Thrive Collective
From March to April 2024, Projectivity Director Christian Penn met with youth ages 7-11 from the SOME DC Liz Donahue House in Northwest DC to donate a mural to the community room. Students imagined using the space for celebration, taking pictures, playing video games, tutoring and learning, doing art and they all loved sports. They suggested including…
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“Winter Wonderland” represents another collaboration with our flagship Harlem partners, the Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub. Designed by Plushie, Thrive teaching artists facilitated production during the annual Holiday Lights festivities outside the Adam Clayton Powell building on 125th Street. The design captures a festive scene of friends and family coming together with holiday joy and enchantment. LRYOH:…
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Mural Program Director Marissa Molina designed and produced this mural for Loisaida, Inc. (also known as The Loisaida Center), a community-based organization in Lower Manhattan empowering low-income Latino residents through a variety of multidisciplinary programs and initiatives. Read more about The Loisaida Center here. As Marissa notes in the video above, Thrive Collective and The…
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“Blessed Community” is an homage to the work done by members of RTG (Release the Grip); they service communities within high risk areas of gun violence as visual pillars of change. This mural featured three vignettes that depict the nature of what RTG is to represent. From left to right, RTG is present to console…
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Artist Pips worked with BronxConnect community members and participants of RTG North to create “Da Bronx” mural for their community center. Each participant of the program has strong ties with the community, so they felt it made sense to create something meaningful to them on a deeper level in which in letter of the mural…
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“Good Music” celebrates the installation of a music studio at BronxConnect’s RTG North site. It features a quote from legendary reggae music artist Bob Marley which reads, “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” Across from that is a painting of a young boy seamlessly surfing piano keys whilst…
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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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Artist Marissa Molina collaborated with students from BronxConnect’s Youth Empowerment Network to design and install a canvas mural at their flagship location on 149th Street in the Bronx. Bronx Connect Headquarters (2022) ‹ › × × Previous Next Mural Collaborations with BronxConnect 0 Frederick Douglass Academy V. Middle School and P.S. 057 Crescent: Larger than…
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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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Shoot for the stars and dream big, New York!💫 East Harlem has big some hopes for the city especially as we move forward in these pandemic times. This project showed us how bright of a future awaits this city and that our time together was part of building that future. Thank you to the community…
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