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Along with teaching art full time at Redwood City’s Cañada College, Emilio Villalba is a painter who is currently getting ready for a May exhibition at the Dolby Chadwick Gallery, not to mention director of the school’s gallery. Suffice to say, he doesn’t have a lot of extra time on his hands.

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Playwright Itamar Moses(Tony Award winner for The Band’s Visit and Drama Desk winner for Dead Outlaw) and musician Gaby Alter grew up near one another in Berkeley, and their parents were friends. But when they were kids, their three-year age gap—Alter is older—made a big difference and they didn’t hang out much. Moses says Alter was a wonderful musician, making up comic songs about Jewish holidays and writing rock operas, and he always wanted to be part of Alter’s creative output.

1 month ago | 48hills.org | Emily Wilson |Emily Wilson lives |SF Weekly

Margot Norton, chief curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, says every time she creates an exhibition, she thinks about what young artists can take away from it.