Thrive Collective
Thrive artists teamed up with Mitchel Community Center in the Bronx during their 2022 summer program to design a yard mural. We weaved together several themes for the mural’s design, including Ancient Egypt, the center’s values (kindness, respect, equity, being a “bully-free zone”) and students’ favorite memories of growing up and attending the center. During…
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Words of gratitude, delight, and pride abounded from faculty and students alike as artist Daze transformed Frederick Douglass Academy (FDA) with a new mural outside the school entrance. Painted predominately with spray paint, the mural was completed in just two weeks! The fast transformation meant that each time students and faculty walked by the mural, there were new…
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Thrive joined forces with other community organizations in the Lower East Side to support the #SaveCasaAdela movement, which sought to protect Casa Adela, an iconic Puerto Rican restaurant founded by Adela Fargas, from a 500% rent hike. Muralist Danielle Mastrion produced this mural in support of the campaign. View this post on Instagram A post…
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This mural is a celebration of powerful women at home and abroad who have made major contributions to society. Together with students and the principal, we carefully decided this list of famous women who we wanted to depict on the wall. Included on this wall are Ruth Ginsburg, Malala Yousafzai, empress Wu Zeitan, Yayoi Kusama,…
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“Be Kind” is a project that Thrive Collective, PS 889 students and faculty came together to create in their very own courtyard, where the kids played. For the theme of this mural, the principal Ms.Militello and the social worker Judy, wanted us to create a mural with the students that encouraged diversity and kindness. With…
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SBCCHS asks its students to “Skill up. Design your future. Be EPIC.” We explored Afrofuturism, imagining a tomorrow built on the foundation of today. The mural wall is divided in two by a column. The left side represents the vibrant present-day urban landscape students call home—buildings along the Grand Concourse, Yankee stadium, a tiger to…
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Painted on canvas, this mural was produced by art elective and after-school program students at the home of the jaguars: PS/MS 34. All elements and characters displayed on the 90 sq. ft. canvas came from student ideas and sketches. In this mural, we see a jaguar—the school’s mascot—growing in a concrete jungle and leaving its…
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The Extreme Mural Makeover of Is 217X: School of Performing Arts began in 2022 with “Metamorphosis” by Andre Trenier. This project was sponsored by Bronx Connect in collaboration with their Youth Empowerment Network programs at the school. ‹ › × × Previous Next IS 217X: Extreme Mural Makeover Mural Collaborations with Bronx Connect Murals by…
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“Los Pilares de Cambio”, The Pillars of Change, is a deep dive and homage to some of the many leaders of Afro-latino communities placed in the front of the schools’ building. Thrive Collective artists, Ashley and Plushie collaborated with two schools, P.S.155 and Renaissance School of the Arts to create this impactful piece to inspire…
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Artist Giannina Gutierrez collaborated with Youth Empowerment Network students at MS 363 to produce the “Lions’ Den” mural in the school’s lunchroom for BronxConnect. ‹ › × × Previous Next Mural Collaborations with Bronx Connect Murals by Gia Gutierrez
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