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