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 282 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
Erika Akire Cohn
director of What You'll Remember
Ismael Pineda
percussionist
James Tyner
Fresno's first poet laureate
Joselyn and Don
singer-songwriter duo
Taylor Chapin
Murals of La Jolla
Stephanie Serrano
poet / Director "Seeds of Peace"
Joyce Logan
Gospel International
Tricia Lopez
Poet/Podcaster
WillFlo (William Flores)
Director South Central Arts
Key Kool
hip-hop artist with the Visionaries
Jessica Gallion
poet
Nadia Hunter Bey
poet
Miri Hunter
Thought Theater
Alejandro Cohen
Director of DubLab
Mike Liorti
musician/podcaster
Emile Poree
guitarist/singer
Rebecca Contreras
artist
Steph Cha
author
Erin Yoshi
painter
Tori Eldridge
author of Dance Among the Flames
Glynis Phillips
poet
Janelle Brown
author of I'll Be You
Sammy Quetzalli
poet
Molly Trochez
artist
Peter J. Harris
writer
Yago Cura
co-author of Library Stories
Sal Rosales
rapper
Aideed Medina
poet
Anthony Parker
poet
Soraya Young-Pen
chalk artist
Tamara Blue
A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
L.A. N8v
hip-hop artist
Ivan Salinas
poet
Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
photographer
Jeremiah Joe Ocanas
Lone Stars Entertainment
April Banks
Artist
Sara Harris
Poet
April Jones
filmmaker
Jason Luckett
singer/songwriter
Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana
muralist/filmmaker
Lou Matthews
author of Shaky Town
Rita Dunn
poet / artist / author
Alexis Rhone Fancher
poet
Brenda Vaca
poet
Naibe Reynoso
author of How To Fold A Taco
Alon Goldsmith
photographer
Joshua Collins
singer/songwriter / street preacher and homeless advocate in Orange County
Janet Gonzalez
owner of Innovative Auto / poet
Joshua Silverstein
poet/actor/beatboxer
Lydia Theron Ware
poet, editor of Cartless
Tama Brisbane
Stockton poet laureate
Kevin Jones
singer
Chinwe Oniah
filmmaker
Jill Carol
wrestling photographer
Greg Bresnitz
host of food/music podcast
Erica Torres
musician
Sati Kaur
filmmaker
Joshua Woolen
poet/filmmaker
Dona Junta
Beyond the Facade podcast
Neil Shigley
artist
Propaganda
poet
Lisbeth Coiman
poet
Aaron Estrada
artist (3B crew)
Tawnee Lynn
French horn / Tawnee Lynn Music Services
Jim Daichendt
co-curator, Street Legacy: SoCal Style Masters
Dani Dodge
artist
Randal Fisher
jazz saxophonist
Amilia K. Spicer
singer/songwriter
Carvell Holloway
jazz trumpeter / head of music education at Dominguez High School in Compton
Annie Buckley
Executive Director, Prison Arts Collective
Robyn McNair
Boca de Oro Festival
Ryane Nicole Granados
writer
Andrew McLees
photographer / FrozenWaste.land.com
Rusty
singer
Janna Ireland
author of Regarding Paul R. Williams
Kim Estes
actor
Jimmy Recinos
poet/podcaster
Evelyn McDonnell
writer
Diana L. Sanchez
artist
Briana Munoz
poet/writer/Aztec dancer
Sean Hill
poet
Alkaid Ramirez
photographer
Stephen Snavely
director of Think Lovely Thoughts
Black Rose
founder of Zoom Black Magic Radio the world's first pirate radio station
Cassandra Lane
author of We Are Bridges / Editor in Chief of LA Parent
Charles
poet
Caesar K Avelar
poet laureate of Pomona
Madeliene Spencer
Boca de Oro Festival
David Blumenkrantz
photographer
Iz Gutierrez
director of They Call Us Sediciosos
Margaret Aichele
dA Gallery Director
Shane Alexander
singer/songwriter
Yenny Bernal
artist
Melina Paris
writer at Random Lengths / podcaster
Jessica Kim
Poet
Andru Defeye
poet laureate of Sacramento
Mayela Rodriguez
arts program manager, Blue Sky Center
Marcus Omari
Poetic Reform Party
Hayk Makhmuryan
art worker and community organizer with doodleswithoutborders.com
Tina Orduno Calderon
singer/poet
Mike Scully
musician/band leader
Christian Lozada
poet
Deborah Aschheim
artist
Oleg Kagan
Co-author of Library Stories
3sixo
hip-hop artist
Chris Siders
poet / Sand and Sea Productions
Riston Diggs
rapper
Abel Salas
Publisher of Brooklyn & Boyle / poet
Jonah Elijah
muralist
Alfredo Diaz
artist (3B crew)
Shaunte Palmer
The Harmony Project / trombonist
Anna Simone Scott
filmmaker / director of Take My Heart
Sijia Chen
artist
Nikolai Garcia
poet
Luis Rodriguez
poet/author
Eye Matter
arts program
Christina Ham
playwright (Nina Simone: Four Women)
Madi Parsley
editor of Drifter
Gustavo Arellano
author/podcaster/LA Times columnist
Carla Silveira Hernandez
Musical artist
Mark Pico
singer/songwriter
Laura Warrell
author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara
singer/writer/poet/star of Emmy-nominated film Con Safos
Brooks Wachtel
TV writer / novelist
Armond Kinnard
poet/storyteller
Eric Nusbaum
author of Stealing Home
Joe Hernandez-Kolski
actor/poet/comedian
Melissa Ritz
Served podcast / Performer
Cati Porter
poet
David Davis
