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.

Dance

With joy and uplift, COLORFORMS leaps from screen to stage at SF Ballet

March 13, 2023

COVID forced choreographer Myles Thatcher to film his new dance at arts institutions; now it debuts live

Art

Glitter-strewn resistance: Amalia Mesa-Bains talks beauty

March 9, 2023

Groundbreaking Chicana artist traces path of her Berkeley retrospective.

Art

In ‘Sobremesa,’ a chain of artists serves up china dumplings, doughy ducks, plum branches

March 6, 2023

Catharine Clark Gallery's tag-team show gives artists prompts to set their own table—with real food accompaniment.

Art

Illuminating an Indigenous future through Mayan cosmology and ancestral weaving

March 5, 2023

With 'The Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim' at Root Division, curators Katherin Canton and Mariana Moscoso follow the Saq’be’.

Onstage

Erin Merritt stirs domestic terrorism, violent rhetoric—and humor!—into ‘Tea Party’

February 28, 2023

The director, weathering ALS, fulfills a decade-long dream to stage Gordon Dahlquist's scabrous satire.

Onstage

Sound! Lights! Survival! It’s ‘Cambodian Rock Band’

February 22, 2023

Lauren Yee's play at Berkeley Rep uses Dengue Fever's music to tell a story of terror, resilience, and justice.

Onstage

‘We’re telling our fathers’ stories’: Luis Alfaro’s ‘The Travelers’ comes to Magic Theatre

February 14, 2023

Director Catherine Castellanos on new Campo Santo play, which revolves around a Central Valley seminary

Culture

From ranchos to Disneyland: Four centuries of California cartography

February 4, 2023

California Historical Society displays remarkable maps that trace colonization, ecological impact, tourism

Art

‘What is the portal for them?’ Group show at Minnesota Street Project opens doors

December 20, 2022

"as you summon other worlds" exhibition evokes artistic connection in more ways than one.

Art

Family, posted: Photographer Michael Jang made the streets his gallery

December 18, 2022

The images head indoors for Lee Gallery's 'Post No Jangs.'

Emily Wilson

With joy and uplift, COLORFORMS leaps from screen to stage at SF Ballet

Glitter-strewn resistance: Amalia Mesa-Bains talks beauty

In ‘Sobremesa,’ a chain of artists serves up china dumplings, doughy ducks, plum branches

Illuminating an Indigenous future through Mayan cosmology and ancestral weaving

Erin Merritt stirs domestic terrorism, violent rhetoric—and humor!—into ‘Tea Party’

Sound! Lights! Survival! It’s ‘Cambodian Rock Band’

‘We’re telling our fathers’ stories’: Luis Alfaro’s ‘The Travelers’ comes to Magic Theatre

From ranchos to Disneyland: Four centuries of California cartography

‘What is the portal for them?’ Group show at Minnesota Street Project opens doors

Family, posted: Photographer Michael Jang made the streets his gallery

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