Thrive Collective
The new “Tiger Pride” mural adorns the primary first floor hallway at MS/HS 141: Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy. Thank you, NYC Council Member Andrew Cohen and Principal O’Mara, for your continuing support. Tiger Pride The mural highlight the pride and ambitions of the Bronx school’s richly diverse student body. Students, artists, faculty, and volunteers brought this…
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The “Live Well” school mural is Thrive Collective’s second project sponsored by NeON Arts and Carnegie Hall, this time at the Betty Shabazz Campus in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The fifteen-week collaboration included students from both the Brownsville Collaborative Middle School and PS 298 who created an inspiring mural in the shared lunchroom. The mural features a…
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“Harlem Hub” depicts the individuals and larger Harlem community being cultivated at the Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub. Launched officially on February 27, 2018, students from the Hub’s Studio Arts programs designed and produced the mural with art director Kekoa, and an assist from award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown, Clorox, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus…
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Welcome to “Migration Remix,” where students from one Brooklyn high school see themselves in masterpieces by Frida Kahlo (Mexico), Johannes Vermer (Netherlands), Hokusai (Japan), Van Gogh (Netherlands), Edvard Munch (Norway), Banksy (UK), Grant Wood (USA), and Keith Haring (USA). In this collaboration with the High School of Telecommunications, Art & Technology, artists and students focused on…
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Thanks to a Cultural After School Adventures (CASA) grant from NYC Council Member Andrew Cohen, students at the Riverdale / Kingsbridge Academy (MS/HS 141) in the Bronx visualized what it means to be an RKA Tiger. Their depiction emphasizes the values and aspirations that unite the students in all of their diversity. “I was there…
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At MS 183Q, Art as Catalyst for Change funding from NYC Council Member Donovan Richards allowed us to provide 220 middle school students accredited, in-school murals classes for an entire semester. In this collaboration we focused on how students can be their best selves. The murals on the different doors of the hallways students walk…
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The “Every Journey” mural is Thrive Collective’s first collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s NeON Arts program. Betsy G., a junior at Jill Chaifetz Transfer High School, said this about its impact: “I just want to say, ‘Thank you.’ We started by making our own art, and I didn’t think mine was very good. But you kept…
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Welcome to PS 327’s “Soaring High,” made possible by NYC Council Members Darlene Mealy and Alicka Ampry-Samuel! This mural features the school’s Eagle mascot soaring through the skies of New York, along with students riding eagles and books. The mural also includes monuments from all over the world and the eagles themselves as students. Peach Tao,…
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The “Get Active” mural at MS 83X is our first official School Murals collaboration with one of New York City’s leading after school providers, New York Edge (formerly known as Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation). We look forward to future collaborations next year and beyond. MS 83X: Get Active (2018) MS 83: Production MS…
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[Video by Catherine KittyRose Warren.] The “I Am Harlem” mural celebrates Harlem past, present, and future, and features art direction by Harlem’s own Aleathia Brown. Made possible by the SAFE in Harlem Coalition and Harlem’s teens, special thanks also go out to the Pillars Recovery Center, Infinity Mennonite Church, Felecia Pullen, Rev. Al Taylor, Marissa Molina, Nico Collazo, and…
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