Thrive Collective
Thank you, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (“DCLA”), for investing in Thrive Collective’s mission to eradicate artless education since 2016. From July 2023 to September 2024, our New York City students and artists completed: 152 school and community murals totaling 40,000 square feet of public art at seventy-six locations in all five boroughs. Ten original…
read moreThank you, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, for investing in Thrive Collective’s mission to eradicate artless education since 2016. In FY23, our students and artists completed: 156 school and community murals at seventy-four locations in all five boroughs; 28 original songs and 27 music videos; Our 450th mural since 2013; Our 25,000th student and 200th…
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R.H.Y.M.E. collaborates with students from Queens Prep High School to learn about hip-hop as a therapeutic outlet and be able to get hands on experience at songwriting, producing and audio recording. This eclectic record came from a series of writing exercises and production workshop in which students wrote, performed and co-produced the music by working…
read more“Kindness So Electric” is a collaboration between PS 34 and Thrive Collective’s RHYME program. This song is about students going for their passions and converting negative thoughts to positive ones through the arts, unity and sports. Over the course of 20 weeks, students and Teaching Artists worked together to learn about hip hop, produce an…
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Thank you, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, for investing in Thrive Collective’s mission to eradicate artless education since 2016. In FY22, our students and artists completed: 93 school and community murals at sixty locations in all five boroughs; 18 original songs and music videos; Two film festivals featuring ten student videos; Our 300th mural since…
read moreNYC Council CASA x R.H.Y.M.E For this edition of the R.H.Y.M.E music and mentoring after school program, students from PS/MS 42 in Queens came together to write and record “Climb,” an original song about perseverance, endurance and working hard to achieve their goals. Special thanks to PS/MS 42 school community, staff and students for conceiving…
read moreThank you, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, for consistently investing in Thrive Collective’s expansion as an arts education provider for students and schools since 2016. (Drone video footage by @just_a_spectator.) This past year nurtured our deepening relationship through four NYC initiatives: the Cultural Development Fund (“CDF”), Art a Catalyst for Change (“Catalyst”), Cultural Immigrants Initiative…
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Thanks to the ongoing support of NYC Council Members Justin Brannan, Fernando Cabrera, Donovan Richards, Andrew Cohen, Carlina Rivera, and Matthieu Eugene, in 2019 the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs directly invested in our work with fourteen public schools and a NYCHA senior center through the Cultural Immigrants Fund, Cultural After-School Adventures (CASA), Art a…
read moreA preferred genre of our School Media students is producing music videos for their favorite pop songs. This Youtube playlist features some of our recent faves. Enjoy!
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At Thrive Collective, we love stories that demand sequels. After proudly introducing the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs as a new partner last year, this year we saw an expansion of that relationship. Our principal champions remain NY City Council Members Vincent Gentile, Fernando Cabrera, and Donovan Richards, along with Antonio Reynoso who joined them…
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