Thrive Collective
Four classes totaling approximately 100 fourth and fifth grade students collaborated with artist May Bukowski to design and paint, “Your Mind is a Garden” at Chelsea Preparatory Academy this spring. The mural explores themes of community and inclusivity based on the school’s vision of nurturing individual identities, academic and personal growth while fostering a sense…
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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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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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harlem-week-banner2 harlem-week-banner 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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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 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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star-academy-banner star-academy-feature2 star-academy-feature3 Artist May Bukowski and students from Star Academy celebrate the cultural diversity of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, including artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. The principal wanted to highlight the artists, culture, and beauty that makes up the community, drawing inspiration from local artists, music, clothing, and colorful dancing. Even a representation…
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Our longtime friends and collaborators from Loisaida Center and LES CommUNITY Concerns recommended three Thrive Collective affiliated artists for the inaugural murals at the corner of 12C Outdoor Gallery on 12th Street and Avenue C, curated by Galinsky. Completed in the spring of 2024, the collection honors the neighborhood’s deep cultural connection to Puerto Rico,…
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