Thrive Collective
This is Thrive’s first project with a Deaf community. High school students of one art class were asked, “Who are you as a community? What is important to you?” They answered: friendship, love, the school, communication, and inclusivity. The blue jay is Lexington’s mascot. Another member of the community suggested we include “SOAR” in ASL…
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Students at IS 217X: School of Performing Arts contributed to the school’s Extreme Mural Makeover with “Behind the Shine,” featuring art direction by Ashley Crawford. IS 217X: Behind the Shine (2023) ‹ › × × Previous Next IS 217X: Extreme Mural Makeover
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The Extreme Mural Makeover of IS217X School of Performing Arts ccntinued with three more mural projects this year including “Serenity,” featuring art direction by Andre Trenier. IS 217X: Serenity (2023) ‹ › × × Previous Next IS 217X Extreme Mural Makeover
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We returned to IS217X School of Performing Arts with three more mural projects this year starting with “Doors to Success,” a series of four exit doors. IS 217X: Doors to Success (2023) ‹ › × × Previous Next IS 217X Extreme Mural Makeover
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An interactive mural experience hosted by Thrive Collective helped basketball fans celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month when the New York Liberty played the Connecticut Sun on Saturday, May 27 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. “Light It Up,” a mural painted on the main concourse during the team’s second annual AAPI…
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Artist Cramcept returned to PS 9 to paint another set of ten interior murals. Collectively entitled “Reading Rocks,” the set features large characters, math equations, and slogans expressing the school culture. Check out last year’s PS 9 murals by Cramcept here. PS 9 Naples Street Elementary School: Reading Rocks (2023) ‹ › × × Previous…
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The theme Dr Seuss to Papoose was a loose starting point for the students to begin brainstorming ideas considering how to interpret literacy in all its forms. Through these activities they expressed their visions they had for their futures and how their educational career has shaped those futures. Leading artist Ashley “Awesum” Crawford incorporated drawings…
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Artist Vanesa Álvarez Díaz returned to PS 18 in 2023 to paint “We, The Power 2,” the continuation of last spring’s “We, the Power.” The mural is divided into two sections: one dresses a stairway while the other beautifies the landing of the sixth floor. The school already had a theme in mind for the…
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At PS 18, we came together with the absolute best kids ever to create the school’s second mural ever with us as partners. This season we were tasked with creating a mural based on the theme of Wellness/Emotions and Feelings. First, we held sessions with the kids in which we described what certain feelings are…
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Over the course of 16 weeks we collaborated on a mural with a group of high school students from the Next Steps after school program located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. The mural itself was painted on the eastern wall of Roberto Clemente elementary school, otherwise known as PS 13. Prior to…
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