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