Thrive Collective
Thrive Collective’s latest collaboration with the Brooklyn Nets celebrates AAPI Heritage Month for their NETS UNITE poster series. The Nets invited Thrive’s creative director — and our longest tenured artist — Kekoa and his wife Kristen to design this extraordinary poster, and distributed 5,000 prints to fans attending the Nets v. Chicago Bulls game at…
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Let the show go on!🎈 In memory of two cherished teachers, this project stands as a lasting tribute to the lives and impact of Ms. Hamermesh and Ms. Walter. It was an honor to share some beautiful and heartfelt moments with the community of PS 89Q in our time together. Drawing from the creativity and…
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Thrive’s Private Client Services expanded in 2020 to include private commissions in New York and California. Juarez Kajukenbo, a dojo in Oakland, CA, commissioned Thrive Collective artist Kekoa to paint their training studio. Go here to support our double bottom line. Hire the best and support the cause. Juarez Kajukenbo (2020) ‹ › × × Previous…
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Passion Enchantment Sophistication Authenticity On February 13th, we delivered four mixed media canvases to the brand new, luxury Edition Times Square hotel celebrating the hotel’s core values of Passion, Enchantment, Sophistication, and Authenticity. Staff helped paint the canvases on Friday, February 8th, by interpreting those values during their pre-launch staff training event. The canvases, art directed…
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Passion Enchantment Sophistication Authenticity On February 13th, we delivered four mixed media canvases to the brand new, luxury Edition Times Square hotel celebrating the hotel’s core values of Passion, Enchantment, Sophistication, and Authenticity. Staff helped paint the canvases on Friday, February 8th, by interpreting those values during their pre-launch staff training event. The canvases, art directed…
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Passion Enchantment Sophistication Authenticity On February 13th, we delivered four mixed media canvases to the brand new, luxury Edition Times Square hotel celebrating the hotel’s core values of Passion, Enchantment, Sophistication, and Authenticity. Staff helped paint the canvases on Friday, February 8th, by interpreting those values during their pre-launch staff training event. The canvases, art directed…
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Passion Enchantment Sophistication Authenticity On February 13th, we delivered four mixed media canvases to the brand new, luxury Edition Times Square hotel celebrating the hotel’s core values of Passion, Enchantment, Sophistication, and Authenticity. Staff helped paint the canvases on Friday, February 8th, by interpreting those values during their pre-launch staff training event. The canvases, art directed…
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We are grateful to the Minority Corporate Council Association for inviting Thrive Collective to create a live painting for auction at their Advancing Together Diversity Gala at the American Museum of Natural History on October 3, 2018. Lead artist Kekoa, together with Kristen Leung, masterfully completed the canvas in 1.5 hours, and showcased it below…
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Welcome to “Migration Remix,” where students from one Brooklyn high school see themselves in masterpieces by Frida Kahlo (Mexico), Johannes Vermer (Netherlands), Hokusai (Japan), Van Gogh (Netherlands), Edvard Munch (Norway), Banksy (UK), Grant Wood (USA), and Keith Haring (USA). In this collaboration with the High School of Telecommunications, Art & Technology, artists and students focused on…
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Welcome to “See Yourself in the Story,” a collaboration between Thrive and PS 185 that aimed to reimagine classic characters so that they represented the more diverse community of Bay Ridge. Made possible by NYC Council Member Vincent Gentile and the Cultural Immigrant Initiative, the mural is for all of the different people who now call…
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