Thrive Collective
7habits-ribbon2 7habbits-ribbon welcome-banner3 ps279-banner welcome-banner We returned to PS 279X for the fourth consecutive year with support of the NYC Council Art a Catalyst for Change Initiative and NYC Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez. Teaching artists Lola Lovenotes and Sydney Tirado worked with two groups after school to produce two murals exploring the Seven Habits…
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7habits-ribbon2 7habbits-ribbon welcome-banner3 ps279-banner welcome-banner We returned to PS 279X for the fourth consecutive year with support of the NYC Council Art a Catalyst for Change Initiative and NYC Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez. Teaching artists Lola Lovenotes and Sydney Tirado worked with two groups after school to produce two murals exploring the Seven Habits…
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marie-curie-banner2 marie-curie-banner3 marie-curie-banner4 bienvenidos-feature The Great Reveal https://www.thrivecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240613_114140.mp4 “Curious, compassionate, committed, and courageous,” is a motto that inspires the students at Marie Curie High School everyday. While Marie Curie High School specializes in preparing students for medical professions, we embedded within a dedicated art class. There was no shortage of committed artists which ranged from…
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marie-curie-banner2 marie-curie-banner3 marie-curie-banner4 bienvenidos-feature The Great Reveal https://www.thrivecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240613_114140.mp4 “Curious, compassionate, committed, and courageous,” is a motto that inspires the students at Marie Curie High School everyday. While Marie Curie High School specializes in preparing students for medical professions, we embedded within a dedicated art class. There was no shortage of committed artists which ranged from…
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The 7th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2024. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced AI, break danced, freestyle rapped, competed at drama games and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated with Museum of the Moving Image, Black Spectrum Theatre, Speek Lyfe Movement, and…
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As the Art a Catalyst for Change provider at three schools in The Bronx and Manhattan, it was our pleasure to collaborate with the Bronx Museum in producing the 6th Annual Art a Catalyst for Change final event at the Bronx Museum on June 5, 2025. Middle school students painted murals, designed stickers, competed in…
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The 7th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2024. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced AI, break danced, freestyle rapped, competed at drama games and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated with Museum of the Moving Image, Black Spectrum Theatre, Speek Lyfe Movement, and…
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The 7th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2024. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced AI, break danced, freestyle rapped, competed at drama games and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated with Museum of the Moving Image, Black Spectrum Theatre, Speek Lyfe Movement, and…
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The “Welcome to Bay Ridge” mural by Mister Kaves celebrates the Brooklyn Way To commemorate the Brooklyn Nets’ 10th anniversary in Brooklyn, the team commissioned Thrive Collective students and artists to interpret “The Brooklyn Way” in public art murals in four Brooklyn neighborhoods: Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Flatbush, and East New York. This first collaboration…
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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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