You are invited to join us Tuesday, 7pm July 2nd for our Community Showcase Celebration at Hope Academy! Students from our IA Exploration Program will be presenting and performing their artistic creations in music, dance, theater,…
What a great start to our third annual Art Exploration Program at Hope Academy! During these first two weeks our Artist Mentors (Betsy Mills – dance, Corey Mills – Theater, Sarah Albinson – visual art, Becca Ulasich – photography, and Mark Collier – music) have been working with their high school interns. The interns are…
By Artist Mentor Betsy Mills It was a great privilege to work with the girls and young women at Mary’s Place this spring. We had a unique group every week and had so much fun exploring dance together. We went through a few different exercises or steps you might encounter in a jazz, modern, ballet or…
Inverted Arts has received a generous grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council that will largely fund our third annual Art Exploration Program at Hope Academy in South Minneapolis. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the…
We have just returned from an great week of Art Camp April 22-26 with the students of Mathare Community Outreach (MCO) in Nairobi, Kenya. This was our third Art Camp in Mathare and each time it feels more and more like coming home! We are so thankful and honored to partner with the staff of…
Update During our recent 2013 Art Camp April 22-26 in the Mathare Valley, we were excited to present Kevin with a new photo printer on behalf of Inverted Arts for his work with the children in Mathare. Keep up the great work Kevin! Â Read the full story below… By…
SIEMPRE, TIJUANA, MEXICO March 19-27, 2013 By: Sarah Albinson Lisa Albinson and I went to teach linoleum block printing, and t-shirt stenciling techniques to the youth residing at the Siempre Para Los Ninos Orphanage. Our goal was to expose and teach repeatable methods in an art form that can be mass-produced and marketed, as well…
It was terrifying stepping into a trip that I was in charge of from the ground up, but thanks to God it has gone so incredibly, my jaw is simply stuck to the floor. Lisa Albinson, and I have been here for four days, and we have officially reached our half way marker. Lisa is…
Inverted Arts Camp – Mathare 2013 We are excited to be headed back to the Mathare Valley in Nairobi, Kenya to offer our third Art Camp for the students of Mathare Community Outreach (MCO). Mathare is a shanty village (located in an old quarry 2km long by 300m wide) 5 km from Nairobi with 600,000…
By Mark Collier For the last eight weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working with the young men’s group at Mary’s Place and exploring the world of video production. I’ve had a very talented group of about 15 guys every Friday evening and we have covered a lot of stuff in that short time making…