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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With event spaces and artists struggling, the Logan Heights art space is looking out for some of their own -
Trista Roland, founder of San Diego pattern company Sugardale, discusses fashion's post-pandemic future -
Virtual Art Alive will still feature interpretations of works of art by floral designers — using household objects — plus make-at-home cocktails. -
How to adapt when you cannot go digital? Poetry nonprofit still aims to teach and heal incarcerated women through 'restorative writing' -
Some San Diego artists are finding solace in making face masks in the hundreds as official personal protective gear recommendations change -
Michelle Montjoy is currently the featured regional artist at Lux Art Institute, but her touchable, immersive installation opened right as California enacted stay-at-home orders
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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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