Sign Our Artists' Statement: Take the people without homes and put them in the homes without people.
Learn more about the statement and add your name to those of 280 signators from 88 cities. ... see all signers
End homelessness, don't manage it. Here's how.
1. Stop talking about shelters as housing
2. Overcome the poverty pimps by bringing the voices of the unhoused to the front...Read the 14 steps to end homelessness
We have had 248 artists appear on our Zoom shows
Iris DeAnda
poet
Kemal Cilengir
StreetwiseLA photographer
Cassandra Lane
author of We Are Bridges / Editor in Chief of LA Parent
Iona Morris
filmmaker/television and theater director
Naibe Reynoso
author of How To Fold A Taco
Elynar Moreno
Professor of Sociology / Southwest College
Emile Poree
guitarist/singer
Ivan Salinas
poet
Milagro Jones
poet/musician
Brian Cross (aka BPlus)
author of It's Not About a Salary and Ghost Notes
Lee Herrick
Calfornia state poet laureate
Aaron Estrada
artist (3B crew)
Dani Dodge
artist
Vincent Cooper
poet
Tanya Ko Hong
poet
Tori Eldridge
author of Dance Among the Flames
Neil Shigley
artist
Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
photographer
Eric Nusbaum
author of Stealing Home
Lydia Theron Ware
poet, editor of Cartless
Madeliene Spencer
Boca de Oro Festival
Steph Cha
author
Fabian Debora
artist/executive director, Homeboy Art Academy
Besskepp
Founder of A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Alessandra Moctezuma
Mesa College Gallery director / muralist
Pocha Pena
Media Arts Santa Ana
Kimberly Duran
painter
Stacey Fayant
traditional indigenous tattoo artist
Joaquin Jimenez
hip-hop artist/studio and record label owner
Jonah Elijah
muralist
Crystal Salas
Poet
Shaunte Palmer
The Harmony Project / trombonist
Adam Manley
furniture designer
Jimmy Recinos
poet/podcaster
Rusty
singer
Erika Akire Cohn
director of What You'll Remember
Luis Rodriguez
poet/author
Jennalyn Alonzo
musician
April Banks
Artist
Rizz Javier
photographer
Tamara Blue
A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Pedro Kos
director of Lead Me Home
Anna Simone Scott
filmmaker / director of Take My Heart
Mike Liorti
musician/podcaster
Jamal Hill
Swim Up Hill / champion Paralympic swimmer
Kevin Jones
singer
Jonathan Celiz
musician
Max Presneill
Artist/Curator at Torrance Art Museum
Tom Proctor
actor/musician
Aideed Medina
poet
Esteban Escobedo
rodeo trick roper
Alejandro Cohen
Director of DubLab
Scarlett Brais
lead singer, Scarlett and the Fever
Karina Nistal
singer/songwriter
Gill Sotu
san diego writers festival poet-in-residence
Madi Parsley
editor of Drifter
Lisbeth Coiman
poet
Thelma Reyes
author of Dearest Papa and When The Virus Came Calling
Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara
singer/writer/poet/star of Emmy-nominated film Con Safos
Oscar Martinez
artist
Oscar Magallanes
artist (3B crew)
Chinwe Oniah
filmmaker
Janet Owen Driggs
Director/curator Cypress College Art Gallery
Soraya Young-Pen
chalk artist
Randal Fisher
jazz saxophonist
True to the Universe
Social justice oriented classic rock band
Sara Harris
Poet
Shane Alexander
singer/songwriter
Robin Lee Riddell
pottery artist, gallery owner
Mike Scully
musician/band leader
David Davis
author of Wheels of Courage
Alkaid Ramirez
photographer
Sijia Chen
artist
Stephanie Serrano
