“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.”
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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Hong Kong Painter Wesley Tongson and the Lineage of Chinese Landscape Art
At BAMPFA, Tongson’s paintings hang alongside works from the museum’s collection of traditional Chinese ink paintings.
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The Photos Left Behind From the Chinese Exclusion Era
At the California Historical Society, curator Erin Garcia contrasts how Chinese people were portrayed in the press with the dignified studio portraits taken in Chinatown.
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For Artists Living by the Pacific, Climate Change Is Always on Their Minds
A former restaurant and ballroom on the edge of the Pacific is filled with art responding to the climate crisis.
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After 70 Years, UC Berkeley Museum Returns Massacre Remains to Wiyot Tribe
“They’ve been locked up in boxes and cabinets without having anyone to talk to and sing to them,” shares the tribal historical preservation officer of the Wiyot Tribe.
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The Emotional Pull of Nature Photos
From a sea lion in Monterey swimming by an N-95 mask to a polar bear in Norway, snuggling down on a small iceberg for the night.
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A Tender Mural Graces San Francisco’s Tenderloin District
Erlin Geffrard’s bright mural celebrates his parents and the struggle of working-class people.
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Accessibility Takes Center Stage in a Fashion Show
Mode Brut at the Museum of Craft and Design wants to change people’s perceptions of what fashion can be.
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The San Francisco Opera and San Quentin Prison Team Up to Showcase Incarcerated Artists
An exhibition at the San Francisco Opera House pairs the work of incarcerated artists with Beethoven’s story of unjust imprisonment.
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A Final Show Honors the Legacy of a Bay Area Art Legend
Hung Liu, an artist who “defied the stereotype that’s thrust on Asian women.”
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How Berkeley’s Countercultural Movement Shaped Artist David Huffman
Afro Hippie examines Huffman’s time at Berkeley and how it continues to influence him today.
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A San Francisco Muralist Painting “Latino Culture In All Its Beauty”
Josué Rojas came from El Salvador as a toddler, and his family settled in the Mission.