● About
The Vision:
A space for culture. A platform for artists.
A catalyst for community.
● Our Mission & Philosophy
Our Principles
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Artists at the Center
Roho is a platform and a consolidated voice for artists of color in the Twin Cities, built to serve the people making the work first.
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Sustainable Over Starving
We open doors through exhibit opportunities, a retail marketplace, and workshops and conferences, so creative practice can grow into a real livelihood.
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Advocacy as Responsibility
We take it upon ourselves to educate our communities on the value of the arts and to advocate for artists, locally and nationally.
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Healing By Making
Art is how we gather, grieve, and heal together, from canvas set up in the street to murals across the city.
Our Founders
Meet our executive team and founders, Christopheraaron & Cara Deanes
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Christopheraaron Deanes, Vice-President/Program Director - is a Twin Cities visual artist, educator and community connector. Through his art, his goal is to create conversations and environments that challenge perceptions and assumptions.
He has found beautiful ways to blend his love of youth, art and community through his work and spends a lot of time creating with the help of youth participation. The aesthetic of Chrisopheraaron’s work represents conceptual art as a result of constructed and planned processes, but as a painter, the paint creates its own epilogue to the narrative of his work.
Christopheraaron’s body of work in the Twin Cities surpasses far beyond painting, he a public art enamellist, curator of spaces and conversations and leader in the art scene.
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Cara Deanes, CEO - is a cultivator, activator and curator of mind, spirit and soul that aims to create spaces and opportunities for individuals to become all they are created to be. Cara’s professional career started in youth development and has grown from there.
With a strong mind for business, she landed in the development field, doing grant writing, fundraising and donor relations. With this skill set, Cara began offering services to friends and community members that were trying to start and or scale their businesses, plan events and pursue entrepreneurial ventures.
Cara thrives in community grass root settings that are organic and with people who want to create genuine and relevant impact that will be a positive force to make our world better.
● Our Story
What We’re Building
The Roho Collective Gallery & Cultural Arts Center will function as a living ecosystem for artists.
It will feature rotating exhibitions by local and national artists of color, retail opportunities that create direct income for creatives, professional development and programming, and a shared community space available to partner organizations for culturally rooted events.
Unlike traditional galleries, this space is intentionally built to bridge access, visibility, and economic opportunity, all under one roof.