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Emily K. Holmes is a San Francisco Bay Area, California-based arts writer and editor whose interests include queer and feminist art. Her contemporary art writing focuses on issues of feminism, gender, race, queerness, the intersection of art and technology, and performance art. Her writing has appeared in Art Practical, KQED Arts, Daily Serving, and Hyperallergic, among other publications and catalogs.
She was a 2015 recipient of the Art Writing Workshop award from the Arts Writer Grant Program (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital) and was featured in the Queer Cultural Center's Emerging Scholars Program through a QCCA (Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts) panel, "Queer Technologies" in 2016. She has also presented her work at the Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Visual and Critical Studies Symposium at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. In 2016, she was a guest curator for The News at SOMArts in San Francisco, a performance arts showcase featuring new and experimental works-in-progress by queer and trans artists.
Emily currently is a regular freelance contributor to KQED Arts (2015–present) and was previously a Contributing Editor for Art Practical, among other roles. As an editor, she has worked prolifically with emerging and student writers as well as established critics and artists, and led staff training workshops for Art Practical. She has previously held roles in digital communications for the Oakland Museum of California and Heath Ceramics, specializing in editorial content creation, blogging, and website content management.
She holds a MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts and a BA in Visual Arts from The Evergreen State College.
Looking for a freelance art writer for your next catalog or publication? Need experienced editorial support? Drop me a line to share your project.
She was a 2015 recipient of the Art Writing Workshop award from the Arts Writer Grant Program (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital) and was featured in the Queer Cultural Center's Emerging Scholars Program through a QCCA (Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts) panel, "Queer Technologies" in 2016. She has also presented her work at the Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Visual and Critical Studies Symposium at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. In 2016, she was a guest curator for The News at SOMArts in San Francisco, a performance arts showcase featuring new and experimental works-in-progress by queer and trans artists.
Emily currently is a regular freelance contributor to KQED Arts (2015–present) and was previously a Contributing Editor for Art Practical, among other roles. As an editor, she has worked prolifically with emerging and student writers as well as established critics and artists, and led staff training workshops for Art Practical. She has previously held roles in digital communications for the Oakland Museum of California and Heath Ceramics, specializing in editorial content creation, blogging, and website content management.
She holds a MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts and a BA in Visual Arts from The Evergreen State College.
Looking for a freelance art writer for your next catalog or publication? Need experienced editorial support? Drop me a line to share your project.
