During our recent ten-week video Art Exploration program at Mary’s Place, eight talented young men created an original short film entitled, “The Last Ninjas.” This action film explores the struggle of good and evil; ninja-style of course. The team wrote, directed, produced, shot and starred in the 7 minute piece, soon to become a classic….
Our Goal is $16,500 Reaching this goal will completely fund four local Art Exploration Programs and two global Art Camps. Local Art Exploration Programs: 1. Mary’s Place – Minneapolis (spring and fall)  $4,500 2. People Serving People – Minneapolis (spring and fall)  $4,500 3. Sojourner Truth Academy – N. Minneapolis (fall) $2,250 4. The Lift – St. Paul (winter) $2,250 Global…
For 8 straight Tuesday afternoons (October 7 – December 2) an upstairs classroom in North Minneapolis bristles with the energy of 11 Sojourner Truth Academy students and 3 STA staff members.  The goal is to corral the student’s efforts into writing, shooting and editing original short films. The program will end with a screening of the film…
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We’ve just begun another Video Exploration Program with a talented group of young men from Mary’s Place. The program is led by Artist Mentor Mark Collier, assisted by MP staff member Bill Holmes, and meets every Thursday night for 10 weeks (September 18 – December 11). At the end of the program we will have…
Back in June the talented students at The Lift in St. Paul created an original short film called “The Genie and the Basketball.” On Saturday, August 16th the students, their families, friends and Lift staff members attended a premier showing of the film at the Plaza Theater in Maplewood, MN. Afterwards, students participated in a talk-back session…
By: Travis and Sarah Scharn Though it was really different from previous trips, our annual Dominican Republic Art Camp was yet another amazing experience. The last couple of years we’ve hosted the Art Camp in Hato Mayor, a smaller town around a 2-hour car ride from the capital city of Santo Domingo. This year, we were…
What a great week of Art Camp in Santo Domingo, DR! It was an exciting new partnership between Inverted Arts, Kristin and Joselo Santana – Wolford, and local churches Mundo de Fe and Jovenes Educando en las Verdad. This year’s focus was film-making and our Artist Mentor team of Travis and Sarah Scharn and James and Mark Collier…
By Artist Mentor – Vincent Joachim I walked, ran, cycled, took various types of transit, and even flew on a dragon while working for Inverted Arts facilitating photography and graphic design to middle school youth at Hope Academy. These modes of transportation are a great metaphor for the style of teaching I use when working…
On Wednesday July 2nd we celebrated the creativity of over 60 Hope Academy middle school students and 10 high school interns at the Art Exploration Community Showcase event. Students presented their work in Visual Arts, Photography, Video, Music and Theater.  Take a tour of their amazing work below! Visual Arts Artist Mentor – Sarah Albinson Visual…