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Emily K. Holmes is a Sacramento Valley, 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.
Emily was a 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. 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 has been a regular freelance contributor to KQED Arts 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 was recently the editor of Generations an artist's book by Klea McKenna that was named one of Art in America's Best Photography Books of 2018.
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.
Emily was a 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. 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 has been a regular freelance contributor to KQED Arts 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 was recently the editor of Generations an artist's book by Klea McKenna that was named one of Art in America's Best Photography Books of 2018.
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.
