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.

Onstage

This weekend, The Breath Project streams 24 nationwide theater works in honor of George Floyd

October 23, 2020

"It’s another brick in the wall. Or rather, we’re taking the wall down, so it’s a brick out of the wall.”

Culture

Author of ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’ Wendy Liu says tech must change

October 20, 2020

"There’s this extreme power discrepancy that’s being magnified by Silicon Valley in ways that are not necessarily new, but they’ve improved upon the ways it already existed."

Art

With ‘Everglow,’ an artist explores redwood’s phosphorescence

October 6, 2020

Artist Victoria Wagner, a former pastry chef and wedding cake-maker , says she’s always been a sculptural thinker. But she didn’t work with wood...

Performance

‘It Can’t Happen Here’ returns, right before election

October 5, 2020

A collaborative radio drama from Berkeley Rep revives the Sinclair Lewis classic, which won raves four years ago

Culture

A delicious way to fight voter suppression

October 2, 2020

Dine for Democracy brings activists, food-lovers together to make voting easier and benefit BIPOC and youth orgs.

Art

Photographer Dorothea Lange’s archive now available online at OMCA

September 16, 2020

The collection presents the iconic Lange as the personable creator she was—and a local picturmaker to boot.

Art

Sirron Norris’ cartooning classes take to internet for COVID summer

September 11, 2020

No reason for kids to lay down their pencils in the pandemic, says the iconic Bay Area artist.

Movies

Raising the wage for tipped workers

September 8, 2020

'Waging Change' by Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg tracks the fight for better service industry pay, from 9/11 to #MeToo.

Culture

Preserving stories of California life during COVID—and you can share yours

August 14, 2020

Erin Garcia, director of exhibitions at the California Historical Society, and her colleagues were looking for ways to engage their audience digitally. What they...

Art

With colorful street art, 100 Days of Action represents essential workers

August 11, 2020

When artist Christo Oropeza was asked to create a painting for a storefront as part of Art for Essential Workers (a program by local artist collective 100...

Emily Wilson

This weekend, The Breath Project streams 24 nationwide theater works in honor of George Floyd

Author of ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’ Wendy Liu says tech must change

With ‘Everglow,’ an artist explores redwood’s phosphorescence

‘It Can’t Happen Here’ returns, right before election

A delicious way to fight voter suppression

Photographer Dorothea Lange’s archive now available online at OMCA

Sirron Norris’ cartooning classes take to internet for COVID summer

Raising the wage for tipped workers

Preserving stories of California life during COVID—and you can share yours

With colorful street art, 100 Days of Action represents essential workers

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