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