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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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Arts Entrepreneur Is Evicting Longtime Residents to Create Artist Housing in San Francisco

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson May 14, 2019May 14, 2019

Carlie Wilmans, founder of the arts nonprofit 500 Capp Street Foundation, has come under fire after starting proceedings to evict a family from a duplex she owns in the Mission District.

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Translating the Legacy of Ahmad Shamlou, One of Iran’s Greatest Poets

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson May 8, 2019May 14, 2019

Niloufar Talebi, who knew Shamlou since she was a child, has written a memoir and opera on the poet and how he affected her life.

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The Black Power Movement Gets a Permanent Display at the Oakland Museum

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson May 1, 2019May 2, 2019

The museum has opened a permanent exhibition about Black activism in the Bay Area, which, contrary to public perception, was not always an accepting, progressive place.

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Formerly Incarcerated Japanese Americans Organize a Protest Against Family Separation at the Border

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson March 27, 2019March 29, 2019

Satsuki Ina, who contributed familial artifacts to an exhibition on the detention of Japanese Americans, is also organizing a memorial and protest with 60 former incarcerees.

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How the Re-Opening of the Public Domain “Has Allowed Us to Have Our Culture Back”

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson January 28, 2019January 31, 2019

In 2019, thousands of artworks from 1923 entered the public domain. Speakers from Creative Commons, the Internet Archive, and other places share why this matters.

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A Choreographer Bills His Dances as “Services”

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson January 23, 2019February 1, 2019

Adam Linder stresses the labor of dance whenever he offers up his “choreographic services” to museums.

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Photos Reveal How San Francisco and LA Dramatically Grew After 1850

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson January 11, 2019January 11, 2019

An exhibition documents how California and photography grew up together, and how photos influenced the rest of the country’s perception of the state’s two leading cities.

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Artist Installs Bells Throughout Oakland that Detect Air Pollution

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson November 30, 2018December 5, 2018

Rosten Woo hopes the bells will help create political pressure about air quality in West Oakland, which is circled by freeways and diesel trucks.

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A Feminist Workshop on How to Paint Anatomy and Nudes

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson November 15, 2018November 15, 2018

The class, part of The Feminist School of Painting at KADIST, challenged traditional ideals of beauty.

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A Museum Architect Sees Himself as a Matchmaker Between Artists and Art Lovers

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson October 16, 2018October 15, 2018

Kulapat Yantrasast, who is designing the expansion for San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, prefers his museum designs to “take a backseat” to the art and visitors.

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My Session with an Artist Who Helped Me Confront Death

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson August 22, 2018August 21, 2018

Lindsay Tunkl’s performance series, Parting Practice: Rituals for Endings and Failure, invites participants to practice parting from ambitions, hopes, possessions, friends, family, and your life.

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Photographer Susan Meiselas on the Relationships She’s Built with Her Subjects

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 30, 2018

Meiselas, whose documentary photography is wide ranging, says the one thing that ties her work together is her “relationships with subjects over time.”

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