Back in June the talented students at The Lift in St. Paul created an original short film called “The Genie and the Basketball.” On Saturday, August 16th the students, their families, friends and Lift staff members attended a premier showing of the film at the Plaza Theater in Maplewood, MN. Afterwards, students participated in a talk-back session…
By: Travis and Sarah Scharn Though it was really different from previous trips, our annual Dominican Republic Art Camp was yet another amazing experience. The last couple of years we’ve hosted the Art Camp in Hato Mayor, a smaller town around a 2-hour car ride from the capital city of Santo Domingo. This year, we were…
What a great week of Art Camp in Santo Domingo, DR! It was an exciting new partnership between Inverted Arts, Kristin and Joselo Santana – Wolford, and local churches Mundo de Fe and Jovenes Educando en las Verdad. This year’s focus was film-making and our Artist Mentor team of Travis and Sarah Scharn and James and Mark Collier…
By Artist Mentor – Vincent Joachim I walked, ran, cycled, took various types of transit, and even flew on a dragon while working for Inverted Arts facilitating photography and graphic design to middle school youth at Hope Academy. These modes of transportation are a great metaphor for the style of teaching I use when working…
On Wednesday July 2nd we celebrated the creativity of over 60 Hope Academy middle school students and 10 high school interns at the Art Exploration Community Showcase event. Students presented their work in Visual Arts, Photography, Video, Music and Theater.  Take a tour of their amazing work below! Visual Arts Artist Mentor – Sarah Albinson Visual…
We are pleased to introduce you to Vincent Joachim – photography, Joyce Marrie – theater and Connor Unger – writing/film. Vincent and Joyce are part of our 2014 Hope Academy Art Exploration Team. Connor is leading our team at The Lift in St. Paul. Vincent T. Joachim is from Calgary, Alberta Canada and has been a…
Wednesday July 2nd @7pm You are invited to join us Wednesday July 2nd @ 7pm for our Community Showcase Celebration at Hope Academy! Students from our fourth annual IA Exploration Program will be presenting and performing their artistic creations in music, video, photography, visual art and theater. The event will last about one hour and is free, with…
On Friday June 27th we hosted a screening of our new documentary in the IA studios. Stay tuned for more local screening dates and then a public video link to be released fall 2014. Home: Mogadishu to Mary’s Place (2014: 18 minutes) This documentary film asks fifteen Somali residents of all ages from Mary’s Place…
June 10 we began our first Video Story-Telling Program with 12 students at The Lift in St Paul. The program is led by Artist Mentors Connor Unger and Mark Collier. The short video is called “The Genie and the Basketball” and students have led every aspect of the project from creation, to acting, directing and now…
Artist Mentors Sarah Albinson – Visual art, Chad Amour – Video, Vincent Joachim – Photography/Graphic Design, Joyce Marrie – Theater, and Mark Collier – Music have each been working with two talented high school interns from Hope Academy for weeks 1-2 of the Art Exploration Program (our fourth annual Art Exploration Program at Hope). They have been…