Thrive Collective
This mural is a little extra special, both for veteran Thrive artist Joshua Gabriel and Thrive Collective. For Joshua, it provided a unique opportunity to thank the elementary school that educated both of his children for almost a decade in the year his younger child graduated. For Thrive, it was our official post-COVID return to…
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In October of 2022, Bedford-Stuyvesant held its first-ever mural festival. Entitled “BedStuy Walls,” the festival invited artists to spray a long stretch of wall on Lexington Avenue belonging to a warehouse. Artist Michela Muserra, who has worked with Thrive for several years, founded Bed-Stuy Walls alongside art curator Frankie Velez. Wanting to include Thrive in…
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Three 18-wheelers that were brought to the Coney Island Gospel Assembly in 2012 for Hurricane Sandy relief never left the parking lot. So 9 years after the storm, Thrive did the only reasonable thing that an arts organization specializing in murals would do if it had 18-wheelers lying around. That’s right: we gave them a…
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From the IS 30 Wildcat Newsletter (Spring 2019): This spring, PS/IS 30 installed two new murals designed and painted by our students in collaboration with teaching artists Joshua Gabriel, Abby Walsh, and Nico Collazo from Thrive Collective. The “Opportunity” mural in the arts and sciences wing celebrates how creative imagination opens the doors of opportunity,…
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