Judith Wilson is a writer and art historian. Wilson was born in Oakland, California, in 1952. She earned a BA in literature at Bennington College and a PhD in art history from Yale University. Wilson has written for several publications, including Ms. magazine, Essence magazine, Village Voice, and Art in America. She has taught at several universities, including University of Virginia and the University of California, Irvine. In this interview, Wilson discusses her family and childhood in Oakland, including early education and exposure to art, as well as family history; travel experiences; education at Bennington College, including curriculum, culture shock, and professors; studying at the University of Ghana; working at Black Scholar magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle, including transcription of Cinque Mtume's demands after Patty Hearst's kidnapping; work for Ms. magazine, including Gloria Steinem, people she met and interviewed, and articles she wrote; interest in feminism; life in New York City, including apartments, financial struggles, and jobs; impact of multiple sclerosis on her life; community of artists and writers in New York, including Bill Hutson, Howardena Pindell, Raymond Saunders, and Ntozake Shange; involvement with the National Association of Third World Writers and The Sisterhood; personal art practice; growing interest in Black artists; racism in the art world; work as a book critic at Art in America; education at Yale University, including dissertation on artist Bob Thompson, and faculty such as Sylvia Ardyn Boone and Robert Farris Thompson; work in the Education Department at The New Museum of Contemporary Art and with the Hatch-Billops Collection; exhibitions, including Lorraine O'Grady: Critical Interventions in 1991; teaching experiences; Lifetime Achievement Award from the James A. Porter Symposium; involvement with Afro-American Art History Newsletter; meeting her current husband; and reflections on her dedication to writing and teaching about African American art.