cod, the annual event brings together a who’s who of iconic graffiti writers and street artists since 2014. This year, more than 200 artists expanded the festival…
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Together with the Amazin’ Mets Foundation, we’re working to spread color and creativity throughout Queens! Mets players and their family members joined Thrive teaching artists led by Peach Tao to help paint a mural that highlights the New York Mets team values of family and community. A grantee partner of the Amazin’ Mets Foundation, Thrive…
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Our friends at the Leadership Foundations asked us to facilitate an interactive art making experience at the 2025 Mentoring Youth for Leadership Summit in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We invited our Murals co-founder Sam Wisneski to lead the workshop. Over the course of three days, conference attendees completed three canvases while interpreting the theme of “City as…
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HISTORY MADE 🏆 The WNBA champion NY Liberty raised the banner and received their championship rings at their home opener on May 17. Fans celebrated with artist champion Toofly and painted a commemorative mural during the game. The canvas will be donated to a local public school in celebration of excellence in women’s sports. Toofly and Thrive…
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aoh-les-may slider3 slider2 The ninth Art of Healing Festival came to Thrive’s backyard of Dry Dock Park in the Lower East Side’s 9th Precinct on August 2, 2025. Located literally across one street from our current office and another street from our first after school location and future murals headquarters, it also adjoins our flagship…
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slider3 aoh-les-may slider2 The ninth Art of Healing Festival came to Thrive’s backyard of Dry Dock Park in the Lower East Side’s 9th Precinct on August 2, 2025. Located literally across one street from our current office and another street from our first after school location and future murals headquarters, it also adjoins our flagship…
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As the Art a Catalyst for Change provider at three schools in The Bronx and Manhattan, it was our pleasure to collaborate with the Bronx Museum in producing the 7th Annual Art a Catalyst for Change final event at the Bronx Museum on June 4, 2025. Middle school students painted murals, designed stickers, competed in…
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The 8th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2025. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced virtual reality, danced, freestyle rapped, performed a drum circle and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated with Museum of the Moving Image, Black Spectrum Theatre, Speek Lyfe Movement, and…
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harlem-week-banner harlem-week-banner2 harlem-week-banner3 Our friends at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office asked us to bring the Art of Healing Workshops to 135 Street for Harlem Week on August 17, 2025. Every year since 1974, the Harlem Day block party punctuates the festivities and brings Harlem Week to a close. This 51st annual finale featured three…
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