Thrive Collective
This is the 8th year Thrive has received the Art as Catalyst for Change Grant for PS/MS 183Q. Council member Donovan Richards awarded Thrive Collective the Anti-Gun Violence Initiative continuously over the past 6 years, and District 31’s current Council member Selvena N. Brooks-Powers has continued the tradition. For this project, Thrive has teamed with…
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This is the 8th year Thrive has received the Art as Catalyst for Change Grant for PS/MS 183Q. Council member Donovan Richards awarded Thrive Collective the Anti-Gun Violence Initiative continuously over the past 6 years, and District 31’s current Council member Selvena N. Brooks-Powers has continued the tradition. For this project, Thrive has teamed with…
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This is the 8th year Thrive has received the Art as Catalyst for Change Grant for PS/MS 183Q. Council member Donovan Richards awarded Thrive Collective the Anti-Gun Violence Initiative continuously over the past 6 years, and District 31’s current Council member Selvena N. Brooks-Powers has continued the tradition. For this project, Thrive has teamed with…
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ps-279-fruitful-banner ps279-cafeteria Our students at PS 279 wanted to take a communal area they visit daily and add some beauty to it. Half of our students, all in middle school, had worked on a previous Thrive mural in their school auditorium and were specifically selected to work on this mural with us. All of our…
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ps-279-fruitful-banner ps279-cafeteria Our students at PS 279 wanted to take a communal area they visit daily and add some beauty to it. Half of our students, all in middle school, had worked on a previous Thrive mural in their school auditorium and were specifically selected to work on this mural with us. All of our…
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The mural at Queens Prep was the byproduct of extensive collaboration with the school’s art teacher, who helped identify and recruit students for the after school program and also provided access to several of her regular classes. The students chose the theme “Through Love & Hope, Dreams Can Flow,” as they considered life beyond graduation.…
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The theme and title for this project was “The Possibilities Are Out of This World”. The theme came together from the various ideas that the students had submitted in the beginning stages of the classes. The only real prompt that we gave them during class was to keep in mind that this mural would be…
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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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Thrive Collective teamed up with Judith S. Kaye HS once again for this new project to create a mural for the teacher’s counseling office. The office is a space where students come to share their thoughts, get encouragement on anything, and mainly for those that are graduating to get prepared, making sure they’re on the…
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For this project, Thrive Collective partnered with RAIN Tolentine Senior center members to design a mural that reflects their values, their community, and what they enjoy doing. Some ideas represented in the mural are tropical plants, flowers, and birds, chalupa, bingo, dance and movement, music, and embroidery. There is also a rainbow, with small animals…
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