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