For this year’s edition of the San Francisco festival, 16 Latina and Chinese women designed and hand-sewed flags that tell their story.
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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Audience Members Cut Iranian Artist’s Hair in Moving Performance
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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.”