Inverted Arts has just been awarded an Arts Activities grant of $10,000 from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council for “Mosaic;” a 10-12 minute documentary film exploring the nature of diversity through the eyes of three disadvantaged male youth in collaboration with three professional film-makers. Youth participants will take turns telling each others story through lens…
On Monday June 8th we kicked off our 5th annual Art Exploration Program at Hope Academy! This is a four-week program for 65 middle school students and 10 high school students with classes in visual art, photography, theater, music and video. The program runs June 8 – July 2 with a special Community Showcase Celebration…
On Wednesday May 20th we were honored to present the first ever IA Scholarship award at Hope Academy to recent graduate Stephanie Aquino. This scholarship is a $2,500/year award for up to four years for a Hope Academy graduate pursuing a major or minor in the arts, or some minimum level of artistic studies. Eligible students must…
Check out this amazing Sarah Albinson Artist Study by Zach Davis Photography. Very proud of Sarah. She is such a talented and innovative artist and is doing great work as an Artist Mentor with IA. We are blessed to have her on the team!
If you missed our Art-a-Whirl Open House back in May, here is some of the great art you would have seen from IA students and Artist Mentors.
You are invited to our Inverted Arts Open House during Art-a-Whirl weekend May 15 – 17, 2015. You will experience visual art from Artist Mentor Sarah Albinson and her Hope Academy interns Ricky and Grace, photography from Artist Mentor Sarah Ascanio, and photos and videos created by students from Mathare Valley during our recent Art Camp. You…
Very proud of students at The Lift and their new docudrama about bullying called “What the Bully Had to Say.” Special thanks to Artist Mentor Connor Unger and the incredible Lift staff! Check it out!
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…