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