Announcing our 2022 Summer Institute cohort & NEA award!

The NEA supports Luna's Professional Learning

through $35,000 Art Works grant

Luna Dance Institute has been approved for a $35,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support our Dance Teaching & Learning Studies through Professional Learning. This project is among 1,125 projects across America totaling more than $26.6 million that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2022 funding.

“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts and cultural organizations throughout the nation with these grants, including Luna Dance Institute, providing opportunities for all of us to live artful lives,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “The arts contribute to our individual well-being, the well-being of our communities, and to our local economies. The arts are also crucial to helping us make sense of our circumstances from different perspectives as we emerge from the pandemic and plan for a shared new normal informed by our examined experience.”

Along with Luna's calendar of Professional Learning opportunities, this grant supports Luna's Summer Institute 2022, and ongoing mentorship and leadership development of our 240 Summer Institute alumni.

Congratulations to our

2022-23 Summer Institute Cohort

SI participants are selected through a competitive application process and commit to a year of intensive professional development. “This dedicated and resilient cohort comes to us after 2+ years of teaching through the pandemic and multiple socio-political challenges,” shares Professional Learning Manager Jochelle Pereña. “They seek to cultivate curiosity, play and joy through child-centered teaching, and to invest in their own creativity as a path towards transformation and systemic change.”

Luna proudly welcomes the following 12 educators to our 21st Summer Institute: