Thrive Collective
In Loving Memory of Sally Sasz In Memoriam In 2018, Thrive Collective interns and rising college sophomores, Sally Sasz and Chloe Pitkoff were challenged to design and paint a white board mural for the Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub conference room in Harlem. This is the result. All white surfaces were painted with erasable white…
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Our students create with the best. The legendary TATS Cru crushed it with students from JHS 123 / The Bronx Urban Community Magnet School in Soundview, where they grew up and started making murals in the early 1980s. Thank you BIO, Nicer, and BG183 for embracing our students and the opportunity to elevate their sense of…
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“Bronx Legacy” explores both the cultural legacy of The Bronx and its contributions to science and technology through iconic institutions such as: the NYC Botanical Gardens (botany), The Bronx Zoo (zoology), the revitalization of the Bronx River (ecology), and Yankee Stadium and borough bridges (engineering and architecture). We once again had the pleasure of collaborating…
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“Harlem Hub” depicts the individuals and larger Harlem community being cultivated at the Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub. Launched officially on February 27, 2018, students from the Hub’s Studio Arts programs designed and produced the mural with art director Kekoa, and an assist from award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown, Clorox, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus…
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Welcome to “Migration Remix,” where students from one Brooklyn high school see themselves in masterpieces by Frida Kahlo (Mexico), Johannes Vermer (Netherlands), Hokusai (Japan), Van Gogh (Netherlands), Edvard Munch (Norway), Banksy (UK), Grant Wood (USA), and Keith Haring (USA). In this collaboration with the High School of Telecommunications, Art & Technology, artists and students focused on…
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Three schools at Walton Campus in the Bronx collaborated to celebrate the cultural diversity on campus in “The World We Make”: Kingsbridge International Academy, International School for Liberal Arts (ISLA), and Teaching Arts and Professions HS. Nearly 200 students (six classes) with roots in South and Central America, the Carribbean, Africa, and the Middle East led the effort,…
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Welcome to “See Yourself in the Story,” a collaboration between Thrive and PS 185 that aimed to reimagine classic characters so that they represented the more diverse community of Bay Ridge. Made possible by NYC Council Member Vincent Gentile and the Cultural Immigrant Initiative, the mural is for all of the different people who now call…
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Thanks to a Cultural After School Adventures (CASA) grant from NYC Council Member Andrew Cohen, students at the Riverdale / Kingsbridge Academy (MS/HS 141) in the Bronx visualized what it means to be an RKA Tiger. Their depiction emphasizes the values and aspirations that unite the students in all of their diversity. “I was there…
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At MS 183Q, Art as Catalyst for Change funding from NYC Council Member Donovan Richards allowed us to provide 220 middle school students accredited, in-school murals classes for an entire semester. In this collaboration we focused on how students can be their best selves. The murals on the different doors of the hallways students walk…
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“Choose Kindness” completes a three-year efforts to wrap the PS/MS 42 courtyard with School Murals, together with: “Keep Calm Move On” (2016) “Arverne, Dream Big” (2016) “Love Well” (2017) Once again, Art as Catalyst for Change funding from NYC Council Member Donovan Richards allowed us to: Provide 200 middle school students accredited, in-school Murals and Media…
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