Thrive Collective
Three 18-wheelers that were brought to the Coney Island Gospel Assembly in 2012 for Hurricane Sandy relief never left the parking lot. So 9 years after the storm, Thrive did the only reasonable thing that an arts organization specializing in murals would do if it had 18-wheelers lying around. That’s right: we gave them a…
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Three 18-wheelers that were brought to the Coney Island Gospel Assembly in 2012 for Hurricane Sandy relief never left the parking lot. So 9 years after the storm, Thrive did the only reasonable thing that an arts organization specializing in murals would do if it had 18-wheelers lying around. That’s right: we gave them a…
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Three 18-wheelers that were brought to the Coney Island Gospel Assembly in 2012 for Hurricane Sandy relief never left the parking lot. So 9 years after the storm, Thrive did the only reasonable thing that an arts organization specializing in murals would do if it had 18-wheelers lying around. That’s right: we gave them a…
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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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Our friends at Bronx Connect / RTG South sought to enliven the Claremont Community Houses alleyway between College and Findlay Avenues with color and positive imagery. They transformed the alley, a popular shortcut right outside their office, into the Claremont Community Art Walk. The organization also wanted to create a place of respite, so they…
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Our friends at Bronx Connect / RTG South sought to enliven the Claremont Community Houses alleyway between College and Findlay Avenues with color and positive imagery. They transformed the alley, a popular shortcut right outside their office, into the Claremont Community Art Walk. The organization also wanted to create a place of respite, so they…
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Our friends at Bronx Connect / RTG South sought to enliven the Claremont Community Houses alleyway between College and Findlay Avenues with color and positive imagery. They transformed the alley, a popular shortcut right outside their office, into the Claremont Community Art Walk. The organization also wanted to create a place of respite, so they…
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Our friends at Bronx Connect / RTG South sought to enliven the Claremont Community Houses alleyway between College and Findlay Avenues with color and positive imagery. They transformed the alley, a popular shortcut right outside their office, into the Claremont Community Art Walk. The organization also wanted to create a place of respite, so they…
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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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Words of gratitude, delight, and pride abounded from faculty and students alike as artist Daze transformed Frederick Douglass Academy (FDA) with a new mural outside the school entrance. Painted predominately with spray paint, the mural was completed in just two weeks! The fast transformation meant that each time students and faculty walked by the mural, there were new…
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