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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This weekend in the arts: "C You Saturday" at ICA San Diego North; San Diego Latino Film Festival's closing weekend; "The XIX (The Nineteenth)" at The Old Globe; the de la Torre Brothers at ICA San Diego Central; "Becoming, Always" from San Diego Dance Theater; La Jolla Symphony and Chorus' "'Music of the Spheres'; and an extended run for "The Outsiders." -
The first career retrospective of longstanding El Paso artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. Also opening this week is the first solo museum exhibition of San Diego-Tijuana artist Griselda Rosas. Both exhibits showcase Latina artists from two generations and two different places along the US-Mexico border. -
The first solo museum exhibition for San Diego-Tijuana artist Griselda Rosas opens this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in La Jolla, along with a career retrospective of longstanding El Paso artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz. Both exhibits showcase two Latina artists, from two generations and two different places along the US-Mexico border. -
Architectural visual art, Vivaldi ballets, hip-hop informed poetry, experimental pop, Bonita portraiture and more — get the details in our weekend arts roundup. -
Mandeville Art Gallery reopens on March 4 with "Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era," featuring UC San Diego faculty. The institution's first dedicated gallery director, Ceci Moss, curated the gallery. -
This weekend in the arts: Adrian Huth at BFree Studio; Hausmann Quartet performs Tomeka Reid; Kelsey Brookes at Quint Gallery; San Diego Symphony performs Stravinsky and Beethoven; Markus Bacher and Claire Chambless at Oolong Gallery; French songs at Bread & Salt and more.
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KPBS Midday EditionOur guest for Midday Edition's weekend arts preview segment this week is Andrea "Angie" Chandler, with recommendations for visual art, theater and a photography zine signing event.
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