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Art Is Awesome with Emily Wilson

Art Is Awesome with Emily Wilson

著者： Emily Wilson with Go-To Productions
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Journalist Emily Wilson talks to artists about their work and finds out what drives them to create. アート 社会科学
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  • Reimagining SFMOMA's Fisher Collection

    Reimagining SFMOMA's Fisher Collection
    2026/10/27

    Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Emily spends time with Gamynne Guillotte (Chief Education and Public Engagement Officer) and Ted Mann (Project Assistant Curator) about SFMOMA's dramatic reimagining of the Doris and Don Fisher Collection — 250 works by 35 artists reinstalled for the first time since 2016.

    They also reorganized the galleries by artist rather than nationality or style — placing German artists like Richter alongside American contemporaries like Warhol — and used the Fishers' deep holdings to create mini-retrospectives for artists like Sol LeWitt and Philip Guston. A standout pairing of Anselm Kiefer and William Kentridge on the sixth floor explores how both artists confront their countries' fraught histories through material process. The episode highlights a rare collaboration where education and interpretation were involved from the very start of the exhibition design.

    For more about the reimagined Fisher Collection - CLICK HERE

    Learn more about Gamynne Guillote - CLICK HERE

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    Tune in next Episode, when Emily features artist Justin Hoover of the Chinese Historical Society of America.

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    About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:

    Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women’s Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.

    Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWil

    Follow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast

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    CREDITS:

    Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson.

    Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    The Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions.

    For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com


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    17 分
  • Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. - Artistic Director, SF BATCO

    Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. - Artistic Director, SF BATCO
    2026/10/13

    Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Emily & AIA is glad to partner with The Svane Family Foundation's Culture Forward initiative — a $5 million grant program to support arts and culture projects in downtown San Francisco.

    In this episode of *Art is Awesome*, Emily chats with Rodney Earl Jackson Jr., a San Francisco native who grew up in the Fillmore neighborhood and went on to perform on Broadway. After years on Broadway, Rodney and his co-founder Marcelo Javier — a Latino actor who faced similar typecasting — returned to San Francisco to start SFBATCO, driven by a desire to "expand the canon" and create opportunities for artists of color beyond the narrow roles available to them. The episode highlights their current production, *Every Saturday Night*, playing at the Strand Theater on Market Street. The play is a celebration of Black joy and culture rather than trauma, exploring themes of homeownership, displacement, and honoring the past while reconciling with the present. The production marks SFBATCO's first downtown show and their first all-Black cast.

    About Artist Rodney Earl Jackson Jr:

    Rodney is the Artistic Director & Co-Founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre (SFBATCO). He made his Broadway debut in “The Book of Mormon” and was last seen at American Conservatory Theatre & Arena Stage in the co-produced production of “Toni Stone”. Prior to that he traveled North America in the first national tour of “Motown: The Musical.”

    A San Francisco native who built his love and foundation for art and theatre in public city organizations such as SFartsEd, San Francisco Recreation and Park’s Young People’s Teen Musical Theater Company, and the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ where he graduated from the theatre department. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

    Other theatre credits: Berkeley Repertory “Ain’t Too Proud: the life and times of the Temptations”, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company “I, Too, Sing America”.
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    Follow Rodney on Instagram: @RodneyEarlJacksonJr

    Visit SFBATCO's Website: SFBATCO.org

    For more about Every Saturday Night - CLICK HERE

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    About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:

    Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women’s Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.

    Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWil

    Follow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast

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    CREDITS:

    Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson.

    Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    The Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions.

    For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com


    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    16 分
  • Griff Williams - Painter/Publisher/Gallerist

    Griff Williams - Painter/Publisher/Gallerist
    2026/10/06
    Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with Griff Williams, Griff Williams, a Bay Area artist, curator, and the founder of Gallery 16, which operated in San Francisco for over 30 years. Griff discusses his upbringing in a political family (his father was a longtime Montana congressman) and why he chose art over politics, attending the San Francisco Art Institute and opening Gallery 16 in 1993 as a multi-disciplinary space for visual art, performance, and music. He reflects on the gallery's mission to champion artists over luxury sales, and describes the 2021 documentary *Tell Them We Were Here*, made with his son Keelan, which profiles eight Bay Area artists tackling social issues like environmentalism, racism, and prison reform through their practice.Griff also addresses the recent closures of the San Francisco Art Institute and California College of the Arts, calling them devastating losses for the region's creative economy and cultural identity. He argues that elected officials are largely indifferent to working artists—many of whom are "the working poor" juggling multiple jobs—while public funding tends to favor large institutions like symphonies and ballets over small galleries and nonprofits. Now living in Sonoma with more studio time, Griff continues to curate, including the exhibition *Rex Ray: We Are All Made of Light* at the Monterey Museum of Art, and remains a passionate advocate for the Bay Area's arts community.About Artist Griff Williams:Griff Williams is an American multidisciplinary artist, painter, filmmaker, publisher, and gallerist, based in San Francisco. Known for his layered, textural abstract paintings that explore perception, memory, and form through color, surface, and material, Williams has built a career spanning painting, curatorial work, and publishing.Williams is the eldest of three siblings, raised in Montana’s rugged landscapes by Pat Williams, Montana’s longest-serving U.S. Congressman, and Carol Williams, the first female majority leader in the Montana SenateHe earned a BFA from the University of Montana in 1984 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993.Williams’s paintings often use a reimagined “paint-by-number” approach with poured resin and stenciled enamel, producing graphic, optically complex surfaces reminiscent of vintage postcards grokipedia.com. His work engages with abstraction, place, and narrative, blending craftsmanship with conceptual inquiry. He has also directed the 2021 award-winning documentary Tell Them We Were Here, focusing on socially engaged Bay Area artists.In 1993, Williams founded Gallery 16 in San Francisco, later expanding into Urban Digital Color. For over three decades, the gallery became a hub for contemporary art, exhibiting works by artists such as Margaret Kilgallen, Paul Sietsema, and Michelle Grabner. Through Gallery 16 Editions, he published influential monographs, including The Gay Seventies: Hal Fischer (2019) and Rex Ray (2020).Williams has taught at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, and Mills College, and his work has been exhibited in venues such as the San Diego Museum of Art and San Jose Museum of Art. His writing and public speaking address arts policy and cultural issues in the Bay Area.His work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, and Artnews. He is recognized as a key figure in San Francisco’s contemporary art scene, combining artistic practice with advocacy for the arts and regional cultural historyVisit Griff's Website: GriffWilliams.comFollow Griff on Instagram: @WilliamsGriff Learn More about Gallery16 - CLICK HERELearn More about exihibit Rex Ray: We Are All Made of Light - CLICK HERE--About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women’s Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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