Roses Too is an artist-led organization that joins the culture-making labor of artists to the campaign needs of SEIU’s Fight For $15 in order to make the struggle visible, bold, and distributable. Art shows us the imagined futures where all people are safe and their labor is valued. Our collective imagination will realize these visions.
OUR MISSION is to boldly illuminate the stories workers, and envision the future of a unionized workplace with the transformative power of art.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Workshops provide the space for workers to stretch their imaginations, build relationships in new contexts and to share and develop their stories while learning tangible skills that can be utilized for action artwork. Their creative energy is rewarded with public viewings, performances, and at actions.
VISIBILITY: The California fast food worker struggle is depicted and honored in dynamic and evolving imagery. Series of postcards and posters, as well as banners and other deployable artworks amplify worker demands at actions. Visibility also enters the public sphere as well as fine art community with public installations and gallery exhibitions.
ART PRODUCTION: Roses Too collaborates with local artists, designs, and produces a range of artworks for use in actions, publicity, and in public spaces. The consistent presence of high quality, vibrant, and diverse visuals makes the struggle visible, and also importantly validates workers’ experiences to know that they are being seen and represented in thoughtful and beautiful ways.
ARTIST NETWORK: Roses Too continually invites engaged artists to develop new projects and workshops. Our program develops artists as collaborators and organizers, and embeds arts workers in the labor struggle. These valuable connections bring stunning visuals to the FF15 organizing, and also introduce labor justice principles into fine art institutions and cultural contexts. Arts workers learn from and relate to the organizing work in the fast food industry.