A Wilmington native gathering local artists, board governance, and grassroots credibility into a single donation-supported home for creative practice.
What it lacks is an entry-tier arts academy where cost is never the barrier. LunaWilm fills that gap with donation-based access to music, painting, and a rotating monthly art method.
Programs are taught by paid local artists. Programming is multicultural by design. The doors are open to every age and every income.
We are a Delaware nonprofit corporation pursuing 501(c)(3) recognition. Governed by an independent board. Built for the long haul.
Luna expands artistic equity in Wilmington by providing donation-supported creative learning — music, painting, and rotating multicultural arts experiences for people of all ages — centering local artists, cultural inclusion, and the belief that everyone deserves space, tools, and community to create.
A Wilmington where every person — regardless of age, income, background, or experience — has access to the joy, discipline, healing, and opportunity of making art.
Luna exists to remove barriers between everyday people and artistic creation. A child touching an instrument for the first time. An adult returning to painting after years away. A local artist teaching, and being paid. A community gathering across cultures through creativity.
Creative education should not depend on wealth, connections, or formal training.
All ages, cultures, skill levels, and identities are welcome — without conditions.
Wilmington artists, musicians, teachers, students, service workers, and small business owners shape the organization.
The center honors many traditions, sounds, styles, and creative methods — programmed by design, not afterthought.
Local artists are treated as educators, cultural workers, and community builders. They are paid for their labor.
No one is excluded because they cannot pay. Sliding scale, pay-what-you-can, and free options are the norm — not the exception.
The goal is participation, confidence, visibility, and connection — not elitism. Showing up matters more than polish.
If a choice helps Luna grow but doesn't serve Wilmington's people, we don't make it.
A 32-year-old Wilmington native with deep family, service-industry, and cultural roots in the city.
Her network spans hospitality, local arts, and small business — built-in audience reach, partnership pathways, and grassroots credibility from day one. The kind of foundation a new arts space usually has to spend its first three years building.
Luna emerges from a simple observation: Wilmington is full of creative potential, and a population that mostly experiences art as audience rather than as maker. Private lessons, after-school enrichment, adult continuing-ed — they run hundreds of dollars a month. For working families, service-industry households, and adults returning to creative practice later in life, those numbers function as a wall.
A nonprofit has no private owner. Luna isn't mine. It's governed by an independent board and exists for public benefit. My role is to hold the door open behind me.
Alejandra serves as Founder and proposed Executive Director. Compensation is set, approved, and reviewed by independent board members, documented as reasonable, and kept fully separate from any benefit to adjacent businesses — including Over the Border Tacos, the hospitality anchor next door to the proposed home.
Conflict of interest policy. Annual disclosures. Recusal protocols. Clean lines. The trust we ask Wilmington to give us, we earn every quarter.
The founding board adopts bylaws, a conflict-of-interest policy, financial controls, gift acceptance rules, a youth safety policy, and an artist payment policy — all before any serious fundraising begins.
Bring expertise, lived experience, and a willingness to roll up your sleeves. Founding board service is a two-year commitment.
Express interestEvery founding donor, board candidate, sponsoring business, instructor, and volunteer makes the first year possible.