Thrive Collective
Bronx Connect partnered with the Mary Mitchell Community Center near its RTG North site to donate the “Peace Builds Community” mural as part of its “I Want to Grow Up” campaign. Artist Kenneth Tooley collaborated with students from Mary Mitchell’s summer program to design and produce the mural in the center’s playground. The mural revolves…
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Four classes totaling approximately 100 fourth and fifth grade students collaborated with artist May Bukowski to design and paint, “Your Mind is a Garden” at Chelsea Preparatory Academy this spring. The mural explores themes of community and inclusivity based on the school’s vision of nurturing individual identities, academic and personal growth while fostering a sense…
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aoh-les-may slider3 slider2 The ninth Art of Healing Festival came to Thrive’s backyard of Dry Dock Park in the Lower East Side’s 9th Precinct on August 2, 2025. Located literally across one street from our current office and another street from our first after school location and future murals headquarters, it also adjoins our flagship…
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slider3 aoh-les-may slider2 The ninth Art of Healing Festival came to Thrive’s backyard of Dry Dock Park in the Lower East Side’s 9th Precinct on August 2, 2025. Located literally across one street from our current office and another street from our first after school location and future murals headquarters, it also adjoins our flagship…
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The 8th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2025. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced virtual reality, danced, freestyle rapped, performed a drum circle and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated with Museum of the Moving Image, Black Spectrum Theatre, Speek Lyfe Movement, and…
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harlem-week-banner harlem-week-banner2 harlem-week-banner3 Our friends at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office asked us to bring the Art of Healing Workshops to 135 Street for Harlem Week on August 17, 2025. Every year since 1974, the Harlem Day block party punctuates the festivities and brings Harlem Week to a close. This 51st annual finale featured three…
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harlem-week-banner2 harlem-week-banner harlem-week-banner3 Our friends at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office asked us to bring the Art of Healing Workshops to 135 Street for Harlem Week on August 17, 2025. Every year since 1974, the Harlem Day block party punctuates the festivities and brings Harlem Week to a close. This 51st annual finale featured three…
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During our collaboration with RTG West this year, we were given the opportunity to transform a graffiti-littered wall that has been neglected for many years into a centerpiece that restores play to the neighborhood. Our students explored this theme of “Play,” developing vibrant depictions of children and adults playing instruments, sports, games, and other activities.…
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Bronx Connect partnered with the Brainiac Babies neighborhood day care center near its RTG North site to donate the “Future Leaders” mural as part of its “I Want to Grow Up” holiday campaign. Artist Ashley Crawford collaborated with student from RTG North to design and produce the mural in the center’s playground. RTG North: Brainiac…
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In the Fall of 2024, Artists Toofly and Lola Lovenotes collaborated with students from Bronx Connect’s RTG South program to add two new murals to their collection at the Claremont Art Walk and also paint a third new mural on the gates on their newest program site in the neighborhood. Toofly extended her original “Peacemakers”…
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