Emily Wilson

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Emily Wilson

There aren’t too many gallery shows that ask their artists how they wish to be supported. Happily, the creatives featured in Reunited at the California College of the Arts Gallery (runs through May 17) in collaboration with the San Francisco Advocacy for National Museum of Women in the Arts have been presented with that very request.

1 week ago | alumni.berkeley.edu | Emily Wilson

You left Cuba when you were seven. Did that have a big influence on your life and your art? I’m going to give you two contradictory answers. On the one hand, of course. It was a sense of dislocation, and we went through, as many immigrants do, a lot of challenges in Spain and then Puerto Rico, and school fights and all that. In some ways, you always feel like an outsider as an exile. It gives you that position of being an outsider looking in at things. So yes, it changed me and affected me.

2 weeks ago | nobhillgazette.com | Emily Wilson

On a recent morning, patrons Diane Zelaya and Hal Williams came from Oakland to the Legion of Honor to see the exhibition of beloved California painter Wayne Thiebaud, Art Comes from Art. It’s something they do regularly — visiting both this museum on the edge of the City, as well as the de Young in Golden Gate Park, which make up the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Cultural institutions make a huge difference, Zelaya says. “It brings in the community, shows you history, shows you diversity.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Emily Wilson

For some, works from the rising artist Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa are reminiscent of those by renowned predecessors like Francisco Goya. This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. James G. Leventhal, the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, San José, first saw Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa's charcoal drawings when he visited the pt.2 Gallery in Oakland about three years ago.

3 weeks ago | 48hills.org | Emily Wilson

The Last of the Love Letters by Ngozi Anyanwu, produced by Crowded Fire Theater Company and playing Z Below Thu/24-May 3, got its start as a monologue for the beloved actor Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, Gladiator II, and recently Freaky Tales, a movie set in Oakland). During the pandemic, Anyanwu participated in 24 Hour Plays, where playwrights got a prompt from an actor. The actor had a prop in their home and told the writer something they’d never played before.