Thrive Collective
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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PS 212 commissioned artist Pelumi Ayeni to design the “100 Years of Excellence” commemorative vinyl door wrap celebrating the school’s 100 year anniversary. Murals by Pelumi Ayeni
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Artist Shawn McArthur led a four-week sneaker design workshop for Projectivity at the Carter Center in NYCHA Stapleton Houses, in collaboration with the 127 Penn NYPD Community Center. Contact us to learn about Projectivity’s youth art programs in Staten Island and the Washington, DC Metro area. “The Staten Island YSD team partnered with the organization…
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Projectivity noticed a need on Staten Island for more muralists. There is an abundance of artists, but not many muralists so Jodi Dareal set out to find and train new ones. After putting calls out for applications, we confirmed a list of 6 artists that participated in the mural training program. This was hosted in…
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These two murals – Choose Joy and Create Memories – hit a little differently. What we now call Thrive Collective started as an after-school and summer camp in NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses in 1996. Generation Xcel was co-founded by 13 teens from the Lower East Side and a then 21 year old Jeremy Del Rio in…
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These two murals – Choose Joy and Create Memories – hit a little differently. What we now call Thrive Collective started as an after-school and summer camp in NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses in 1996. Generation Xcel was co-founded by 13 teens from the Lower East Side and a then 21 year old Jeremy Del Rio in…
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IMG_2203 IMG_2260 Screenshot Screenshot today-feature today-feature7 today-feature6 today-feature5 today-feature4 today-feature3 today-feature2 today-show-feature today-show-banner Happy Birthday, Hoda! Thrive Collective’s 600th mural came “RIGHT ON TIME” to celebrate Hoda Ktob’s 60th birthday with the Today show. Mural by Marissa Molina Project Management by Pelumi Ayeni Student Artists: Eli, Chris, Josh, Charlize, Aaliyah, John, Aaron, Henry, and CJ Mural painted…
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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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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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Thrive Collective returned to our flagship school PS/MS 34 in collaboration with University Settlement’s SONYC after school program to design and produce the “I AM” mural with middle school students. We painted the mural on polytab for installation in the schoolyard after exterior school construction finishes in the summer of 2025. (Final photos of installed…
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