Thrive Collective
Our longtime friends and collaborators from Loisaida Center and LES CommUNITY Concerns recommended three Thrive Collective affiliated artists for the inaugural murals at the corner of 12C Outdoor Gallery on 12th Street and Avenue C, curated by Galinsky. Completed in the spring of 2024, the collection honors the neighborhood’s deep cultural connection to Puerto Rico,…
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Dry Dock Park is quite literally Thrive Collective’s backyard. It’s across 10th Street from our office, across Avenue D from where we started as an after school program in 1996, and adjacent to our flagship school PS/MS 34 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. So when our friends and neighbors at Henry Street Settlement invited us…
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Loisaida is home. Thrive Collective was conceived, born, and nurtured in the Lower East Side enclave that carries this name. When our friends and neighbors at the Loisaida Center invited us to participate in their 36th annual Loisaida Festival, we jumped at the opportunity. They sweetened the invitation by asking us to lead a community…
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Thrive artists teamed up with Mitchel Community Center in the Bronx during their 2022 summer program to design a yard mural. We weaved together several themes for the mural’s design, including Ancient Egypt, the center’s values (kindness, respect, equity, being a “bully-free zone”) and students’ favorite memories of growing up and attending the center. During…
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Thrive artist Savannah Zambrano was selected for the City Artist Corps Grant to create a mural for a school in her community, and Thrive introduced her to our friends at Inwood Academy for Leadership. After much work and some heartwarming moments painting with students and families of the community, the time for the mural unveiling came:…
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For this project, Thrive Collective partnered with RAIN Tolentine Senior center members to design a mural that reflects their values, their community, and what they enjoy doing. Some ideas represented in the mural are tropical plants, flowers, and birds, chalupa, bingo, dance and movement, music, and embroidery. There is also a rainbow, with small animals…
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Students at Fannie Lou Hamer Middle School and PS 66 memorialized the words of the civil rights icon: “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free.” They are learning the importance of taking a stand for the issues that affect our day to day lives. In this Summer Rising project, they highlighted the initiative of young leaders as…
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