For 8 straight Tuesday afternoons (October 7 – December 2) an upstairs classroom in North Minneapolis bristles with the energy of 11 Sojourner Truth Academy students and 3 STA staff members.  The goal is to corral the student’s efforts into writing, shooting and editing original short films. The program will end with a screening of the film…
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We’ve just begun another Video Exploration Program with a talented group of young men from Mary’s Place. The program is led by Artist Mentor Mark Collier, assisted by MP staff member Bill Holmes, and meets every Thursday night for 10 weeks (September 18 – December 11). At the end of the program we will have…
My name is Savannah Davis and my dream has always been to make music. In middle school, I decided that I wanted to start a band and look for place that we could create and make music to share with people. But I had no idea how or where to look. And then when…
IA is excited to announce a new partnership with People Serving People, an emergency shelter in downtown Minneapolis serving homeless children and their families. On Monday October 6th we begin a Video Exploration Program with teens at PSP and we can’t wait to see what these talented young people create! The final video projects will…
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…