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Don’t miss our Inverted Arts Winter Art Fair on Saturday, January 28th, from 6pm – 9pm here at the IA Studios in NE Minneapolis. Artists Sarah Nelson, Delphin Starr, Emma Mollendor and several of our student interns will have their artwork on display and for sale! At 7:30pm watch speed painter Delphin Starr create a brand new piece. Come celebrate…

We just finished an eight-week songwriting program at The Lift. There were three incredibly talented students in the program: Alana, Dowon and Hudson. The sessions were led by Artist Mentors Christopher Kirkwood and Mark Collier and you can check out their cool tunes below.             Alana – Come Back Another…

By Artist Mentor Emma Mollendor When I was fifteen I was sent to a rehabilitating boarding school in Missouri, approximately eleven hours from my home. It was at that point in my life that I was forced to face things in my past that were buried deep inside of myself. My parents decision to send…

By Artist Mentor Don Zietlow Expressing yourself creatively can be accomplished through a variety of mediums or activities. While many of us are familiar with the more traditional art forms, such as drawing, painting, photography, and performing arts, Inverted Arts recently had the opportunity to share creativity though cooking with a group of students. In…

By Artist Mentor Katie French Perez Every Wednesday evening for 8 weeks I headed over to the Children’s Residential Treatment Center (CRTC) to spend an hour with a group of amazing young people. Our goal was to create holiday cards using paint, collage, pen/ink, markers, pretty much anything that could make a winter-themed card sing…

Inverted Arts is helping disadvantaged youth around the world discover that they are created 2 create! These students come from the fringes of society. They are the forgotten, neglected, and ignored. Many are at risk, coming to us from difficult family situations, violent neighborhoods, homeless shelters and slums. When students hear the words created to create…

By Artist Mentor Chad Amour On October 29th in the glamorous Inverted Arts International Headquarters, eight student/mentor pairs from Simpson Housing showed up for a one-day workshop on the delightful art of niche filmmaking.  Inspired by the continuous shot technique used famously by the film Birdman and music video by OKGO, these duos created 3-minute short…

“Dorms” is an original student film created, directed, produced, edited and performed by Macai and Brandy. The film was shot in the IA Studios during a recent Film Exploration Program in partnership with People Serving People. It’s a gift for you from these two talented students, just in time for Halloween night! Watch if you…

We’ve started an exciting new partnership with Volunteers of America, an organization that takes on the most difficult tasks to help people gain self-reliance, dignity and hope. VOA offers more than 60 services in Minnesota and Wisconsin to help vulnerable children, adolescents, families, older adults, students, persons with disabilities and special needs, and ex-offenders. The…