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We returned to IS217X School of Performing Arts with three more mural projects this year starting with “Doors to Success,” a series of four exit doors. IS 217X: Doors to Success (2023) ‹ › × × Previous Next IS 217X Extreme Mural Makeover
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An interactive mural experience hosted by Thrive Collective helped basketball fans celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month when the New York Liberty played the Connecticut Sun on Saturday, May 27 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. “Light It Up,” a mural painted on the main concourse during the team’s second annual AAPI…
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Artist Cramcept returned to PS 9 to paint another set of ten interior murals. Collectively entitled “Reading Rocks,” the set features large characters, math equations, and slogans expressing the school culture. Check out last year’s PS 9 murals by Cramcept here. PS 9 Naples Street Elementary School: Reading Rocks (2023) ‹ › × × Previous…
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The theme Dr Seuss to Papoose was a loose starting point for the students to begin brainstorming ideas considering how to interpret literacy in all its forms. Through these activities they expressed their visions they had for their futures and how their educational career has shaped those futures. Leading artist Ashley “Awesum” Crawford incorporated drawings…
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Artist Vanesa Álvarez Díaz returned to PS 18 in 2023 to paint “We, The Power 2,” the continuation of last spring’s “We, the Power.” The mural is divided into two sections: one dresses a stairway while the other beautifies the landing of the sixth floor. The school already had a theme in mind for the…
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At PS 18, we came together with the absolute best kids ever to create the school’s second mural ever with us as partners. This season we were tasked with creating a mural based on the theme of Wellness/Emotions and Feelings. First, we held sessions with the kids in which we described what certain feelings are…
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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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PS 101: The Verrazano School in Brooklyn celebrated the school’s newly named kitchen “L’école Café” with a new mural by Pelumi Ayeni. PS 101 The Verrazano: L’école Café (2023) ‹ › × × Previous Next PS 101K Murals Since 2023 Murals by Pelumi Ayeni Since 2023
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3, 2, 1, … Takeoff at PS 101! Thrive Collective and Projectivity teamed to create a cosmic mural at PS 101 The Verrazzano School in Brooklyn. Lead artist Chris “Daze” Ellis skillfully created a solar system mural, including the asteroid belt, with stunning visuals of each planet and the sun. This striking masterpiece fills a…
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The theme of “exploring distant galaxies” was selected by Principal Fulerton for Phase 1 of this mural project. The mural lives in the Science Hallway at Frederick Douglass Academy. The vision is for this outerspace/galaxies design to be the background of a future mural that will showcase lots of important figures in the science history.…
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