Thrive Collective
Thrive Collective proudly partnered with La Borinqueña and Chocobar Cortés BX to produce a mural celebrating Puerto Rico’s unique role shaping culture in New York City and beyond. Here’s how the producers of the La Borinqueña comic book describe the project: Our latest collaboration with Chocolate Cortés is our La Borinqueña mural at the Chocobar Cortés BX! This public art piece…
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In a return to origins, Thrive Collective will soon move its offices into the ground floor of 152 Avenue D, the meeting site of its predecessor—a youth group named Generation Xcel. “Hope and Opportunity” is the first in a series of murals that Thrive artists will paint on all sides of the NYCHA Riis Houses…
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“Peace in the Park,” an anti-violence mural created by Projectivity and Thrive Collective, was recently featured on a Staten Island news site. The mural, which covers more than 200 feet of wall at Rev. Dr. Maggie Howard Park in Staten Island’s Stapleton neighborhood, was funded in part by the Staten Island Foundation and the New…
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Sample Text The “Together We Win” mural by Marissa Molina and Plushie for PS 158 in East New York features civil rights luminaries Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks, and Cesar Chavez. Inspired by the school’s slogan — “Stepping into the future, together we win” — the mural celebrates where we have been, where we…
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The 7 Healthy Habits Series Thrive Collective artists painted a series of 15 murals at PS 78 in the Bronx based on the book The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey. The seven habits are: Be Proactive Begin With the End in Mind Put First Things First Think Win-Win Think First to Understand,…
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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 October of 2022, Bedford-Stuyvesant held its first-ever mural festival. Entitled “BedStuy Walls,” the festival invited artists to spray a long stretch of wall on Lexington Avenue belonging to a warehouse. Veteran Thrive teaching artist and art director Michela Muserra founded Bed-Stuy Walls alongside art curator Frankie Velez. Wanting to include Thrive in the festival, Michela…
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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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Three 18-wheelers that were brought to the Coney Island Gospel Assembly in 2012 for Hurricane Sandy relief never left the parking lot. So 9 years after the storm, Thrive did the only reasonable thing that an arts organization specializing in murals would do if it had 18-wheelers lying around. That’s right: we gave them a…
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Three 18-wheelers that were brought to the Coney Island Gospel Assembly in 2012 for Hurricane Sandy relief never left the parking lot. So 9 years after the storm, Thrive did the only reasonable thing that an arts organization specializing in murals would do if it had 18-wheelers lying around. That’s right: we gave them a…
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