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