Thrive Collective
For this project, we paired up with NeON Arts, a wonderful organization that provides art programs and creative activities to young people throughout New York City. Kadeem Phillip lead as Teaching Artist and Will DeNatale took on the role of Project Manager. They found that the creative ideation process between the students, staff and community…
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PS 13 is a school that embraces the arts and how much those creative outlets are critical in life and academics. For the spring of 2022, PS 13 contracted Thrive Collective for an intensive mural painting program. The theme celebrates Roberto Clemente, whom the school is named after, cultural diversity, and aspirations for the future…
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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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ps279-pt1 ps279-pt2 “D is 4 Diversity” is a series of auditorium murals that explore cultural diversity and creating community within PS 279. This is the second year Councilmember Fernando Cabrera funded an Art as Catalyst for Change mural program for PS 279. Through this funding, students got to focus on creating a positive and energetic…
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“Rich Tapestry” is a reflective mural on inclusion, diversity, and respect. Thrive artists Ashley Crawford and Kristy McCarthy led art lessons with over a hundred students at I.S. 117 Joseph P. Wade Academies and The Young Women’s Leadership School. Students ranging in age from 12 to 18, from junior high to high school, created pieces…
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This mural was designed and created in partnership with the students and staff at PS/ IS 30 -the Mary White Ovington School located in Bay Ridge. Residing on the first floor in the Dual Language Hallway, the mural has been inspired by PS/IS 30’s diverse student population- with many of the students being immigrants or…
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For the main entranceway of PS 329 the Surfside School, artist Peach Tao and the students involved helped to create an energetic and inspirational portal in and out of the school, welcoming all those who enter into Coney Island’s best-kept secret. The three walls include imagery of students creating and playing in and around a…
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The theme for the mural, “Weaving the World,” aptly describes the school’s Blue Ribbon celebration. The community’s interwoven support for one another was apparent as students, teachers, principals, council members, parents, staff, school partners, and supporters all gathered to share in the joyous recognition of their exemplary school community. Participating students from 4th and 5th grade…
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Proper representation of people who are from different communities regardless of race, religion or orientation is important in the climate of today’s society and the ever-changing view of self. As people become more in touch with who they are, fair representation should be displayed throughout all forms of media. The idea behind this mural is…
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For this project, Thrive artists teamed up with students and staff from the SONYC after-school program and the Dr Richard Greene school in Far Rockaway. In the classroom, Thrive artists and students explored concepts of: self, identity, community, what they valued, and what they wished to see in their immediate communities and in the world.…
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