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Artist Marissa Molina collaborated with students from BronxConnect’s Youth Empowerment Network to design and install a canvas mural at their flagship location on 149th Street in the Bronx. Bronx Connect Headquarters (2022) ‹ › × × Previous Next Mural Collaborations with BronxConnect Murals by Marissa Molina
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Students conceived the design for this Beautify NYC mural project in East Harlem. The title they chose, “The Other Side of Me,” is a gesture to the various personality traits that each student possesses but does not immediately show. The mural’s colorful characters and settings represent the many sides to the students’ personalities, as well…
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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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In our continuing partnership with P.S. 280, we had the bold task of transforming the school yard from plain asphalt to a colorful and playful wonderland for all of the students to enjoy for recess. The many playground games’ looks were inspired by imagery from the many murals Thrive Collective has had the pleasure of…
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PS 13 is a school that embraces the arts and how much those creative outlets are critical in life and academics. For the spring of 2022, PS 13 contracted Thrive Collective for an intensive mural painting program. The theme celebrates Roberto Clemente, whom the school is named after, cultural diversity, and aspirations for the future…
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To help commemorate the 2021 Holiday Lights Festival in Harlem, Thrive Collective was called upon by the Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub to help beautify the street corner between 125th and 126th street on Frederick Douglass Avenue. The 250 sq. ft. mural was completed over a course of two days and was designed to represent…
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For this project we teamed up with Ascendant Neighborhood Development to beautify a local apartment building on 116th between Pleasant Ave and 1st Ave through the Beautify NYC Program. Local youth from the area wanted to focus on showcasing the diversity, beautiful culture and energy of Harlem and Spanish Harlem where the building is located.…
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Closing out the Hip Hop in NYC Concert Series, our last night of Homecoming was in Queens and they took us all the way home. With a show like no other, Forest Hills Stadium was filled with the high energy needed for a finale. A lineup of visual queens fit for the county of Queens👑…
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Who is the Forest Avenue Campus? From its early Hip Hop and Graffiti legends to its current students and the future they hold, P.S. 17X is here to tell us — THIS IS US. On a four school campus and in a neighborhood with a rich creative history, our students created a unifying message evident…
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Wave of Kindness 🌊 Encouraging the school’s new message of “Sharing Hope, Our Experiences, and Stories,” students shared with us some of their favorite pastimes both individually and collectively. With our team, they were able to collaborate on showing PS 105Q’s vision to connect, grow and inspire hope through various snapshots of their school. In…
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