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Better Homes and Gardens (2000) Public Project, San Francisco, CA

My project Better Homes and Gardens was included with an image in the essay: Neighborhood Watch A Microhistory of the Mission School by Glen Helfand; page 346, plate 300.



SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
75 YEARS OF LOOKING FORWARD
Edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, Sarah Roberts
Published December 2009
ISBN: 978-0-918471-83-3
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Home/Casa (2000) Acrylic on pavement, Mural on Clarion Alley, San Francisco, CA

I contributed Sama-Sama: Mural Missionaries and an image and description of my project Home/Casa;
pages 170-171, 207

STREET ART SAN FRANCISCO
MISSION MURALISMO
edited by Annice Jacoby with Forward by Carlos Santana
Published by Abrams June 2009
ISBN: 978-0810996359


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Megan Wilson, collage of images from Home, 1996-2008; photographs Copyright ©2008 Eliza Barrios
David Ireland, collage of images from 500 Capp Street; Original photographs Copyright ©1986 Abe Frajndlich.

In Memoriam: David Ireland 1930 – 2009
SFMOMA Open Space
Curated by SF artist and musician Scott Hewicker

In conjunction with the memorial Scott Hewicker curated a collection of contributions from younger artists that included: Allison Shields, Nayland Blake, John Zurier, Cliff Hengst, Tony Labat, Gay Outlaw, Guy Overfelt, Veronica De Jesus, Keith Evans, Nina Zurier, Vince Fecteau, Charles Goldman, Bob Linder, Ella Tideman, Kathryn Spence, Jesse Schlesinger, Moira Murdoch, Chris Sollars, Megan Wilson, and Rebecca Goldfarb

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September 24 – November 22, 2009
Art on Market Street
San Francisco Arts Commission Kiosk Poster Project
Bedford Gallery curated by Carrie Lederer and Judy Moran

From the SFAC Website:
Bedford Gallery Curator Carrie Lederer worked collaboratively with the Art on Market Street Project Manager Judy Moran to organize the exhibition. Lederer points out, “this exhibition has significance in the field of public art, as a retrospective look at an ongoing project. Few of us ever have the chance to enjoy the whole series while it’s up on Market Street. This will allow viewers to take in the complete picture. The caliber of this project is an example for Arts Commissions everywhere—an idea worth aspiring to.”

Artists, who create their poster designs in a range of media, have included such well known names as: Seyed Alavi, Katherine Aoki, Mildred Howard, Amanda Hughen, Jason Jagel, Packard Jennings, Abner Nolan, Owen Smith, Megan Wilson and Jenifer Wofford. Each commissioned artist or artist team creates a series of six poster designs based on a single theme that are reproduced into posters for a three month exhibition. Recently, the Art on Market Street Kiosk Program has had an annual theme, such as “Bay Area Urban Systems” or “San Francisco Stories”, and each series now includes an auxiliary public program.

Exhibition Artists: Amy Claire Trachtenberg, Jon Rubin, Mark Brest van Kempen, Margaret Kilgallen, Maya Hayuk, Kara Maria, Katherine Aoki, Jason Jagel, Megan Wilson, Mildred Howard, René Garcia & John Leaños, Abner Nolan, Amanda Hughen & Jennifer Starkweather, Helena Keeffe, Margaret Kilgallen, Packard Jennings & Steve Lambert, Owen Smith, Jenifer K Wofford, and Briana Miller & Thien Pham

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2 / Nomads and Residents
Home, balance, and noise figure prominently in Issue 2. In their Features, the vulnerability of tenancy underlies Adrienne Skye Roberts and Megan Wilson’s reflections on transforming their private residences into exhibition spaces. Renny Pritikin looks at the end of SoEx's nomadic ways with the opening of its new home. Bruno Fazzolari, Carol Anne McChrystal, and Zachary Royer Scholz discuss radically different material strategies for creating balance and flux. And Brady Welch and Jess Brier examine two of the more dissonant avant-garde endeavors of the 20th century: Futurism and punk rock. Enjoy!
- Patricia Maloney, Managing Editor


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Home is a four letter word.
by Adrienne Skye Roberts

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Bio
Megan Wilson grew up in Montana. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 1992 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997. Her work has been exhibited nationally in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles in California, Sun Valley, Idaho, and Honolulu, Hawaii; and internationally in Tokyo, Japan; Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Paris, France; Jaipur, India, and Manila Philippines. Wilson is a recipient of grant awards from the Gunk Foundation, Artadia, the Asian Cultural Council, Ford Foundation and San Francisco Foundation and in 2008 she was nominated for a United States Artists' Fellowship. She is also a writer and art critic. She co-founded the San Francisco based arts Website www.stretcher.org. Her writings have appeared in stretcher.org, afterimage, Digitalcity, Public Art Review, and Art Practical; and in the book Street Art San Franciso Mission Muralismo (edited by Annice Jacoby with Forward by Carlos Santana) From 2000 - 2004, she was the co-director of the Clarion Alley Mural Project. In 2002-03 she initiated, curated, co-directed and participated in Sama-sama/Together, an international exchange project between artists from San Francisco and Apotik Komik of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The catalog for the project, Sama-sama/Together An International Exchange Project between Yogyakarta-San Francisco was published in May 2006 by Jam Karet Press and is available at Intersection for the Arts. Wilson's work is included with an image in the essay: "Neighborhood Watch A Microhistory of the Mission School" by Glen Helfand for the book San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward, edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, Sarah Roberts

Wilson is currently creating a permanent installation for a private collector in San Francisco; and beginning new work based on her experiences over the past year, including the move from her home of 13 years, travels through Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines, and her practices of Buddhism and Vipassana meditation.

Wilson's recent projects include the installation Home Sectional created for the exhibition Inside/Outside: Artist Environments at the Museum of Folk and Craft Art and the installation The Grass Is Always Greener at Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

Curriculum Vitae (with links)
Curriculum Vitate (printable PDF)