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Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson is a radio and print reporter in San Francisco. She has written stories for dozens of media outlets including NPR, Latino USA, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, California Teacher, Oakland Magazine, the Daily Beast, and Truthdig. She also teaches adults working towards high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.

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Immigrant Women Shine at SF’s Chinese New Year Parade

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson 2 days agoFebruary 7, 2023

For this year’s edition of the San Francisco festival, 16 Latina and Chinese women designed and hand-sewed flags that tell their story.

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Audience Members Cut Iranian Artist’s Hair in Moving Performance

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson January 31, 2023February 1, 2023

At San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Mobina Nouri took scissors to her own strands and invited others to do the same.

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Mildred Howard’s Art of Giving

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

She has raised generations of Bay Area artists and changed the local landscape with her public artworks, colleagues tell Hyperallergic.

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For Julie Buffalohead, Animals Express What Words Cannot

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson December 18, 2022December 19, 2022

There’s something very funny — and unsettling — about Buffalohead’s paintings of animals engaged in human situations.

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The Typography of Change 

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson December 5, 2022December 15, 2022

An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present.

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Two Artists’ Quest to Free Their Ancestors

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson November 20, 2022November 21, 2022

Artists Heesoo Kwon and Trina Michelle Robinson make worlds in which their distant relatives can fill the fractures of memory.

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Touring San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum in Sign Language

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson October 4, 2022October 5, 2022

The museum enlisted the help of Linda Bove, the first Deaf actor to be part of Sesame Street’s recurring cast, to help bring artworks from the collection to a Deaf audience.

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Rumors About Death of the Bay Area Art Scene Are Greatly Exaggerated

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson September 19, 2022September 20, 2022

Local artists and curators took issue with a New York Times report announcing the demise of the local art scene in light of the departure of two blue-chip galleries.

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Art Gallerist and Patron Virginia Dwan Dies at 90

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson September 14, 2022September 15, 2022

Dwan helped pave the way when women-owned galleries were not so easy to find, or run.

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San Francisco Museums Acquire Works by 30 Bay Area Artists

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

Wesaam Al-Badry, Rupy C. Tut, and Chelsea Ryoko Wong are among the artists whose work will be part of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor thanks to a $1M grant.

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Claes Oldenburg, Whose Sculptures Transformed the Everyday, Dies at 93

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

Oldenburg seduced viewers with his iconic, foam-filled “soft sculptures” and massive public artworks that made mundane objects suddenly magical.

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Lynn Hershman Leeson Thinks It’s Time That Her Work Is Recognized

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson April 11, 2022April 11, 2022

“For years, I couldn’t show my work, I couldn’t get a gallery, and people in New York wouldn’t pay attention to me,” she says. “So I think I deserve it — just for not giving up if nothing else.”

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