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

Fashioning a new ‘Wuthering Heights,’ from hand-me-downs and reclaimed fabrics

December 7, 2022

Costumer Vicki Mortimer talks about the importance of sustainable and vintage outfits in adaptation at Berkeley Rep

Music

Seeing ‘La Traviata’ anew, through the lens of a feminist reckoning

November 14, 2022

Shawna Lucey's production at SF Opera focuses on courtesan Violetta's agency to control her own life and decisions.

Lit

Building an architect: Novelist imagines the Bay Area youth of Julia Morgan

November 8, 2022

In 'Drawing Outside the Lines,' Susan J. Austin sketches a foundation for the mind behind Hearst Castle.

Onstage

“I’ll make it even wilder”: Bill Irwin takes ‘On Beckett’

October 16, 2022

The accomplished physical comedian brings his ever-changing relationship with the Irish playwright's work to the A.C.T.

Art

Feminist faith founders, community archivists: APAture highlights remarkable creators

October 4, 2022

Asian Pacific American arts organization Kearny Street Workshop celebrates 50 years with festival themed 'autonomy'

Art

‘What might the world look like?’: Displaying the breadth of Faith Ringgold’s art and life

October 3, 2022

Curator Janna Keegan speaks about the 91-year-old artist-activist's breathtaking retrospective at the de Young.

Art

Scream something: BAMPFA projects women’s rage in ‘Outcry’

September 29, 2022

Photographer Whitney Bradshaw's series captures a range of bellows against the patriarchy.

Onstage

‘Lear’ comes to the Fillmore: A Bay take on Shakespeare’s great tragedy

September 19, 2022

Cal Shakes' new production centers Blackness, and features live accompaniment by jazz favorite Marcus Shelby.

Art

Beyond the garden’s borders: A walk-through with installation artist Cathy Lu

August 11, 2022

Resilience and grief, in ceramic.

Art

All aboard the TNT Traysikel for some karaoke, Filipino street-style

August 5, 2022

One of the city's favorite mobile interactive sculptures is at the Asian Art Museum—and you can sing along.

Emily Wilson

Fashioning a new ‘Wuthering Heights,’ from hand-me-downs and reclaimed fabrics

Seeing ‘La Traviata’ anew, through the lens of a feminist reckoning

Building an architect: Novelist imagines the Bay Area youth of Julia Morgan

“I’ll make it even wilder”: Bill Irwin takes ‘On Beckett’

Feminist faith founders, community archivists: APAture highlights remarkable creators

‘What might the world look like?’: Displaying the breadth of Faith Ringgold’s art and life

Scream something: BAMPFA projects women’s rage in ‘Outcry’

‘Lear’ comes to the Fillmore: A Bay take on Shakespeare’s great tragedy

Beyond the garden’s borders: A walk-through with installation artist Cathy Lu

All aboard the TNT Traysikel for some karaoke, Filipino street-style

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