The Sunflower Ball serves as the annual fundraiser to benefit Houston Met Dance’s mission, vision and programming.
Thank You to Our 2026 Sponsors
Cecilia Winters-Morris
Alice Guidry-Anderson
Croshelle Harris
Chris Wernli
Fancy’s Cocktail Lounge
Silent Auction and Raffle Donors
2026 Honoree:
jhon r. stronks
Over the past two decades Houston Met Dance’s Director of Programming jhon r. stronks has been diligently tending the garden that cultivates the blossoms that make the ever evolving bouquet that is Houston Met Dance.
Houston Met Dance is Honored to celebrate jhon as a Queer Artist whose independent choreographies and Collaborations that have made a lasting impact on Houston’s Choreographic Landscape, as a Dance Teacher whose Jazz and Modern Dance classes ignite joy and engage confidence in dancers of all ages, and as an Arts Administrator whose behind the scenes efforts have fostered some of Houston’s most supportive dance focused programs.