Elementary School

PS 354Q: Let’s Collaborate!

Artist Toofly returned to PS 354 in Jamaica, Queens, to help make over two elementary school hallways with “Mindfulness” and “Let’s Collaborate” murals. This is Thrive Collective’s third year collaborating with the school, and Toofly’s second. PS 354Q: Let’s Collaborate & Mindfulness (2025) ‹ › × × Previous Next PS 354Q Murals Since 2022 Murals…

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PS 354Q: Mindfulness

Artist Toofly returned to PS 354 in Jamaica, Queens, to help make over two elementary school hallways with “Mindfulness” and “Let’s Collaborate” murals. This is Thrive Collective’s third year collaborating with the school, and Toofly’s second. PS 354Q: Let’s Collaborate & Mindfulness (2025) ‹ › × × Previous Next PS 354Q Murals Since 2022 Murals…

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PS 44: We Are Eagles

For the fifth year in a row, Projectivity was awarded the CASA grant by the local City Council Member Kamillah Hanks to complete afterschool art programming culminating in the “We Are Eagles” mural in the courtyard at PS 44.  Artist Jodi Dareal worked with 4th and 5th grade students to highlight the kinds of events…

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PS 56Q: GRIT Basketball Court

In Spring 2024, the Arts Office of the NYC Department of Education selected Thrive Collective and our partners Projectivity and JM Custom Studios, to makeover three public school basketball courts in The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. This schoolyard basketball court mural at PS 56 in Richmond Hill, Queens, was designed by iconic artists Queen…

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BHSVA: PROSPER Basketball Court

In Spring 2024, the Arts Office of the NYC Department of Education selected Thrive Collective and our partners Projectivity and JM Custom Studios, to makeover three public school basketball courts in The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. This schoolyard basketball court mural at Bronx High School for Visual Arts, was designed by iconic artists and…

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PS 60: Civil Rights

Projectivity and Thrive Collective returned to PS 60 The Alice Austen School in the Summer of 2024 to complete Phase Two of their extreme mural makeover, with three more full hallway productions.  Curated by Projectivity Director Christian Penn, three teams of artists each completed over 1,200 square feet of murals for different areas of the…

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PS 60: World Monuments

Projectivity and Thrive Collective returned to PS 60 The Alice Austen School in the Summer of 2024 to complete Phase Two of their extreme mural makeover, with three more full hallway productions.  Curated by Projectivity Director Christian Penn, three teams of artists each completed over 1,200 square feet of murals for different areas of the…

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PS 60: Financial Forest

Projectivity and Thrive Collective returned to PS 60 The Alice Austen School in the Summer of 2024 to complete Phase Two of their extreme mural makeover, with three more full hallway productions.  Curated by Projectivity Director Christian Penn, three teams of artists each completed over 1,200 square feet of murals for different areas of the…

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SOAR High at PS 86Q

ps86-banner ps86-banner2 ps86-banner3 ps86-banner4 ps86-banner5 ps86-banner6 ps86-banner7 ps86-banner9 Artist Kristy McCarthy interprets what it means to “SOAR High” at the main entrance to the PS 86 building in Queens. This four part mural series embodies PS 86’s motto of “soar high” and encourages students to dream big as they aim for the sky. The left…

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