We have just returned from an great week of Art Camp April 22-26 with the students of Mathare Community Outreach (MCO) in Nairobi, Kenya. This was our third Art Camp in Mathare and each time it feels more and more like coming home! We are so thankful and honored to partner with the staff of…
Update During our recent 2013 Art Camp April 22-26 in the Mathare Valley, we were excited to present Kevin with a new photo printer on behalf of Inverted Arts for his work with the children in Mathare. Keep up the great work Kevin! Â Read the full story below… By…
SIEMPRE, TIJUANA, MEXICO March 19-27, 2013 By: Sarah Albinson Lisa Albinson and I went to teach linoleum block printing, and t-shirt stenciling techniques to the youth residing at the Siempre Para Los Ninos Orphanage. Our goal was to expose and teach repeatable methods in an art form that can be mass-produced and marketed, as well…
It was terrifying stepping into a trip that I was in charge of from the ground up, but thanks to God it has gone so incredibly, my jaw is simply stuck to the floor. Lisa Albinson, and I have been here for four days, and we have officially reached our half way marker. Lisa is…
Inverted Arts Camp – Mathare 2013 We are excited to be headed back to the Mathare Valley in Nairobi, Kenya to offer our third Art Camp for the students of Mathare Community Outreach (MCO). Mathare is a shanty village (located in an old quarry 2km long by 300m wide) 5 km from Nairobi with 600,000…
By Mark Collier For the last eight weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working with the young men’s group at Mary’s Place and exploring the world of video production. I’ve had a very talented group of about 15 guys every Friday evening and we have covered a lot of stuff in that short time making…
SIEMPRE PARA LOS NINOS – TIJUANA, MEXICO From March 19-27, Sarah and Lisa Albinson will be working with the kids at the Siempre Para Los Ninos Orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. They will be teaching stencil t-shirt creation and basic block printmaking that will help them create products through which they can creatively express themselves, but…
By Sarah Albinson It has been such an incredible pleasure to work with the Big Sister program at Mary’s Place and get to know thirteen incredible women and their leaders. The participants ranged from ages 11 to 18 and came from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds including Somali, Native American, Puerto Rican, and African…
In the last few weeks I have had the privilege of working alongside women ages 11 to 18, at Mary’s Place! We have 13 total participants (including the leaders), and we are working on creating artistic individually-made booklets that tell our stories. The first page was a self portrait, the second described our families, the…
We’re four weeks into an eight-week Inverted Arts Exploration program at Mary’s Place – a transitional shelter for over 500 people (396 children, 150 adults in 92 family apartments) – in downtown Minneapolis. What an incredible honor it is for us to be involved in the lives of these amazing students! On Thursdays, Artist Mentor Sarah…