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