Art Is Awesome with Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson, Charlene Goto

charlene@go-toproductions.com

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Booking Overview

Art Is Awesome is a Bay Area–connected arts show where journalist Emily Wilson profiles artists and art workers and explores what drives their creative practice. It’s a strong platform for PR moments involving exhibitions, residencies, and artist-centered DEIA/inclusion themes, with guests ranging from working multidisciplinary artists to museum interpretation leaders.

Metrics

Episodes: 83

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 1.1k followers

Contact Information

charlene@go-toproductions.com

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Host

Emily Wilson - Writer in San Francisco whose work appears in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women’s Media Center. She often writes about...

Charlene Goto - Co-producer, developer, and editor of the podcast (credited as @GoToProductions), but not presented as an on-air host.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Working artists and art workers (multidisciplinary artists, educators, museum interpretation/education leaders) with a Bay Area connection; demonstrated arts practice and/or institutional role (e.g., residencies, fellowships, exhibitions, collections representation, museum interpretation leadership).
Required Achievements:  
Residencies/fellowships, Solo or group exhibitions, Work held in museum/major collections, Museum/education leadership roles, Awards or recognitions, Documented teaching/education initiatives

Recent Guest Discussions

Paola de la Calle - Themes Of Immigration, Land Sovereignty, Family Memory, Diaspora Identity; Textiles/printmaking/sculpture; Using Family Photographs And Found Images; Poetic Texts And Found Objects.

Julia Goodman - Papermaking As Meditative/cathartic Labor; Grief; An Audio Archive Project About Astronomy And Motherhood; Her Path To Art And Teaching At Cca.

Abram Jackson - Making Museum Exhibitions More Inclusive And Equitable; Inclusive Language For Audio Tours; Reading Exhibition Labels Through An Equity Lens; Lowrider Culture Celebration And Rose B. Simpson’s Lexicon (as Context Within The Episode).

Recent Topics

Contemporary Art, Museum, Visual Arts, Arts Education, Craft

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Art Is Awesome with Emily Wilson
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Jonathon Keats - Conceptual Artist & Experimental Philosopher

July 28, 2026

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 Jonathon Keats — conceptual artist, experimental philosopher, and writer based in San Francisco. He has sold his thoughts, copyrighted his brain, choreographed a ballet for honeybees, and written six books. He contributes to Art in America, Popular Science, and Wired, and has exhibited at LACMA and Modernism Gallery SF. Jonathon discusses Cen...

Miguel Arzabe - Painter & Video Artist

July 14, 2026

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 Miguel Arzabe, a engineer turned artist based in Oakland, Ca... About Artist Miguel Arzabe: Miguel Arzabe makes colorful and dynamic abstractions - weavings, paintings, videos. He starts by finding outdated beauty in paper ephemera from art shows, modernist paintings, discarded audio recordings. They are methodically analyzed, deconstructed, ...

Paola de la Calle - Multimedia Artist

June 30, 2026

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.  This week, Emily welcomes Paola de la Calle, a Colombian American multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. Her work spans textiles, ceramics, printmaking, and writing, and often explores themes of immigration, land sovereignty, family memory, and diaspora identity. About Artist Paola de la Calle: Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary ar...

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