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