Current Exhibition
The art of HOMELessness
a HERstorical journey thru the visual and performance art of poor/houseless, indigenous peoples-led movement toward self-determination and land liberation.
In 1996, a houseless, indigenous mother and daughter began poetry and art workshops in homeless shelters, jail cells, street corners and lobbies of General Assistance offices in San Francisco and Oakland. Their movement grew, and has since built a homeless people’s solution to homelessness (housing 24 formerly houseless youth, adults and elders in rent-free forever homes), published numerous books, and released a feature length movie on the violence of sweeping houseless people like we are trash–to name just a few accomplishments. The scrappy but powerful multi-generational, multi-cultural poor, houseless, disabled movement members known as POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE, PoorNewsNetwork and Homefulness have produced a great body of cultural, performance, visual and literary art over the last 29 years.
On July 19 at 3pm, at the invitation of Swim Gallery in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, they invite the world into a HERstorical walk through this art which has served as a powerful resistance to the silencing, criminalizing and invisiblizing of houseless and poor people’s voices and solutions.
The opening, in addition to beautiful works of visual art created over the last 29 years of revolutionary street-based work, will include a theatre performance presented by POOR Magazine’s Teatre de los Pobres, Indigenous prayer, Poetry from the Po Poets Project, food and more and will be dedicated to all of the ancestors of homelessness across so-called California.
The Art of HOMELessness installation will be up through July and will include street writing workshops for houseless youth and elders.
From 1996 when a houseless, indigenous mother and daughter began poetry and art workshops in homeless shelters, jail cells, street corners and lobbies of General Assistance offices in San Francisco and Oakland to the present day building of a homeless people’s solution to homelessness that houses 24 houseless youth, adults and elders in rent-free forever housing, publishing books and releasing a feature length movie on the violence of sweeping houseless people like we are trash (to name just a few of their accomplishments), the scrappy, but powerful multi-generational, multi-cultural poor, houseless, disabled movement members known as POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE, PoorNewsNetwork and Homefulness have produced a great body of cultural, performance, visual and literary art for the last 29 years.