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Help kindness go viral
During the Coronavirus quarantine, unleash your creativity with these free coloring pages, daily prompts, lesson plans, hashtag challenges and more.
Meet the student visionaries here.
Register to win a free mural here.
Share your stories, photos, media, and art on social media, and tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and @NYCThrive.
Win a Free Mural
NYC public school buildings may be closed through June, but this spring participating schools can win a FREE one-of-a-kind school mural. Every NYC Public School that registers as part of “Kindness Beats the Virus” will be eligible to win a FREE mural designed in the days before the quarantine by five students and street art legend Toofly. To register your school, complete this simple form. The mural will be awarded to the school that has the highest percentage of enrolled students participating in Thrive’s #KindnessBeatsTheVirus activities. The winning school will be chosen based on the number of public student Instagram posts that utilize both the #KindnessBeatsTheVirus hashtag AND the unique school hashtag included on the registration form.
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Coloring Sheets
Download individual coloring sheets, or the collections as pdfs. Share your colorized versions on Instagram or Facebook and tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and the artist.
New Release (6/10)
Curated by Bio, Crash, and Sonic. Presented with WallWorksNY.
Featured Artists: Bio | Crash | Coraima Santana | Daze | Joe Pimentel | Julio Olvera | Kekoa | Kristen Hubbard | La Borinqueña | Larry Valenzuela | LAZOO | MadC | Nicer | Nick Walker | Nico Collazo | Olga Correa | Oliver Rios | Ronnie Robles | SONIC BAD | Shiro | Toofly
New Release (4/29)
31 Pages: 1 a Day for the Month of May
Download the entire collection, an international, all-star selection curated by legends Bio, Crash, and Sonic. Presented in collaboration with WallWorks NY.
Featured Artists: Banga | BG-183 | Bio | BRE | COPE2 | Cren | Crey132 | Daze | Flavor | Ice One TWA | Jon Phes Souza | Kaves | Kekoa | Nicer | Nico Collazo | Pwoz | Quik | Ruse BAD | Santiago Jaén | Sar TMB | Soem | SONIC BAD | Toofly | Wuze
Featured Collab
For Masterpiece Minds
Daily Prompts
Activate your imagination everyday with these daily prompts. Share stories, pictures, media, and art on social media. Tag #KindnessBeatsTheVirus and @NYCThrive. Examples:
- Download Week 1 (pdf)
- Download Week 2 (pdf)
- Download Week 3 (pdf)
- Download 21 Days (pdf)
As Seen on Instagram
Art Lessons for Remote Learning
Lesson Plans
Written by Thrive Teaching Artists for non-artist instructors; utilizing non-specialized, readily available, at home materials. Download individual lesson plans as pdfs.
- Animal Character Design (pdf)
- Graffiti Lettering Basics (pdf)
- Guess Who Does What? (pdf)
- Hip Hop Haiku (pdf)
- Human/Animal/Machine, Pt 1 (pdf)
- Human/Animal/Machine, Pt 2 (pdf)
- Natural City (pdf)
- Paper Totem Poles (pdf)
- Personal Logos (pdf)
- Perspective Drawing (pdf)
- Self Portraits (pdf)
- Unconventional Mosaics (pdf)
Featured Partner: Projectivity
Music Samples & More. Download Projectivity’s “Producer Sample” packs and coloring book. Producer samples can be used to make your own music or videos. Download them now and make sure to tag @projectivity and the artist when you create with them, along with #KindnessBeatsTheVirus.
DownloadOnline Workshops
Interested in online arts and music workshops during the quarantine? We have options (as of 4/6).
Instagram's Top Twenty
The Hashtag Challenge
Use the #KindnessBeatsTheVirus hashtag and tag @NYCThrive. “Like” your favorites to feature them in an upcoming art exhibit. The exhibit will include two Hashtag Challenge categories. The top two entries from each category will have the opportunity to merchandise their submission as a collaboration with an acclaimed artist.