poet / Director "Seeds of Peace"
Yenny Bernal
artist
Lou Matthews
author of Shaky Town
Jenny Kane
arts connection, san bernadino
Peppur Chambers
writer/producer/educator
Greg Bresnitz
host of food/music podcast
Alfredo Diaz
artist (3B crew)
Propaganda
poet
Jhoanna Belfer
Bel Canto Books in Long Beach
Nickie Black
filmmaker
Katisse Buckingham
jazz saxophone/flute; soundtrack composer
Janet Gonzalez
owner of Innovative Auto / poet
Dona Junta
Beyond the Facade podcast
Molly Trochez
artist
Jessica Gallion
poet
David A. Romero
poet
Ismael Pineda
percussionist
Kim Estes
actor
Miles Henry
actor/singer
Matt Sedillo
poet
Harvey Estrada
bassist / music professor at Compton College
Alixen Pham
Poet
Janna Ireland
author of Regarding Paul R. Williams
Jeff Hobbs
Author of Children of the State: Stories of Survial and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
Joselyn and Don
singer-songwriter duo
Sal Rosales
rapper
Christian Lozada
poet
Virginia Bulacio
poet/photographer
Samira Barragan
filmmaker
Mike Sonksen (aka Mike the Poet)
author of Letters To My City
Andru Defeye
poet laureate of Sacramento
Rachel AO
Singer
Katie Ruiz
artist
Rita Dunn
poet / artist / author
Chuck Nunley IV
hip hop artist/filmmaker/broadcaster
Roy Williams Jr.
filmmaker / actor
April Jones
filmmaker
Genevieve Anderson
filmmaker
Mary Scholz
singer/songwriter
Tricia Lopez
Poet/Podcaster
Cindy Romero
painter/poet
Theo Henderson
We The Unhoused podcast
Cati Porter
poet
Sammy Quetzalli
poet
Jessica Kim
Poet
Chris Pierce
singer/songwriter
Denise Sandoval
organizer of low rider events
Amilia K. Spicer
singer/songwriter
Anita Sugimura
Gizzy Bear Productions / director of Battlefield: Home
Tyrone Stokes
Dope Spot Studios / Pomona
Andrew McLees
photographer / FrozenWaste.land.com
Rahman Jamaal
Executive Director of Hip-Hop Congress
Jenni Alpert aka Cami & her birth father Don
singer/songwriter
Lynne Thompson
Los Angeles poet laureate
Wendy Maruyama
Artist and Furniture Designer
Agente
hip hop artist
Marlene Nancy Lopez
artist
Audrey Castellon
poet
Meetra Johansen
Founder of Huma House
Cathy Segal-Garcia
singer/producer
Melina Paris
writer at Random Lengths / podcaster
Jesenia Chavez
poet
Grant White
filmmaker
Shana Nys Dambrot
Arts Editor LA Weekly
Oleg Kagan
Co-author of Library Stories
Iz Gutierrez
director of They Call Us Sediciosos
Jill Carol
wrestling photographer
Raul Pacheco
guitarist, Ozomotli
Morgan Miller
artist/printmaker
Megan Greenough
singer
WillFlo (William Flores)
Director South Central Arts
Marcus Omari
Poetic Reform Party
Bintu Sol
singer/songwriter
Hayk Makhmuryan
art worker and community organizer with doodleswithoutborders.com
Bhavna Mehta
artist
Kate Maruyama
author of Family Solstice
Luis Antonio Pichardo
DSTL Arts
Hanna Kight Witham
Writer
Laura Warrell
author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Jason Luckett
singer/songwriter
Juanita Mantz
writer, podcaster, public defender
Janelle Brown
author of I'll Be You
Sati Kaur
filmmaker
Robyn McNair
Boca de Oro Festival
Charles
poet
Joshua Woolen
poet/filmmaker
Thrasher
Author of Head Bangin' Radio
Nic Reiner
Poet
Allison Moore Adams
painter
Brenda Vaca
poet
Jules Muck
graffiti artist
Ryane Nicole Granados
writer
Joe Hernandez-Kolski
actor/poet/comedian
Black Rose
founder of Zoom Black Magic Radio the world's first pirate radio station
