Thrive Collective
Frank McCourt High School, located in the Brandeis Campus on West 84th street, sits a few blocks from Central Park. The school is named after Francis McCourt, writer, teacher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Veteran teaching artist Nico Collazo worked with students to interpret the theme, “Inspire Growth Daily,” by focusing on collaboration, self awareness, and…
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Veteran Thrive artist Nico Collazo collaborated with students from the BedStuy NeON, Neighbors in Action, and Save our Streets Brooklyn to produce a polytab mural tribute to “The Rhythm of Bed Stuy.” The work was featured at Carnegie Hall for their Spring 2024 NeON Arts festival. Bed Stuy NeON: SOS Brooklyn (2024) ‹ › ×…
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For the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop, veteran Thrive artist Nico Collazo partnered with Martha Diaz of the Hip Hop Education Center to inaugurate the 161 Studio at the Bronx NeON (Neighborhood Opportunity Network) with a graffiti inspired mural. Bronx NeON: 161 Studio (2023) ‹ › × × Previous Next NeON Mural Collaborations Since 2018…
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Shaolin Comin’ at Ya 💥 The Hip Hop 50 Staten Island Block Party with Summer Stage x Maker Park Radio x Richmond Hood Co. On August 11, Thrive Collective and Projectivity proudly presented live art murals at the Summer Stage concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop in Staten Island. Shaolin’s finest produced nine…
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Over the course of 16 weeks we collaborated on a mural with a group of high school students from the Next Steps after school program located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. The mural itself was painted on the eastern wall of Roberto Clemente elementary school, otherwise known as PS 13. Prior to…
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Twenty-nine students from IS 117’s after-school art club met with Thrive staff twice a week for 15 weeks to produce this 600 sq. ft. middle school mural. Participating students were in the 6th, 7th and 8th grade. This mural is designed to encapsulate the raw energy of the students both already present & future. From…
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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. Artist Michela Muserra, who has worked with Thrive for several years, founded Bed-Stuy Walls alongside art curator Frankie Velez. Wanting to include Thrive in…
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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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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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