What do I need?

$2,000 for medical bills after shattered big toe and broken foot bones

$300 to get 70+ art pieces + the last of my belongings from East Texas

$300 for 1 year of web hosting

$2,400 Two months living and making my art easier for people to purchase online

If you can't afford to contribute it would be hugely appreciated if you could sign and share my petition in hopes San Antonio will respect freedom of expression and stop ticketing and arresting me for sidewalk chalk: https://www.change.org/p/freedom-of-expression-matters-end-arrests-for-sidewalk-chalk-in-san-antonio

I have spoke about this at San Antonio's City Hall Public Comment Session 21 times and e-mailed the mayor multiple times. News has covered the story, the coverage has lead to more unlawful harassment. Currently the city claims sidewalk chalk has been as illegal as aerosol graffiti for the past 18 years due to the word chalk being mentioned in the definition of a graffiti stick. Police Chief Bill McManus and city council under both Ron Nirenberg and Gina Ortiz Jones.

Despite this claim I have created over 200 public art pieces that all took between two and twenty two hours to create. I have mapped them out providing pictures at:

https://tinyurl.com/lakeyartmap

I have been accused of using sidewalk chalk in HOPES of having the police harass me for social media content. Meanwhile I have been a public artist since 2012. Police all over the country have tried to intimidate freedom of expression of artists for as far back as anyone can remember. It wasn't until 2019 I started standing up for myself to the point they arrested me. In 2023 I got brave enough to start pulling out my camera when they harass me. Since then I have been arrested twice and ticketed 6 additional times. Charges dropped every single time. The map includes dates and locations for these issues. I even went in and added the council districts and county precincts. Nowadays I write that information by each art piece to help myself and community become more aware of who our elected officials are.

I come from trailer parks and a broken family, to years in foster care and unofficial boys homes, to traveling street artist and poet, to chalk artist and activist. Initially San Antonio Law Enforcement didn't harass me, they just washed away the chalk, like they did to the one year anniversary memorial to those lost in the tragedy in Uvalde: https://youtu.be/ARj1PdaGhBo

The City didn't claim chalk was illegal until after the behavior of the cop at the 44 second mark: https://youtu.be/9YCFospTcvU The 2:25 mark is where they claim chalk is illegal. Since then I've been given multiple graffiti tickets and possession of graffiti instruments for having chalk in a public park.

But at the same time...cops sidewalk chalk with children at school, chalk can be purchased on the toy aisle. San Antonio has had a massive downtown sidewalk chalk festival called Chalk It Up 20 years straight: https://youtu.be/ey6n_5emBO8

Maybe if this Go Fund Me raises enough funds I can afford a civil rights attorney to help me find justice on this issue.