Completed 5th grade mural collaboration for Taft Elementary School in Washingtonville, NY. Unfortunately the kids couldn’t participate this year but they all contributed their self portrait drawings to the project. #schoolmural #schoolmurals #washingtonville #hudsonvalley #hudsonvalleymagazine #hudsonvalleyartist #mural #muralist #muralart #muralpainting #muralsdaily #kindnessbeatsthevirus #diversity #kindness #pimentelmurals #gpmuralpaints #goldenmuralpaint
• nycthrive Black Lives Matter mural, Day 1, is a wrap. Friday morning touch ups and detailing, then redeploy #ThriveCollective team to assist other letters. Join us 8am.
What a gift to help bring artoftijay`s artistic vision to life, and work next letter to crashone and orrdesigns.
Walk all three blocks in our story.
#BlackLivesMatter #KindnessBeatsTheVirus #WeAreThrive #BringArtBack #CreateWithUs nycyouth nycyouth nyculture nycschools galeabrewer nyccouncil nycmayor tatscru wxystudio artoftijay materialsforthearts
Super excited to be a part of the next coloring book iteration from Wall Works. Amazing artists involved to help break up the monotony of quarantining. Check it out!! wallworksny ・・・
first one was so nice, we had to do it twice! VOLUME 2 of our free quarantine coloring book is now available!
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featuring abstrk anandanahu workingclasscatalyst chrisrwk thedrif orrdesigns giz_nyc keithharingfoundation kennyscharf kevintkelly_popart iankualii jmrizzi queenandreaone _suchstyles zimad_art
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#wallworksny #wallworksnewyork #wallworksgallery #wallworksatkreatehub #quarantinecoloringbook #wallworkscoloringbook #volume2 #free #download #supportsmallbusiness #supportart #kindnessbeatsthevirus
Awesome Mural for nycthrive
Artists include: toofly_nyc
miki__mu armordtribe91
minhafofa coripoderosa
randymasonmusic
#kindnessbeatsthevirus #nycthrive #foroneandall #covidart #nycstreetart #nystreetart #streetartnyc #lowereastsidestreetart
#urbanart #urbanstreetart
#urbanwalls #artinthestreets #globalstreetart #streetart #streetarteverywhere
#streetartist #streetartdaily
#streetartlovers #streetartistry
#streetartphotography
#arteurbano #muralart
#publicart #welovestreetart
#graffitiartnyc #graffitiart
#aerosolart #sprayart #sprayartist
Holiday season is here ! “Dragon Lion Medley “ , latest festive mural of chinatownmuralproject with peacheeblue and nycthrive 🦁🐲 ! Mural designed by peacheeblue and painted with peacheeblue miki__mu tunamelt.nyc abhifornow chinatownmuralproject and skioding Wish everyone the best for the coming year of 2021! Stay strong and healthy! #mural #muralart #murals #streetart #chinatownmuralproject #chinatown #manhattan #nycthrive #thrivecollective #kindnessbeatsthevirus #lunarnewyear #fun #liondance #dragondance #dragon #tradition #fire #streetarteverywhere #muralista #streetartnyc #paint #painting #colorful #chinesenewyear #holiday #confetti #dumplings #2020 #2021
The F train isn’t sure if they have a cold, the flu, or covid. But they’re considerate enough to not want to share whatever it is. Kindness is contagious.
***This account is not public property. Spreading misinformation will no longer be tolerated. Contrary opinions are respected, but misinformation without a shortened url to a reputable source earns a permanent ban. My house, my rules.
***I’m looking forward to hearing from all of the “constitutional scholars”.
#subwaydoodle #subway #doodle #swd #nyc #ftrain #mta #mtasubway #masks #covidmasks #covid_19 #covid #covid19 #flu #flushot #fluseason #cold #maskup #chindiaper #heroeswearmasks #maskhole #maskholes #cdc #who #covidnews #kindness #kindnessmatters #kindnessbeatsthevirus #kindnessiscontagious #herecomethetrolls
IT’S HERE! Our next free, downloadable coloring book is up on our website. Volume 3 is a collaboration with Tom Slaughter Studio to being you the late arist’s iconic alphabet! We hope you love it and remember to tag us and tslaughterstudio in your creations!
