Thrive Collective
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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At MS 42Q, Art as Catalyst for Change funding from NYC Council Member Donovan Richards allowed us to: Provide 200 middle school students accredited, in-school Murals and Media classes for an entire semester; Provide 45 students and 150 volunteers after school and weekend Murals and Media programs; Produce the “Love Well” mural, one recital, two assemblies,…
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Thanks to the generosity of NYC Council Member Fernando Cabrera and the Cultural Immigrants Fund, PS 310 declares to the surrounding community and all who enter its premises: “You belong here!” At the “Welcome to PS 310” mural ribbon cutting ceremony, the fifth grade student president stressed the mural’s significance: “We dedicate this mural to…
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“La Lucha Continua” (2017) Art Direction by Sam Wisneski / ThriveCollective.org Loisaida Center + FABNYC + Thrive Collective Community Mural at First Street Green Corner of 2nd Avenue & Houston Street, Manhattan Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the twenty-six La Lucha Continua community murals painted by the community mural collective Artmakers Inc. in the Lower…
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The mission, which we chose to accept: instigate, mobilize, and help facilitate a new school partnership nearly 3,000 miles away to complete our first School Murals project in Los Angeles. Our phenomenal collaborators: Urban Youth Workers Institute, which was hosting its national conference with 1,500 youth workers at Azusa Pacific University; Neighborhood Homework House, a local after school youth…
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NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray helps paint the Holidays Thrive mural with actor Dennis O’hare and artists from Thrive Collective at Union Square Park on December 12th, where we helped celebrate the City’s NYC Well campaign. Holidays Thrive ‹ › × × Previous Next
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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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Thrive Collective joined NY CityServe at the Movement Day Global Cities conference at the Jacob Javits Center on October 25-27, 2016. Friends from all over the world helped us create a collaborative mural by answering a simple question: “How should we love and serve our cities?” When the art installation was completed, it served as…
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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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