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Peace in the Park: Stop the Violence Staten Island

“Peace in the Park,” an anti-violence mural created by Projectivity and Thrive Collective, was recently featured on a Staten Island news site. The mural, which covers more than 200 feet of wall at Rev. Dr. Maggie Howard Park in Staten Island’s Stapleton neighborhood, was funded in part by the Staten Island Foundation and the New…

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Hip Hop 50: The Future of Hip Hop

Hip Hop artistry beautifies public spaces and brings art to the masses. The first element of Hip Hop to captivate public imagination was the visual artistry of Graffiti. The Hip Hop 50th Birthday Jam paid tribute to the transformative power of Hip Hop visuals with six canvas works by iconic Graf Writers, and two collaborative murals…

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CHARAS/El Bohio Community Center: El Bohio Murals (5 of 9)

In late 2022, Thrive partnered with community organizations in the Lower East Side to paint a stretch of wall belonging to an abandoned school building on East 10th Street. The mural project was in homage to CHARAS, an iconic community organization that had moved into the abandoned building in 1979. There, they established “El Bohio”…

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