She received her Masters in Fine Art at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Wilson has designed and worked with many local, national, and international theater groups. In 2006 she won the LA Weekly Award in costume design for Machiavelli. Since the OLLI Arts Forum meets at the same time as her Beginning Makeup class, she will do her class session at OLLI and explore the importance of makeup in character design and how it relates to the design of non-human, anthropomorphic characters and do a makeup demonstration, transforming a human form into an animal.