Tina Orduno Calderon
singer/poet
Jeremiah Joe Ocanas
Lone Stars Entertainment
Peter J. Harris
writer
Hannah Sward
Author of Strip: A Memoir
Erin Yoshi
painter
Tawnee Lynn
French horn / Tawnee Lynn Music Services
Sean Hill
poet
Glynis Phillips
poet
Gustavo Arellano
author/podcaster/LA Times columnist
Jon Bruschke
writer/producer of Change the Game
Melissa Ritz
Served podcast / Performer
Scatterbrain
hip-hop artist
David Blumenkrantz
photographer
Chris Siders
poet / Sand and Sea Productions
Margaret Aichele
dA Gallery Director
Mayela Rodriguez
arts program manager, Blue Sky Center
Christina Ham
playwright (Nina Simone: Four Women)
Carvell Holloway
jazz trumpeter / head of music education at Dominguez High School in Compton
Alexis Rhone Fancher
poet
Annie Buckley
Executive Director, Prison Arts Collective
Alon Goldsmith
photographer
Nadia Hunter Bey
poet
Key Kool
hip-hop artist with the Visionaries
Erica Torres
musician
Julian Torres
mariachi singer
Joshua Collins
singer/songwriter / street preacher and homeless advocate in Orange County
Tongo Eisen-Martin
poet laureate of San Francisco
Anthony Parker
poet
Dale Maharidge
author of Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
Brooks Wachtel
TV writer / novelist
Joyce Logan
Gospel International
Nikolai Garcia
poet
Ernie Perez
lead singer of the Boxing Gandhis and founder of Rock A Mole Productions
Erniesto Cisneros
author of Efren Divided
Tony Lepre
guitarist in Attack of the Rising
Mark Pico
singer/songwriter
Lee Ballinger
author of Love and War: My First Thirty Years of Writing
Michael Schilf
director of Tears of the Field
Bryan Medina
former Fresno poet laureate
Stephen Snavely
director of Think Lovely Thoughts
Taylor Chapin
Murals of La Jolla
Eye Matter
arts program
The Last Letter
writer/podcaster
Deborah Aschheim
artist
Briana Munoz
poet/writer/Aztec dancer
Hiram Sims
Sims Library of Poetry
Armond Kinnard
poet/storyteller
Joey Castanon
Sign spinner
Abel Salas
Publisher of Brooklyn & Boyle / poet
Evelyn McDonnell
writer
Nancy Woo
Surprise the Line / poet
Amos Adelone
musician
3sixo
hip-hop artist
Asia Yu
Director, No Easy Props
Nyarae Francis
poet
Caesar K Avelar
poet laureate of Pomona
Rebecca Contreras
artist
Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana
muralist/filmmaker
Astrid
poet / author of Through the Soil in My Skin
Ruth Nolan
Poet
Ra Avis
writer
Ant Black
professor at San Bernadino Valley College / poet
Joshua Silverstein
poet/actor/beatboxer
L.A. N8v
hip-hop artist
Carolina Rivera Escamilla
writer
Susan Hayden
author of Now You Are a Missing Person
Angelina Saenz
La Palabra / poet
Carla Silveira Hernandez
Musical artist
Claire Hannah Collins
director of Hollywood's Finest
Black and Brown Movement
hip-hop crew
Diana L. Sanchez
artist
Jim Daichendt
co-curator, Street Legacy: SoCal Style Masters
Carla Vega
poet/singer/writer/actor
Yago Cura
co-author of Library Stories
Riston Diggs
rapper
Kevin Sandbloom
singer/songwriter
Andrew Thompson
The Little Gallery (San Bernadino)
Bumdog Torres
street photographer
James Tyner
Fresno's first poet laureate
Tama Brisbane
Stockton poet laureate
Miri Hunter
Thought Theater
Artists United to End Homelessness is a trailblazer blazing a path of interconnection and lessons of humanity! -- Sean Hill (Actor/Poet/Speaker from Los Angeles)
