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 rollercoaster week of reopening and reclosing may shape future attempts for local museums like MOPA and the Nat. SDMA missed their planned reopening window, while other smaller art spaces like Good Faith Gallery are staying closed for now. -
"I Pledge Allegiance," is a new poem by San Diego poet and artist Gill Sotu, released for the Fourth of July holiday through a partnership with the Central San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce. -
San Diego State University art department faculty, alumni and students will sell works of art to support Build A Miracle, a nonprofit that works in Tijuana's El Florido neighborhood. -
KPBS Midday EditionWe're listening to new music from Jake Najor and the Moment of Truth, Jean Jules Julian, Rafter, Gaby Moreno and Mexican Institute of Sound, and Alfred Howard, Mara Kaye and Tim McNalley. -
Reimagining justice, borders and detention in the region through visual art. -
PGK Dance Project's 'While We Were Home' is both a time capsule and study in site-specific performance.
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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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