Art recommended:
Monique Fagan Smith
Monique Fagan Smith, homeless New York based visual artist. I heard about her on the Bryant Park Project and recommend you the blog entry there: Post Office Steps: One Artist’s Studio about her: http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2008/06/post_office_steps_one_artists.html#more
Two other links for Fagan Smith are also:
Monique Fagan Smith at Art Pathways: http://artpathways.info/#/moniquefagansmith/4522236905
and
on ConnecTV – On Her Own Terms: Painting a portrait of a homeless artist in New York: http://connectv.org/streaming_media/on_own_terms.html