Layna Lewis
Founding Director,
Artist, Educator, Activist
Layna collaborates with youth, artists, & activists through social practice strategies
to create modern myth and archetypes, through narrative, performance and ritual.
Expressive Arts, dance, theater, immersive tech, design, mural, film, and sculpture.
Together we activate community in the process of making meaningful connections
as a means to heal ourselves from the wounds of trauma we survive
historically, structurally and collectively.
Layna develops and directs collaborative projects that provide access to arts to individuals and communities facing barriers imposed by oppressive systems.
Becoming the person they desperately needed as a child and young adult.
is their core practice. Together we manifest the world we imagine
through critical excavation of dominance and oppressive systems
to decolonize external and internal systems
using the process of creative expression to heal, process
and release the wounds of trauma.
Let's get Free!
earthdance coLLECTIVE
Rashad Pridgen Kemba Shannon Kayla Banks Olaoye Onipede Nina Lewis
Lola Lewis Layna Lewis Oro Santiago Belinda Washington Amie Sowe Bre' Moody
2023 Open signal Producer Cohort
Rashad Pridgen Kayla Banks Layna Lewis Bre' Moody Antwuan Lamar Robinson Leu Day
Black History Remix
Layna Lewis Andrea White Lola Lewis Nina Lewis Hillary Buffalo
Oro Santiago Quay Matthews Mic Crenshaw Amenta Aboyo Kalimah Abioto Chata Addy
Norman Sylvester LaRhonda Steele Charles Robertson Jasmine Adams Alex Daniel Adams
Billy Vladimir Orion Kamal Gio Rasheed Kedan Jenee' Rona Sanaa
ARTIST INTERNS
Lola Lewis Cheyenne Fischer Josefina Belay
Quay Matthews Nina Lewis Ocean
Rae Amari Smith Oro Santiago
Alex Fischel Isabella Gillespie
Mac Sledge Holland Widman
resident ARTISTs
Kemba Shannon Rashad Pridgen Kayla Banks Bre' Moody Justin Phillip Charles Robertson
Nina Lewis Oro Santiago Lola Lewis Oloaoye Onipede Belinda Washington
Zelos Marchandt Windy Patmon-Cole