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 281 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
Dani Dodge
artist
Matt Sedillo
poet
Evelyn McDonnell
writer
Theo Henderson
We The Unhoused podcast
Janna Ireland
author of Regarding Paul R. Williams
Nickie Black
filmmaker
Joe Hernandez-Kolski
actor/poet/comedian
Joselyn and Don
singer-songwriter duo
Sara Harris
Poet
True to the Universe
Social justice oriented classic rock band
Chris Siders
poet / Sand and Sea Productions
April Jones
filmmaker
Andrew Thompson
The Little Gallery (San Bernadino)
Tyrone Stokes
Dope Spot Studios / Pomona
Kevin Sandbloom
singer/songwriter
Gill Sotu
san diego writers festival poet-in-residence
Kemal Cilengir
StreetwiseLA photographer
Charles
poet
Virginia Bulacio
poet/photographer
Ernie Perez
lead singer of the Boxing Gandhis and founder of Rock A Mole Productions
Jesenia Chavez
poet
Erica Torres
musician
Lou Matthews
author of Shaky Town
Rizz Javier
photographer
Alfredo Diaz
artist (3B crew)
Oscar Magallanes
artist (3B crew)
Miles Henry
actor/singer
Melissa Ritz
Served podcast / Performer
Briana Munoz
poet/writer/Aztec dancer
Tamara Blue
A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Joey Castanon
Sign spinner
Karina Nistal
singer/songwriter
Erika Akire Cohn
director of What You'll Remember
Eric Nusbaum
author of Stealing Home
Elynar Moreno
Professor of Sociology / Southwest College
Sean Hill
poet
WillFlo (William Flores)
Director South Central Arts
Alejandro Cohen
Director of DubLab
Bhavna Mehta
artist
Chuck Nunley IV
hip hop artist/filmmaker/broadcaster
Mike Sonksen (aka Mike the Poet)
author of Letters To My City
David Davis
author of Wheels of Courage
Brenda Vaca
poet
Deborah Aschheim
artist
Audrey Castellon
poet
Roy Williams Jr.
filmmaker / actor
Eye Matter
arts program
Glynis Phillips
poet
Ryane Nicole Granados
writer
Bintu Sol
singer/songwriter
Jules Muck
graffiti artist
Brian Cross (aka BPlus)
author of It's Not About a Salary and Ghost Notes
Allison Moore Adams
painter
Hannah Sward
Author of Strip: A Memoir
Key Kool
hip-hop artist with the Visionaries
Erniesto Cisneros
author of Efren Divided
Oleg Kagan
Co-author of Library Stories
Asia Yu
Director, No Easy Props
Caesar K Avelar
poet laureate of Pomona
Shaunte Palmer
The Harmony Project / trombonist
Aideed Medina
poet
Sammy Quetzalli
poet
Rachel AO
Singer
Susan Hayden
author of Now You Are a Missing Person
Angelina Saenz
La Palabra / poet
Jill Carol
wrestling photographer
The Last Letter
writer/podcaster
Grant White
filmmaker
Robyn McNair
Boca de Oro Festival
Pocha Pena
Media Arts Santa Ana
Jamal Hill
Swim Up Hill / champion Paralympic swimmer
Besskepp
Founder of A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Sal Rosales
rapper
Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana
muralist/filmmaker
Shane Alexander
singer/songwriter
Wendy Maruyama
Artist and Furniture Designer
Marlene Nancy Lopez
artist
Shana Nys Dambrot
Arts Editor LA Weekly
Nancy Woo
Surprise the Line / poet
Alessandra Moctezuma
Mesa College Gallery director / muralist
Iona Morris
filmmaker/television and theater director
Jon Bruschke
writer/producer of Change the Game
Ivan Salinas
poet
Christian Lozada
poet
Stephen Snavely
director of Think Lovely Thoughts
Laura Warrell
author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Joshua Silverstein
poet/actor/beatboxer
Alon Goldsmith
photographer
Tanya Ko Hong
poet
Brooks Wachtel
TV writer / novelist
Bryan Medina
former Fresno poet laureate
Sijia Chen
artist
Nic Reiner
Poet
David Blumenkrantz
photographer
Black and Brown Movement
hip-hop crew
Jeremiah Joe Ocanas
Lone Stars Entertainment
Meetra Johansen
Founder of Huma House
April Banks
Artist
Yenny Bernal
artist
Jessica Gallion
poet
Dona Junta
Beyond the Facade podcast
Chinwe Oniah
filmmaker
Milagro Jones
poet/musician
L.A. N8v
hip-hop artist
Rahman Jamaal
Executive Director of Hip-Hop Congress
Joyce Logan
Gospel International
Jimmy Recinos
poet/podcaster
Hayk Makhmuryan
art worker and community organizer with doodleswithoutborders.com
Annie Buckley
Executive Director, Prison Arts Collective
Black Rose
founder of Zoom Black Magic Radio the world's first pirate radio station
Jhoanna Belfer
Bel Canto Books in Long Beach
Taylor Chapin
Murals of La Jolla
3sixo
hip-hop artist
Genevieve Anderson
filmmaker
Dale Maharidge
author of Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
Peppur Chambers
writer/producer/educator
Lynne Thompson
Los Angeles poet laureate
Max Presneill
Artist/Curator at Torrance Art Museum
Joshua Collins
singer/songwriter / street preacher and homeless advocate in Orange County
Jenny Kane
arts connection, san bernadino
Riston Diggs
rapper
Jason Luckett
singer/songwriter
Scarlett Brais
