On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays this fall, Artist Mentor Joe Davis is leading Spoken Word sessions for students at Friendship Academy of the Arts in South Minneapolis. These students have so much talent and energy and we can’t wait to see hear and experience their poetry!
This fall Artist Mentor Ryan Daniel has been leading a Filmmaking program for students through our partnership with Exploration High School in NE Minneapolis. Students are learning all the important building blocks of being a good filmmaker and will be creating their own short films during the third quarter this year! Ryan Daniel is part…
We’re excited for you to meet our new and continuing Inverted Arts scholarship recipients at the Mission of Hope for the Disabled in Liberia! New Students: Marthaline Kollie To be disabled in Liberia it is not easy. You will be overlooked, limited and insulted. Many times I crawled on my knees and hands to get…
We had our very first Small Business Network zoom sessions with our Kenyan (Seth, Kevin and Yvonne) and Liberian (James, Joetta and Daniel) partners. We plan to meet quarterly to encourage, share ideas, successes, challenges and resources. In addition, we will invite other Kenyan and Liberian business leaders to join future sessions to share their…
CAGOC Construction UpdateCreative Arts Group of Companies James, Joetta and Daniel are co-leaders of CAGOC – the Creative Arts Group of Companies. In fall 2021, construction began on the CAGOC building on the Mission of Hope for the Disabled (MHD) property that will house these three businesses. It is a unique design in that the building sits…
We are excited for you to meet our new Inverted Arts scholarship recipients in Kenya and read updates from our students continuing in their studies! New Students: PHOEBE ADHIAMBO ODONGO Phoebe is a 19 year old who was orphaned at the age of 4. She has two sisters and they were all brought to Kariobangi…
Yvonne Asunnah – Yvonne Asunnah Kenya, Mathare Creative Foundation So much has happened in the past year-and-a-half. Yvonne got married to Brian, gave birth to baby Herana, and the family moved to Kitengela, which is about fifty km south of Nairobi. As we enter the final year of our five-year investment agreement with Yvonne she…
We can’t believe we’ve been partnering with Hope Academy in South Minneapolis for twelve years! What a great journey it’s been working with their talented students as they discover and explore their creative voices! This year we offered five classes led by professional Artist Mentors for over 100 middle school students during summer session: Photography (Bethel Gessesse),…
Last week Inverted Arts partnered with Montrose Church Pasadena and Stars Pasadena to present Sandbox Wonderland – an Art Camp for over 110 K-12 students! K-4 students explored their creative talents in music, dance, improv, visual art, and percussion. Middle and High School students played in the photography and filmmaking sandboxes and they enjoyed a…
The new computers just arrived at small business partner K. Fraji Productions in Mathare, Kenya. Soon local young artists can use the facilities for all their video editing and production needs!