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.

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...

Arts + Culture

A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave

July 30, 2020

Artist Vida Kuang grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The anti-Asian racism that ramped up at the beginning of the year followed by the...

Onstage

In ‘The Niceties,’ deep-rooted academic bias vividly on display

July 14, 2020

In The Niceties, playing online from Shotgun Theater, a Black student, Zoe (Regina Monique) at an unnamed elite Northeast university (clearly Yale given it’s...

Art

A display of belonging and hope in Chinatown (and on Instagram)

July 6, 2020

For the last few years, the Chinese Culture Center (CCC), has been working to democratize how art is experienced, says curator Hoi Leung. The...

Emily Wilson

‘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

A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave

In ‘The Niceties,’ deep-rooted academic bias vividly on display

A display of belonging and hope in Chinatown (and on Instagram)

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