author of Wheels of Courage
Nickie Black
filmmaker
Audrey Castellon
poet
Kevin Sandbloom
singer/songwriter
Besskepp
Founder of A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Allison Moore Adams
painter
Jules Muck
graffiti artist
Angelina Saenz
La Palabra / poet
Ernie Perez
lead singer of the Boxing Gandhis and founder of Rock A Mole Productions
Bryan Medina
former Fresno poet laureate
Hanna Kight Witham
Writer
Wendy Maruyama
Artist and Furniture Designer
Max Presneill
Artist/Curator at Torrance Art Museum
Ruth Nolan
Poet
Robin Lee Riddell
pottery artist, gallery owner
Black and Brown Movement
hip-hop crew
Virginia Bulacio
poet/photographer
Jhoanna Belfer
Bel Canto Books in Long Beach
Esteban Escobedo
rodeo trick roper
Luis Antonio Pichardo
DSTL Arts
Alixen Pham
Poet
Tony Lepre
guitarist in Attack of the Rising
Agente
hip hop artist
Mary Scholz
singer/songwriter
Mike Sonksen (aka Mike the Poet)
author of Letters To My City
Jenni Alpert aka Cami & her birth father Don
singer/songwriter
Jenny Kane
arts connection, san bernadino
Nic Reiner
Poet
Harvey Estrada
bassist / music professor at Compton College
Tom Proctor
actor/musician
Katie Ruiz
artist
Ant Black
professor at San Bernadino Valley College / poet
Miles Henry
actor/singer
Oscar Martinez
artist
Rahman Jamaal
Executive Director of Hip-Hop Congress
Morgan Miller
artist/printmaker
Jeff Hobbs
Author of Children of the State: Stories of Survial and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
Bumdog Torres
street photographer
Bhavna Mehta
artist
Susan Hayden
author of Now You Are a Missing Person
Matt Sedillo
poet
Oscar Magallanes
artist (3B crew)
Marlene Nancy Lopez
artist
Lee Herrick
Calfornia state poet laureate
Samira Barragan
filmmaker
The Last Letter
writer/podcaster
Fabian Debora
artist/executive director, Homeboy Art Academy
Erniesto Cisneros
author of Efren Divided
Chris Pierce
singer/songwriter
Claire Hannah Collins
director of Hollywood's Finest
Kemal Cilengir
StreetwiseLA photographer
Roy Williams Jr.
filmmaker / actor
Bintu Sol
singer/songwriter
Gill Sotu
san diego writers festival poet-in-residence
Shana Nys Dambrot
Arts Editor LA Weekly
Thrasher
Author of Head Bangin' Radio
Scatterbrain
hip-hop artist
Tongo Eisen-Martin
poet laureate of San Francisco
Milagro Jones
poet/musician
Carolina Rivera Escamilla
writer
Kimberly Duran
painter
Scarlett Brais
lead singer, Scarlett and the Fever
Tanya Ko Hong
poet
Brian Cross (aka BPlus)
author of It's Not About a Salary and Ghost Notes
Iris DeAnda
poet
Pedro Kos
director of Lead Me Home
Stacey Fayant
traditional indigenous tattoo artist
Jennalyn Alonzo
musician
True to the Universe
Social justice oriented classic rock band
David A. Romero
poet
Tyrone Stokes
Dope Spot Studios / Pomona
Cindy Romero
painter/poet
Carla Vega
poet/singer/writer/actor
Rachel AO
Singer
Juanita Mantz
writer, podcaster, public defender
Julian Torres
mariachi singer
Nyarae Francis
poet
Chuck Nunley IV
hip hop artist/filmmaker/broadcaster
Kate Maruyama
author of Family Solstice
Joey Castanon
Sign spinner
Andrew Thompson
The Little Gallery (San Bernadino)
Nancy Woo
Surprise the Line / poet
Raul Pacheco
guitarist, Ozomotli
Michael Schilf
director of Tears of the Field
Ra Avis
writer
Jesenia Chavez
poet
Dale Maharidge
author of Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
Meetra Johansen
Founder of Huma House
Megan Greenough
singer
Joaquin Jimenez
hip-hop artist/studio and record label owner
Jonathan Celiz
musician
Adam Manley
furniture designer
Katisse Buckingham
jazz saxophone/flute; soundtrack composer
Grant White
filmmaker
Jamal Hill
Swim Up Hill / champion Paralympic swimmer
Astrid
poet / author of Through the Soil in My Skin
Cathy Segal-Garcia
singer/producer
Rizz Javier
photographer
Lee Ballinger
author of Love and War: My First Thirty Years of Writing
Iona Morris
filmmaker/television and theater director
Theo Henderson
We The Unhoused podcast
Hannah Sward
Author of Strip: A Memoir
Anita Sugimura
Gizzy Bear Productions / director of Battlefield: Home
Peppur Chambers
writer/producer/educator
Crystal Salas
Poet
Denise Sandoval
organizer of low rider events
Genevieve Anderson
filmmaker
Vincent Cooper
poet
Karina Nistal
singer/songwriter
Thelma Reyes
author of Dearest Papa and When The Virus Came Calling
Janet Owen Driggs
Director/curator Cypress College Art Gallery
Lynne Thompson
Los Angeles poet laureate
Alessandra Moctezuma
Mesa College Gallery director / muralist
Pocha Pena
Media Arts Santa Ana
Asia Yu
Director, No Easy Props
Amos Adelone
musician
Elynar Moreno
Professor of Sociology / Southwest College
Jon Bruschke
writer/producer of Change the Game
Hiram Sims
Sims Library of Poetry
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)
