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…
This is our eighth year partnering with Hope Academy during their summer session through our Art Exploration program for 85 middle school students and 10 high school interns. The purpose of the program is to offer a creative platform for students to explore and unleash their creative voices and our theme is “created2create!” We’ve just…
Inverted Arts is thrilled to announce that Grace Johnson is our 2018 Twin Cities Scholarship Recipient! Congratulations Grace! Grace has been part of Inverted Arts programs from the very beginning. As a middle schooler she participated in our Art Exploration Programs at Hope Academy, and later became a high school intern and assistant in the…
By Milaya Spann Let’s Walk The Talk Fashion and Modeling Workshop At People Serving People I arrived at People Serving People prepared to share my knowledge on fashion, the industry, self-love, character-building and its challenges. Although I was eager to teach, but just as excited to learn from the students. The youth of PSP were…
By Mar’Konash Teaching film at Columbia Academy was one of the most transformative and enjoyable experiences of my life. The way it was set up, I was supposed to go in and teach the middle schoolers, but I was the one learning more than I expected. It was an exchange of creativity, ideas and information….