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Edition Times Square: Authenticity

Passion Enchantment Sophistication Authenticity On February 13th, we delivered four mixed media canvases to the brand new, luxury Edition Times Square hotel celebrating the hotel’s core values of Passion, Enchantment, Sophistication, and Authenticity. Staff helped paint the canvases on Friday, February 8th, by interpreting those values during their pre-launch staff training event. The canvases, art directed…

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Edition Times Square: Sophistication

Passion Enchantment Sophistication Authenticity On February 13th, we delivered four mixed media canvases to the brand new, luxury Edition Times Square hotel celebrating the hotel’s core values of Passion, Enchantment, Sophistication, and Authenticity. Staff helped paint the canvases on Friday, February 8th, by interpreting those values during their pre-launch staff training event. The canvases, art directed…

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Advancing Together

We are grateful to the Minority Corporate Council Association for inviting Thrive Collective to create a live painting for auction at their Advancing Together Diversity Gala at the American Museum of Natural History on October 3, 2018. Lead artist Kekoa, together with Kristen Leung, masterfully completed the canvas in 1.5 hours, and showcased it below…

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AC hotel times square beautifully painting

Beautifully

“Thank you @nycthrive for this wonderful piece. Our collaboration means a lot to us and we are humbled by it.” – AC Hotels Times Square “If you can take the time to do something, you can take the time to do it beautifully.” This AC Hotels mantra inspired the “Beautifully” installation at our newest corporate…

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Mexico and Puerto Rico united

Unidos

Actress Lauren Velez and Jeremy Del Rio, united in support of Puerto Rico and Mexico. Unidos, by Marissa Molina, celebrates the resilience of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans recovering from Hurricane Maria and the Mexico City earthquakes, and our solidarity with them during the recovery. The image features characters from the Legacy mural (2014) at the…

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Dance. Thrive. Chill. x Burton NYC (2017)

Video by Vladimir Goroshnikov (Facebook). Music by Finsta Bundy (Facebook / Soundcloud). To celebrate the new school year, the Burton Flagship store in Soho sponsored an evening of creative expression and youth empowerment on September 7, 2017. Three organizations that create positive impact for the youth of New York City joined forces in an event about movement, marks of…

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Holidays Thrive

NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray helps paint the Holidays Thrive mural with actor Dennis O’hare and artists from Thrive Collective at Union Square Park on December 12th, where we helped celebrate the City’s NYC Well campaign. Holidays Thrive ‹ › × × Previous Next

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NYWC: Arise

Youth Specialties featured the work of Thrive Collective at their 2016 National Youth Workers Convention in Cincinnati (Nov. 17-20, 2016). More than 3,000 youth workers from around the country heard the #BringArtBack story from the main stage, experienced it in the collaborative production of the Arise mural throughout the conference, and watched this moving documentary…

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Love and Serve

Thrive Collective joined NY CityServe at the Movement Day Global Cities conference at the Jacob Javits Center on October 25-27, 2016. Friends from all over the world helped us create a collaborative mural by answering a simple question: “How should we love and serve our cities?” When the art installation was completed, it served as…

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