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How We Serve Community
Roho Collective builds spaces to engage the community to support art making, art healing, art therapy, connection, dialogue, civil discourse, and education through the creative lens.
How We Serve Artists
Roho provides business development for entrepreneurs and artists. We provide a host of workshops that are all led by people of color. Topics span from tax preparation, grant writing, social media marketing, legal documents and contracts, to name a few. These workshops are free and open to Collective members and the larger creative and entrepreneur community. By providing education and support in key business development areas, we are building power that enables them to reach goals of becoming sustainable off their craft and businesses. Roho also acts as a liaison between the larger art world and connecting artists to more robust opportunities than they may have not been able to gain access to one their own. Such as grants, showings, events, partnerships, specialized projects, contracts and jobs.
Art Heals Programming
Our collective members were the first group of artists at the scene of 38th and Chicago. Instead of public murals, we knew that we needed to create space for the community to vent, heal and create. We asked a local art store for canvas and supplies, and hung canvas outside at the Chicago Fire Art Center, (right next to Cup Foods). We provided space to our grieving community to heal through art. This ignited a new organizational initiative we call, Art Heals. We expanded the vision of what we started on 38th and Chicago. To date, we have created over 10 Art Heals events throughout the community.
Art heals events provided, and kids art therapy tents, with certified art therapists, certified circle leaders who provide healing conversations, and workout instructors that provided classes. In addition, artists led community murals and we provided free food, music, entertainment and free bags of art supplies for kids and families and have given out over 500 bags to date. Through the Art Heals programming, we have created over 20 community murals, touched 600 people with therapeutic art activities, gathered over 100 volunteers and countless donations, partnerships and sponsors to aid in continuing the work.