Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson lives in San Francisco. She has written for different outlets, including Smithsonian.com, The Daily Beast, Hyperallergic, Women’s Media Center, The Observer, Alta Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, California Magazine, UC Santa Cruz Magazine, and SF Weekly. For many years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco. She hosts the short biweekly podcast Art Is Awesome.

Art

Welcome home: Striking neighborhood murals come to SFO airport

June 25, 2021

Artist Emily Fromm contributes four new pieces to the Harvey Milk Terminal, showcasing local flavor

Art

Artists partner with Asian elders to produce gorgeous, personal posters

June 22, 2021

The Great AAPI Elder Print Off aims to reflect the complex feelings and stories of seniors in a time of rising hate.

Art

Pregnancy shaped artist Kimia Ferdowsi Kline’s new show “Mother Tongue”

June 17, 2021

On how her body's own shifting capabilities—and complex relationship with maternal messaging—colored the Marrow Gallery exhibition.

Arts + Culture

Porchlight, Bawdy Storytelling take stage at newly Mint-ed al fresco series

June 14, 2021

Courtyard Cabaret was the result of COVID downtime—but an outdoor drink and show sounds smashing for summer.

Art

A new gallery uplifts contemporary Asian art to counter misconceptions

June 7, 2021

Curator Abby Chen on how the Asian Art Museum's Hambrecht Contemporary Gallery connects antiquities to urgent current concerns.

Lit

Through hardship, a pastor encounters good people in ‘United States of Grace’

June 2, 2021

Lenny Duncan's 'Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope" isn't the usual redemption story.

Onstage

SF Opera returns—with a lakeside, drive-in production of ‘Barber of Seville’

April 22, 2021

Director Matthew Ozawa reflects on his art form's new normal: “Sometimes it gets cold at night, and there’s a lovely duck that loves to say hello.”

Performance

Global artists tackle an epic year in ‘Hindsight 2020’

April 6, 2021

A 'devised multimedia time capsule' addresses what we'll take with us from all of this.

Art

In SFMOMA mural, Liz Hernández conjures a spell for future healing

April 2, 2021

Milagros, garlic, and losing an uncle early on to COVID inspired Mexican artist to fill a wall with hope.

Food & Drink

Tasty tales pile high at StorySlam’s Recipes for Resilience

March 21, 2021

A farmer of color, an ethnobotanist, a mutual aid organizer, a volunteer firefighter, more share their stories for virtual fundraiser