lead singer, Scarlett and the Fever
Robin Lee Riddell
pottery artist, gallery owner
Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
photographer
Samira Barragan
filmmaker
Anita Sugimura
Gizzy Bear Productions / director of Battlefield: Home
Iz Gutierrez
director of They Call Us Sediciosos
Gustavo Arellano
author/podcaster/LA Times columnist
Ra Avis
writer
Iris DeAnda
poet
Nadia Hunter Bey
poet
Andrew McLees
photographer / FrozenWaste.land.com
Stacey Fayant
traditional indigenous tattoo artist
Christina Ham
playwright (Nina Simone: Four Women)
Margaret Aichele
dA Gallery Director
Lee Herrick
Calfornia state poet laureate
Esteban Escobedo
rodeo trick roper
Ruth Nolan
Poet
Greg Bresnitz
host of food/music podcast
Carvell Holloway
jazz trumpeter / head of music education at Dominguez High School in Compton
Jim Daichendt
co-curator, Street Legacy: SoCal Style Masters
Anthony Parker
poet
Soraya Young-Pen
chalk artist
Luis Antonio Pichardo
DSTL Arts
Nikolai Garcia
poet
Joshua Woolen
poet/filmmaker
Thrasher
Author of Head Bangin' Radio
Marcus Omari
Poetic Reform Party
Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara
singer/writer/poet/star of Emmy-nominated film Con Safos
Peter J. Harris
writer
Amilia K. Spicer
singer/songwriter
Hiram Sims
Sims Library of Poetry
Alexis Rhone Fancher
poet
Tom Proctor
actor/musician
Morgan Miller
artist/printmaker
Megan Greenough
singer
Cathy Segal-Garcia
singer/producer
Jeff Hobbs
Author of Children of the State: Stories of Survial and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
Aaron Estrada
artist (3B crew)
Agente
hip hop artist
Fabian Debora
artist/executive director, Homeboy Art Academy
Cassandra Lane
author of We Are Bridges / Editor in Chief of LA Parent
Kim Estes
actor
Naibe Reynoso
author of How To Fold A Taco
Jenni Alpert aka Cami & her birth father Don
singer/songwriter
Julian Torres
mariachi singer
Neil Shigley
artist
Tawnee Lynn
French horn / Tawnee Lynn Music Services
Tongo Eisen-Martin
poet laureate of San Francisco
Denise Sandoval
organizer of low rider events
Crystal Salas
Poet
Andru Defeye
poet laureate of Sacramento
Lydia Theron Ware
poet, editor of Cartless
Madeliene Spencer
Boca de Oro Festival
Carla Silveira Hernandez
Musical artist
Vincent Cooper
poet
Lee Ballinger
author of Love and War: My First Thirty Years of Writing
Astrid
poet / author of Through the Soil in My Skin
Nyarae Francis
poet
Adam Manley
furniture designer
Jessica Kim
Poet
Tony Lepre
guitarist in Attack of the Rising
Scatterbrain
hip-hop artist
Katie Ruiz
artist
Anna Simone Scott
filmmaker / director of Take My Heart
Luis Rodriguez
poet/author
Joaquin Jimenez
hip-hop artist/studio and record label owner
Jonathan Celiz
musician
Juanita Mantz
writer, podcaster, public defender
Chris Pierce
singer/songwriter
Mayela Rodriguez
arts program manager, Blue Sky Center
Carla Vega
poet/singer/writer/actor
Rebecca Contreras
artist
Kevin Jones
singer
Lisbeth Coiman
poet
Tricia Lopez
Poet/Podcaster
Yago Cura
co-author of Library Stories
Janet Gonzalez
owner of Innovative Auto / poet
Kimberly Duran
painter
Michael Schilf
director of Tears of the Field
Jennalyn Alonzo
musician
Mark Pico
singer/songwriter
Abel Salas
Publisher of Brooklyn & Boyle / poet
Tori Eldridge
author of Dance Among the Flames
Armond Kinnard
poet/storyteller
Cindy Romero
painter/poet
Raul Pacheco
guitarist, Ozomotli
Sati Kaur
filmmaker
Alkaid Ramirez
photographer
Cati Porter
poet
Mike Liorti
musician/podcaster
Jonah Elijah
muralist
Madi Parsley
editor of Drifter
Steph Cha
author
Stephanie Serrano
poet / Director "Seeds of Peace"
Erin Yoshi
painter
Emile Poree
guitarist/singer
Tina Orduno Calderon
singer/poet
Ismael Pineda
percussionist
Katisse Buckingham
jazz saxophone/flute; soundtrack composer
Harvey Estrada
bassist / music professor at Compton College
Claire Hannah Collins
director of Hollywood's Finest
Ant Black
professor at San Bernadino Valley College / poet
Rusty
singer
Pedro Kos
director of Lead Me Home
Tama Brisbane
Stockton poet laureate
Bumdog Torres
street photographer
Thelma Reyes
author of Dearest Papa and When The Virus Came Calling
Mike Scully
musician/band leader
Hanna Kight Witham
Writer
James Tyner
Fresno's first poet laureate
Miri Hunter
Thought Theater
Kate Maruyama
author of Family Solstice
Diana L. Sanchez
artist
Molly Trochez
artist
Oscar Martinez
artist
Amos Adelone
musician
Alixen Pham
Poet
Carolina Rivera Escamilla
writer
Melina Paris
writer at Random Lengths / podcaster
Mary Scholz
singer/songwriter
Randal Fisher
jazz saxophonist
Rita Dunn
poet / artist / author
Janelle Brown
author of I'll Be You
Propaganda
poet
David A. Romero
poet
Janet Owen Driggs
Director/curator Cypress College Art Gallery
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)
