POVA IN THE NEWS: Inside Edition - Homeless Leather Maker Works in Free Studio, Finds Art Supplies on the Streets

By: Johanna Li

This Tennessee man may not have money for rent or socks, but all he needed was a little magic to become an artist.

Ean Greer, a leather-maker in Nashville, said he has always found the material he works with.

"I was walking through a parking lot and there was this weird hippy girl in a van,” Greer told WTVF. “She gave me a garbage bag full of leather and I always find it magically.”

Another time, Greer said he found a bag of leather at a bus stop.

Greer has been homeless for the last seven years and lives on a mattress in a ditch, enclosed by a makeshift roof of tarp.

“It’s weathered all the storms. It’s getting hot out and that’s what sucks," he said. “[My parents] probably worry about me."

His art, though, he practices at a nonprofit called Poverty and the Arts, a professional studio he doesn’t have to pay rent to use.