Closing Reception A Home For the Homeless: Artists and Poets in Search of An Answer

Artists and Poets in Search of an Answer is a provocative response to the homeless crisis with art, photography, poetry, critiques and perhaps an answer or two. Featuring photography by Joe Ramos and Cammie Toloui, installations by the UNDERCOVER collective with video by Sietske Tjallingii, art by Kate Akimbo, painting by Annice Jacoby, graphics from WRAP archive including work by Patrick Piazza, Art Hazelwood, Veronica Solis, Ronnie Goodman, and poems by Jack Hirschman, Alejandro Murguía, Alessandra Bava, Tony Robles, Norman Zelaya, Cesar Love, Virginia Barrett, Michael Koch, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and others.

Closing Reception on Friday August 26th, 2016 from 6-9pm

Featuring LIVE PRINTING with master graphic community artists including Patrick Piazza, Txutuo Perez, Art Hazelwood & more. Original prints available from the show’s artists. See FREE POSTERS made on the spot or try printing one yourself.

The gathering will also include SOAPBOX, a participatory performance event for advocates, heartbreakers, change makers, everyone with a fresh idea. Come have your five minutes on the SOAPBOX along with local celebs & creative provocateurs. Let’s use imagination and celebration, mingle dignity and rage with constructive here-and-now good ideas that break the impasse around chronic homelessness in our beautiful city. Let us banish the shame and the blame and build off the good work and sacrifice of decades of artist activism, community outcry and valuable lives grossly crushed. The best ideas will be captured and shared.