Julia Dixon Evans
Arts Reporter/Host, The FinestJulia Dixon Evans hosts KPBS’ arts and culture podcast, The Finest, writes the KPBS Arts newsletter, produces and edits the KPBS/Arts Calendar and works with the KPBS team to cover San Diego's diverse arts scene.
Previously, Julia wrote the weekly Culture Report for Voice of San Diego and has reported on arts, culture, books, music, television, dining, the outdoors and more for The A.V. Club, Literary Hub and San Diego CityBeat. She studied literature at UCSD (where she was an oboist in the La Jolla Symphony), and is a published novelist and short fiction writer. She is the founder of Last Exit, a local reading series and literary journal, and she won the 2019 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Julia lives with her family in North Park and loves trail running, vegan tacos and live music.
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A partnership between MCASD and the Westfield mall brings contemporary art to the public … and the outdoors. -
Find chamber music, fine contemporary art, a new cross-border mural project and "The Princess and the Frog" at the drive-in. -
Local artist asks "Who can be comfortable being served?" as her performance-based art takes on new meaning during the pandemic. -
Balboa Art Conservation Center's new program, Preserve Community Art, will kick off with a project gathering and preserving social justice art, enlisting the help of youth -
A livestreamed concert by Natula, a finger puppet workshop, a new online exhibition of figurine sculptures at Thumbprint and OMA's virtual California road trip -
Dewain Valentine's 1978 "Circle, Blue-Violet" is transformed — using science — into a work of original avant-garde jazz by local trumpeter Steph Richards
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KPBS would like to hear from you about your awareness and participation in cultural arts in the South Bay. -
Here is a list of some of KPBS' picks to ring in the Year of the Rabbit and Cat in San Diego County. -
A new outdoor exhibition of photography, ephemera, video and more explores the role of the Freedom Riders in their 1961 protests.
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