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Bronx Proud: Claremont Community Art Walk (2 of 4)

Our friends at Bronx Connect / RTG South sought to enliven the Claremont Community Houses alleyway between College and Findlay Avenues with color and positive imagery. They transformed the alley, a popular shortcut right outside their office, into the Claremont Community Art Walk. The organization also wanted to create a place of respite, so they…

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Cultivate: Claremont Community Art Walk (3 of 4)

Our friends at Bronx Connect / RTG South sought to enliven the Claremont Community Houses alleyway between College and Findlay Avenues with color and positive imagery. They transformed the alley, a popular shortcut right outside their office, into the Claremont Community Art Walk. The organization also wanted to create a place of respite, so they…

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Play: Claremont Community Art Walk (4 of 4)

Our friends at Bronx Connect / RTG South sought to enliven the Claremont Community Houses alleyway between College and Findlay Avenues with color and positive imagery. They transformed the alley, a popular shortcut right outside their office, into the Claremont Community Art Walk. The organization also wanted to create a place of respite, so they…

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Mitchel Community Center: Memories at Mitchel

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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Frederick Douglass Academy HS: FDA Pride

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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Casa Adela Restaurant: Save Casa Adela

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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Horizon Juvenile Center: Jungle of Hopes

The goal of this mural was to provide a hopeful and peaceful addition to the walls of the chapel inside Horizon Juvenile Center. We were tasked to work with the residents of J. Hall, and teaching artist Peach Tao asked them questions such as, “What makes you feel at peace?” and “What animal would you…

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IS 259 William McKinley: Sheros

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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PS 889: Be Kind

“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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South Bronx Community Charter High School: Design Your Future

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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