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#wallworksny #wallworksnewyork #wallworkscoloringbook #tomslaughter #tomslaughterstudio #alphabet #ABCs #free #download #coloringbook #quarantinelife #staycreative #supportsmallbusiness #kindnessbeatsthevirus
UN LIVRE DE COLORIAGE POUR LES ENFANTS CONFINES À TÉLÉCHARGER GRATUITEMENT !! "Wildstyle Coloring Book" pour #KindnessBeatsTheVirus
Proposé par les street artistes Crash John Matos, Bio Wilfreo Feliciano et Sonic Jesse Rod, en collaboration avec la galerie d’art WallWorksNY, le livre est disponible en téléchargement GRATUIT sur le site Thrivecollective.org/kindness. 31 pages à colorier (une par jour pour le mois de mai). Avec la participation de Crey132.
Aux enfants de jouer. Donnez libre cours à votre créativité avec ces coloriages, et partagez le résultat sur les réseaux sociaux en taguant #KindnessbeatstheVirus et en identifiant les artistes (liste à retrouver dans la présentation du projet).
A huge Thanks to Durok sacred_glyphs for judging Week 1 of the Summer Throwdown, In colab with nycthrive “Word Wednesday”. Thank you for taking time to judge and show love to all the artists. 🙏🏼 Durok is a dope artist from SCB, originally from El Paso, TX, and residing in Phoenix... he has roots in shaping the hiphop culture from east coast to west coast, graffiti, bboy, DJing, and teaching students.
When he’s not hanging with his daughter, you can catch him writing or spinning, as of most recent in Los Angeles.
Join me in showing Durok some love 👇🏼 #graff #graffiti #hiphop #bboy #together #wildstyle #stylemaster
#kindnessbeatsthevirus
dj_goodvibes nigerian__savage iambastin
#kindnessbeatsthevirus nycthrive
JOIN THE CORONA CHALLENGE AND SPREAD KINDNESS‼️‼️. How to join
1. Make a video 45 sec 1 min max!! 2. Introduce yourself in the video 3. State one thing you been doing during quarantine!
4.one thing you can’t wait to do and why!!! When you done tag 3-5 you want to join you than #kindnessbeatsthevirus as well!! Let’s spread this challenge and spread kindness when it’s most needed!!! ALL POST WILL BE SHARE ON OUR thrivecollectivekids STORY
This Week’s Winner goes to hippieoner
From ISI, G4 & BAC crews.
isicrew go_4th
Congratulations and thanks for taking time to drop a piece. Keep the skills fresh.
The piece of the word, “Together” was dropped in colab with nycthrive “Word Wednesday” #kindnessbeatsthevirus challenge.
Much respect to all the writers and artists for contributing a piece. It’s been a crazy time but we are in this Together, stay tuned...more to come.
Stay Creative & Stay Connected
#graff #graffiti #wildstyle #stylemaster #art #kindnessbeatsthevirus
#go4th #isi
#Shoutout to Mr. Glenn, #BUGS Regents Living Environment Teacher, for inviting his Kitchen Botany class into his kitchen for a virtual lesson about how to make sourdough starter from scratch and the chemistry reactions that make it effective. This warm and wonderful lesson included reminisces of living in San Francisco, baking tips, and how to thoughtfully craft a meal that meets the needs and tastes of different family members.
#BUGSRemoteLearning #KindnessBeatsTheVirus #StayHome
From our Blog
Updates
Thrive’s Ongoing Response to Coronavirus / COVID-19
1. The Instagram Top Ten
Selections determined by Instagram likes
2. The Artists Top Ten
Selections determined by an independent panel of artists