Thrive Collective
At last, install day at BSSWA! Partial time-lapse of “Breathe Free, NYC” (mural 1) #bringartback #bsswamural #wip #immigration #bronxmurals #huntspointbx #nycmurals @nycthrive A post shared by Julia Cocuzza (@cuzzagram) on Aug 8, 2017 at 2:09pm PDT ED. NOTE: Final installation photos coming soon. In the third year of Thrive Collective’s visual arts partnership with Bronx…
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The Beacon Program at the MS 72Q Catherine and Count Basie School in Jamaica, Queens, invited us to work with their students to produce an after school mural this spring. The students suggested the theme of “Five Be’s” in honor of five core values stressed by the principal and faculty throughout the year. Legendary local…
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The three high schools at Grand Street Campus have long partnered with Thrive Collective for assemblies, mentoring, interns, art programs, and more. “Rooted” represents the second mural completed by students at Grand Street students after “Legacy” by Progress High School in 2014; and the first completed as a campus-wide collaboration with students from all three…
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Youth Specialties featured the work of Thrive Collective at their 2016 National Youth Workers Convention in Cincinnati (Nov. 17-20, 2016). More than 3,000 youth workers from around the country heard the #BringArtBack story from the main stage, experienced it in the collaborative production of the Arise mural throughout the conference, and watched this moving documentary…
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Together with apprentice artists Pilar Batista and Nico Collazo, Thrive’s Creative Director Sam Wisneski led a live, interactive art demonstration at the 2016 Fuel Student Conference on Saturday, October 8, 2016. Five hundred students from the greater New York City area attended the event, and dozens participated in the production of the Art Redemption mural…
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The Lower East Side neighborhood of Loisaida is known for its famed murals and the artists who create them. It’s also the birthplace of Thrive Collective and our School Murals program at PS/MS 34 in 2007. We were delighted to return with a second mural project in 2016 — this time exploring the neighborhood’s cultural identity on the focal wall…
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Meet Victoria Victoria is a Thrive Collective veteran, working with our teaching artists on three murals since this project in 2015. In this video, she describes the impacts the programs have made on her life. “It’s not every day where a kid like me who came out of a one-bedroom apartment with six brothers or…
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At MS 183Q, Art as Catalyst for Change funding from NYC Council Member Donovan Richards allowed us to: Provide 180 middle school students accredited, in-school Murals, Media, and Music classes for an entire semester; Produce one indoor mural, one sculptural installation, two assemblies, and two student films. MS 183Q: I Am the Rockaways ‹ ›…
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A discretionary grant from NYC Council Member Fernando Cabrera allowed us to return to IS 117 for a second School Murals project, this time with a twist. We would leverage the project as a mechanism to invite collaboration between both schools that share the building: IS 117 Joseph Wade Academy and The Young Women’s Leadership…
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