We are excited to announce that we have received a Capital Grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council to purchase DSLR cameras, laptops and accessories to lead a new Inverted Arts “Photo Story-Telling Program.” This project will serve students from four of our partners: People Serving People, Simpson Housing, Hope Academy, and Columbia Academy. In…
By JD O’Brien After jumping on board with Inverted Arts this past summer, I got the opportunity to teach my first after-school film class with the 6th through 8th graders at Columbia Academy. A lot was learned, and the students might have picked up a thing or two as well. We started by talking about…
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…