1. Megan Wilson was born on 1969 and is an American visual artist, writer, and activist based in San Francisco.
13 Facts About Megan Wilson
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Megan Wilson's father was an oil and gas attorney and partner with the Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole and Dietrich firm in Billings, Montana for over 30 years until he left in 2002 to serve as Carbon County Attorney prior to his death in 2008.
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Megan Wilson's mother was Canadian and worked as an ophthalmic technician; she died in 2015.
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Megan Wilson moved out at the age of 16 and worked at Burger King her senior year of high school to support herself.
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Megan Wilson received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 1992 and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997.
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Megan Wilson has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of the Arts.
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In 2016 Megan Wilson designed and produced the organization's first Website, www.
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Megan Wilson co-organized the project with Apotik Komik of Indonesia and Intersection for the Arts.
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In 2017 Megan Wilson was one of six contemporary artists to be featured in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco's exhibition "Flower Power" as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love.
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Megan Wilson created a series of new "Flower Interruptions" inside the Museum, around the grounds of the Civic Center, San Francisco, and at satellite sites throughout San Francisco, including the Haight neighborhood, the Roxie Theater, Artists' Television Access, and Clarion Alley Mural Project.
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Megan Wilson has created a series of non-traditional mural installations using textiles and quilling at venues including the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho, Thirtyninehotel in Honolulu, HI, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.
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Megan Wilson is one of the first artists to use quilling as a contemporary art form outside of its historical use as a decorative craft on paper or household objects.
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Megan Wilson was an art writer for the San Francisco Bay Guardian 2000 - 2001.