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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Five notable works of art on view in the region in February: Melissa Walter at Cannon Gallery, Duke Windsor at Oceanside Museum of Art, Andrés Hernández at The Hill Street Country Club, Marie Watt at University of San Diego and Tatiana-Ortiz Rubio at City College Gallery. -
This weekend in the arts: solo piano works by visionary women composers; the San Diego Symphony performs Rachmaninoff, Berlioz and Still; a Hill Street Country Club virtual art and poetry conversation, photojournalism at OMA and Sundance Satellite. -
Elizabeth Yang-Hellewell brings a rich and diverse art and teaching background to the downtown museum — along with significant development chops. On life for children and families right now in the pandemic: "This is a crisis moment." -
This weekend in the arts: Sasha Koozel Reibstein at Quint, Junior Theatre and Animal Cracker Conspiracy's spin on Ezra Jack Keats, "Herd Immunity" at SIP Gallery, the San Diego International Film Festival's virtual shorts program and Shane Hall's Casbah residency. -
This weekend in the arts: Bookish sound art at the Athenaeum, fiber art at CCAE, Roman de Salvo at Quint ONE, blues at Panama 66, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Michelangelo and Van Gogh get immersive. -
A new exhibition at Art Produce — viewable from the sidewalk — features Doug McMinimy's photography of choreographer Khamla Somphanh's powerful work.
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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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