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.

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‘Hip-hop to Hamilton’ urges youth to pursue arts careers, despite COVID

April 22, 2020

Lily Ling, the music director and conductor for the tour of Hamilton, says we need the arts now more than ever. She saw that working...

Movies

‘Crip Camp’ captures a very vivid moment in disability rights struggle

April 16, 2020

In 1970 and 71, Jim LeBrecht attended Camp Jened for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York. The camp had a profound effect on his...

Lit

So, what do kids say about living in San Francisco?

April 12, 2020

Katie Burke grew up in a family of five children in Phoenix, Arizona. She felt, like she thinks many children do, that she was...

‘Change the dynamics’: Dawoud Bey on photography, place, and history

April 7, 2020

On February 15, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened An American Project, a retrospective, of the work of multi-award-winning photographer and teacher...

Onstage

In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

March 11, 2020

When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away. “First...

Culture

How do you represent Black and Latino communities at major museum shows?

March 8, 2020

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco started its Community Representatives program back in 1992 when it hosted an exhibit of the work of...

Creativity Explored branches out with ‘Of here from there’ exhibition

March 4, 2020

The first time artist Ana Teresa Fernández entered the Creativity Explored studio, she says she fell in love with the space. “It’s like what...

Art

Electrifying art of Black Power in ‘Soul of a Nation’

February 18, 2020

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983 was organized by London’s Tate Museum and traveled to Arkansas, New York,...

Onstage

Springsteen meets surveillance state in ‘Born in East Berlin’

February 10, 2020

Rogelio Martinez likes a little chaos when he works. So one day he had his toddler daughter, Charlotte, on his lap watching videos while...

Onstage

You’ve never seen a ‘Gatsby’ like this

February 5, 2020

When his theater company starts working on a show, says John Collins of Elevator Repair Service, members don’t necessarily know–or want to know–where they’re going...

Emily Wilson

‘Hip-hop to Hamilton’ urges youth to pursue arts careers, despite COVID

‘Crip Camp’ captures a very vivid moment in disability rights struggle

So, what do kids say about living in San Francisco?

‘Change the dynamics’: Dawoud Bey on photography, place, and history

In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

How do you represent Black and Latino communities at major museum shows?

Creativity Explored branches out with ‘Of here from there’ exhibition

Electrifying art of Black Power in ‘Soul of a Nation’

Springsteen meets surveillance state in ‘Born in East Berlin’

You’ve never seen a ‘Gatsby’ like this

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