The mission of Creative Labor: Queer Visual Artists’ Working Group is to exhibit, interpret and document Queer visual culture that centers social justice and cultural equity. Creative Labor advances its goals through creating, interpreting, disseminating and documenting Queer visual art and culture; by organizing events that advance visual artists’ careers; and by utilizing the visual arts to build and strengthen California’s historically marginalized LGBTQ communities.

Creative Labor’s exhibitions and interpretive programs enable artistic work deeply rooted in and reflective of the Queer arts community to reach a wider public, and increase the SF Bay Area LGBTQ community’s access to work by Queer visual artists. Interpretive programs, organized in collaboration with non-LGBTQ museums and universities, connect mainstream and LGBTQ audiences and enable these institutions to incorporate the work of emerging and established Queer visual artists into their programs.