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