About
Sommer Renaldo is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator based in Columbus, Ohio. Her work creates immersive experiences where people are invited to reveal, explore, and celebrate who they truly are—through visual art, performance, embodied practice, and transformational spaces.
Born and raised between Florida and New York, Sommer has lived in Columbus for nearly two decades, cultivating creative community and developing projects that bridge art, personal growth, and collective experience.
TRANSFORMATIONAL WORK
In 2014, Sommer co-founded Next Level Trainings, a transformational school rooted in human potential and group awareness traditions. For over a decade, she led operations, events, and facilitation, guiding programs centered on self-inquiry, communication, leadership, and personal development. During that time, the community raised over $5 million for charitable causes—reflecting her belief that inner growth and social impact are deeply interconnected.
EMBODIED PRACTICE
Sommer’s work is deeply informed by embodied awareness. She is a certified Trance Dance facilitator through Wilbert Alix’s lineage (Portugal, 2016), and develops guided movement experiences that support emotional release, intuitive insight, and connection to the body’s inherent wisdom.
VISUAL ART
As a visual artist, Sommer works extensively with collage and symbolic imagery. She is the creator of The Grand Reveal Oracle Deck, a collage-based exploration of archetypes, identity and ways of being. She is currently developing a new body of work expanding this practice into paper-mâché altar installations, translating two-dimensional imagery into immersive sculptural environments.
PERFORMANCE
Sommer is the creative director and visionary behind Shakedown Circus (501c3), an immersive performance project in production since 2014. Guided by the philosophy “do good by being bad” and the invitation to ENJOY EVERY BODY, the work blends humor, sensuality, spectacle, and art to dissolve shame and celebrate radical expression. Shakedown Circus has raised over $13,000 for charitable organizations.
DESIGN
Her background in graphic design continues to shape the visual language of her work. Prior to focusing fully on her artistic practice, Sommer worked as a designer for twelve years, and in 2024 created the Columbus Museum of Art’s first-ever Pride parade float—reflecting her commitment to joyful public art and cultural celebration.
FOUNDATION
She is also the founder of JoyBinge, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to creating more joy in the world through performance and entertainment, with Shakedown Circus as its premier project.
PERSONAL
Above all, Sommer is a mother to a beautiful, wild teenage son who continues to inspire her sense of curiosity, courage, and imagination.
PRACTICE
Across She is also the founder of JoyBinge, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to creating more joy in the world through performance and entertainment, with Shakedown Circus as its premier project.ent experiences, art installations, and circus stages, Sommer’s work is an invitation to explore, connect, and grow. She believes each of us carries the creative potential to shape our stories and participate meaningfully in the worlds we share.
PRESS AND MEDIA