A great, big THANK YOU to everyone who donated during Give to the Max Day November 15th. Together we raised $6,520 for these four 2019 projects below! And if you missed Give to the Max Day, it’s not too late to help us reach our goal of $10,000! Just click the yellow donate button below….
Goal $10,000 for four 2019 projects Give to the Max Day November 15th from Inverted Arts on Vimeo. Youth Changing Communities Through Creativity Did you know that human beings aren’t meant to just be taken care of? We all have something to contribute! We’re all “created 2 create!” These four projects are led by young…
We are thrilled to introduce you to three new IA Kenyan Scholarship Recipients! SETH OLUVUYI LUCHEMOS Seth has been an IA Artist Mentor in music for the Mathare Art Camp the last four years. He graduated from Kenya Institute Management (KIM), with a diploma in Project Management. He had been a student at LEPTA, a…
We are excited to announce that we received an MRAC Arts Activities Grant for a documentary film project that will feature multi-generational stories of the Little Earth Native American community in South Minneapolis, MN, co-produced by three paid Little Earth student interns. The working title is “Little Earth: Pride of the People Overcoming Pain of…
By Sarah Nelson As human beings we are capable of so much. We are capable of love, strength, beauty, building, resilience, inventing, problem solving, and creating. All bringing different skill sets and perspectives into our communities and workplaces, from personal experience to genetic wiring. We are made with good to give. At Minnesota Camp…
Mathare Music Video 2018 from Inverted Arts on Vimeo. Mathare Art Camp 2018 from Inverted Arts on Vimeo. By Jason and LaVonne Dyer At first glance, one might just see dirt and corrugated steel, garbage piles and mucky water. Mathare is a place of extreme poverty. Nearly half a million people live in…
PSP National Night Out from Inverted Arts on Vimeo. By DelStarr I got the chance to perform and participate at the People Serving People’s National Night Out event on August 7th. This event took me back to when my family and I was in their place, struggling. It’s not an easy thing being homeless…
By Raygen Samone Early this summer I was graced to learn about photography and storytelling with young students of People Serving People. To introduce them to the power of a single image and multiple, they spent a session flipping through my life photo album. From before my birth to my life now, the students went…
Thank you for helping 80 students from NW Pasadena discover they are “created 2 create!” Our second annual Art Camp took place the last week of July and each day elementary students explored their talents in dance, visual art, drums and theater, while middle schoolers experimented with music production, wrote some amazing songs, and painted…
This was our eighth year partnering with Hope Academy in S. Minneapolis during their summer session! We offered our Art Exploration program for 85 middle school students and 10 high school interns with classes in Filmmaking, Photo-storytelling, Song Writing, Theater and Speed Painting. The purpose of the program was to offer a creative platform for…