Thrive Collective
In late 2022, Thrive partnered with community organizations in the Lower East Side to paint a stretch of wall belonging to an abandoned school building on East 10th Street. The mural project was in homage to CHARAS, an iconic community organization that had moved into the abandoned building in 1979. There, they established “El Bohio”…
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In late 2022, Thrive partnered with community organizations in the Lower East Side to paint a stretch of wall belonging to an abandoned school building on East 10th Street. The mural project was in homage to CHARAS, an iconic community organization that had moved into the abandoned building in 1979. There, they established “El Bohio”…
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In late 2022, Thrive partnered with community organizations in the Lower East Side to paint a stretch of wall belonging to an abandoned school building on East 10th Street. The mural project was in homage to CHARAS, an iconic community organization that had moved into the abandoned building in 1979. There, they established “El Bohio”…
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In late 2022, Thrive partnered with community organizations in the Lower East Side to paint a stretch of wall belonging to an abandoned school building on East 10th Street. The mural project was in homage to CHARAS, an iconic community organization that had moved into the abandoned building in 1979. There, they established “El Bohio”…
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In late 2022, Thrive partnered with community organizations in the Lower East Side to paint a stretch of wall belonging to an abandoned school building on East 10th Street. The mural project was in homage to CHARAS, an iconic community organization that had moved into the abandoned building in 1979. There, they established “El Bohio”…
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Mural Program Director Marissa Molina designed and produced this mural for Loisaida, Inc. (also known as The Loisaida Center), a community-based organization in Lower Manhattan empowering low-income Latino residents through a variety of multidisciplinary programs and initiatives. Read more about The Loisaida Center here. As Marissa notes in the video above, Thrive Collective and The…
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Thrive Collective teamed up with Judith S. Kaye HS once again for this new project to create a mural for the teacher’s counseling office. The office is a space where students come to share their thoughts, get encouragement on anything, and mainly for those that are graduating to get prepared, making sure they’re on the…
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“Ascend,” by Andre Trenier, is Thrive Collective’s third mural production and fourth collaboration with East Harlem affordable and supportive housing provider Ascendant Neighborhood Development Corporation. Artist Statement “My concept for the mural started with the idea of ascend or ascending. I wanted to illustrate the feeling of rising above. My goal is to bring bright…
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“Love Where You Live” is the title of this mural, which we completed in collaboration with a group of youth in Harlem in September of 2022 during one of the Community Programs at the Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub. We started the program with some in-class sessions that focused on the question, “Why do you…
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Words of gratitude, delight, and pride abounded from faculty and students alike as artist Daze transformed Frederick Douglass Academy (FDA) with a new mural outside the school entrance. Painted predominately with spray paint, the mural was completed in just two weeks! The fast transformation meant that each time students and faculty walked by the mural, there were new…
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