Extreme Mural Makeover

PS 60: Imagine, Believe, Achieve

Thrive Collective partnered with Projectivity Group to produce a series of indoor and outdoor murals at PS 60 in Staten Island. Artists Marissa Molina and Christian Penn worked with staff and students to complete this massive, 100ft x 10ft wall in the school’s back courtyard. Staff collaborated with students to come up with a design…

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PS 60: Leadership

Thrive Collective partnered with Projectivity Group to produce a series of indoor and outdoor murals at PS 60 in Staten Island. Artist Jodi Dareal painted this collection of murals on 7 sets of interior doors, which display 14 motivational phrases from famous international icons. Students and staff selected the figures and quotes, and Jodi was…

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PS 60: View from Alice Austen

Thrive Collective partnered with Projectivity Group to produce a series of indoor and outdoor murals at PS 60 in Staten Island. For this mural, artist Josue Mendez upgraded the front entrance with a colorful homage to the school’s namesake. PS 60 is named after Alice Austen, a famous Staten Island-based photographer from the 19th and…

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PS 250: Flourishing (4 of 4)

Three iconic Brooklyn-based artists transformed the front entrance to PS 250 in this 900 sq. ft. mural project. Watch the video above to see how artists Bianca Romero, RIBS and Mister Kaves convert blank brick walls into colorful stories, and watch the video below to hear from Principal Rod Young and PS 250’s very own…

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PS 250: Welcome to PS 250 (3 of 4)

Three iconic Brooklyn-based artists transformed the front entrance to PS 250 in this 900 sq. ft. mural project. Watch the video above to see how artists Bianca Romero, RIBS and Mister Kaves convert blank brick walls into colorful stories, and watch the video below to hear from Principal Rod Young and PS 250’s very own…

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PS 250: Brooklyn, Home Sweet Home (2 of 4)

Three iconic Brooklyn-based artists transformed the front entrance to PS 250 in this 900 sq. ft. mural project. Watch the video above to see how artists Bianca Romero, RIBS and Mister Kaves convert blank brick walls into colorful stories, and watch the video below to hear from Principal Rod Young and PS 250’s very own…

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PS 250: Brooklyn, Home Sweet Home (1 of 4)

Three iconic Brooklyn-based artists transformed the front entrance to PS 250 in this 900 sq. ft. mural project. Watch the video above to see how artists Bianca Romero, RIBS and Mister Kaves convert blank brick walls into colorful stories, and watch the video below to hear from Principal Rod Young and PS 250’s very own…

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PS 89: Dream Big

PS 89 Jose Peralta, the School of Dreamers partnered with Thrive Collective to create a 12 week mural program for 4th and 5th graders to explore the theme of Dreaming Big.  Students were inspired by their own dreams of what they want to achieve as they grow as well as the diversity of the neighborhood. …

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IS 117/ TYWLS: Rich Tapestry

“Rich Tapestry” is a reflective mural on inclusion, diversity, and respect. Thrive artists Ashley Crawford and Kristy McCarthy led art lessons with over a hundred students at I.S. 117 Joseph P. Wade Academies and The Young Women’s Leadership School. Students ranging in age from 12 to 18, from junior high to high school, created pieces…

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PS/MS 183: Space to Dream

For this project, Thrive artists teamed up with students and staff from the SONYC after-school program and the Dr Richard Greene school in Far Rockaway.  In the classroom, Thrive artists and students explored concepts of: self, identity, community, what they valued, and what they wished to see in their immediate communities and in the world.…

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