We bring great news back with us from Honduras. The purpose of our week long adventure to bring Inverted Arts, Compassion Int. and Red Viva together to create a week long art camp in 2016 has been successful! After meeting with both organizations on multiple occasions, it became clear that we all share a heart…
We just returned from our fifth Art Camp in the Mathare Valley, Kenya and were blown away by the amazing creativity of the 60 talented students who participated! This years team of Artist Mentors were: Jason, LaVonne and Philister – Video, Henry and Dennis – Photography, Sarah and Seth – Visual Art, Mark, James and Winny – Music….
We first met CeCe at People Serving People during our Video Exploration Program last fall. As part of that program the PSP D3 Teens created a cool video called “PSP Talent.” During that time we discovered that CeCe is a talented singer, song-writer and dancer with creative potential just waiting to be unleashed. So during the last couple months CeCe has been…
What a special night at our first annual Scholarship Dinner and Auction last Saturday! Over 125 friends, family, partners and students attended, and together we raised over $10,000 for IA Scholarships to be awarded in 2015! 100% of these funds will go toward student scholarships through partnerships in the Mathare Valley, the D.R. and at Hope Academy…
By Artist Mentor Chad Amour During the Fall of 2014 Inverted Arts partnered up with Sojourner of Truth Academy to host an eight-week Video Art Exploration program. The middle school students developed and produced a short documentary film that explores the motives and values of education from both students and teachers alike. Much gratitude can…
We are excited to unveil our 2015 IA Scholarship and Art Teacher Funds! The program launched in 2014 with scholarships for two students and funding for an Art Teacher in Mathare Valley, Kenya in partnership with Mathare Community Outreach (MCO). In addition to renewing current funding, we are adding a scholarship for a student in the Dominican Republic and one from Hope Academy…
It is our extreme pleasure to introduce you to the recipients of our very first Scholarships and Art Teacher awards in Mathare Valley, Kenya through our partnership with Mathare Community Outreach. Philister Anyango Miruka – Scholarship Student Philister is a student at Kenya Technical Teachers College and currently pursuing Instructors Training Course part two in garment…
By Artist Mentor Sarah Albinson I have the privilege of working with a few teens, this winter, in the Inverted Arts space! We meet weekly, working on each student’s individual projects. My students are based out of former Hope Academy classes I have taught in the past four years!! It has been really incredible to…
We’re fired up to be back at The Lift in St. Paul with the talented youth who brought you “The Genie and the Basketball.” Now these talented movie-makers are working on a docudrama about bullying. We meet every Saturday night and the program is being co-led by Artist Mentors Connor Unger and Mark Collier. Watch…
We’ve just started a cool new Dance Video Exploration Program at People Serving People in January. We meet on Monday nights with the talented D3 Teens. They are writing an original song, coming up with choreography for the song, and finally producing a video of the dance and performing the final version for friends, family and…