For thirteen years, we’ve been asking summer Art Exploration students at Hope Academy, “What’s RIGHT with you!?” The answer is that they are gifted, talented, and filled with creative potential just waiting to be unleashed! Inverted Arts has filled a creative arts programming need at Hope by providing professional Artist Mentors who lead sessions in…
What a gift to be able to spend time with our Kenyan Business Partners Seth Luchemo, Yvonne Asunnah, and Kevin Fraji (L-R above) at Brackenhurst Conference Center in Limuru, Kenya last month. After three years limited to online communication due to covid, it was so good to be together again! Each of these talented entrepreneurs…
These business leaders, Art Camp Directors, Artist Mentors, assistant mentors and scholarship recipients all have one thing in common: they were once students at the Mathare Art Camp!
We just wrapped up our thirteenth Art Camp in the Mathare Valley, Kenya in partnership with Mathare Community Outreach! This year’s theme was “I Am God’s Masterpiece” and a beautiful week of creativity ended with a Showcase celebration where students presented their artistic work. The Art Camp was led by our Kenyan business partners and…
This year’s Montrose Church Pasadena-Bresee Campus Art Camp, “Live in Color,” just wrapped up with an incredible Showcase on Friday night. During the week, students in 1st – 5th grades enjoyed creative sessions in percussion, improv, dance, choir and visual art. Students in 6th – 8th grades explored filmmaking, photography and songwriting! It was an…
Can you believe it’s been thirteen summers of Art Exploration programs with Hope Academy!?! This year’s program included classes in songwriting, filmmaking, theater, dance and visual art and concluded with an amazing Showcase where we all celebrated the creative achievements of the talented students at Hope! Enjoy some of the pics and sounds below! Photos…
THANK YOU for helping us pass our goal and raise $26,222 for our scholarship program and small business partners!!! Thank you to everyone who came out to our Dessert Nights in Maple Grove, MN, to Joe Davis and D’Viaughn Smith for performing, to Church of the Open Door, Sherwin and Nancy Vischer and family, and…
We recently wrapped up an Art Exploration program at Columbia Academy in NE Minneapolis led by Artist Mentor Joe Davis. Here’s what Joe writes: “The students at Columbia are full of creativity and curiosity! We started our sessions with personal check-ins and several rounds of fun writing prompts like Lightning Poetry, exploring their passions and…
Hello Mark and the Inverted arts Team, I hope this email finds you well. On behalf of the MCE organization, I would like to express our deepest gratitude for your generous support in facilitating our recent Art Camp. The success of the camp would not have been possible without the resources and time that were contributed. Your…
By Seth Luchemo – Director at Recreation Factory Arts. After months of discussions and planning, the Created 2 Create Art Camp at Mathare Children’s Education organized by Inverted Arts Kenya Mentors with the help and support of Mark and the Inverted Arts team, finally happened May 1-5, 2023. The participants were between the ages of…