Tastemakers: Earth Mother with Paige Emery

Paige Emery is an ecological artist, herbalist, and medicine woman exploring rituals of remembering the Earth. Her work interweaves healing arts and critical ecology, ancestral memory and embodied futurities, ecopoetics and socioenvironmental praxis. As a way of life, her practice is rooted in reciprocity with the Earth.

Paige’s practice stems from a background in art, herbalism, ancestral medicine, eco-philosophy, environmentalism, and learning from the Earth. At the foundation of her decolonial, eco-feminist work are ways of being in relationship. Her offerings serve as a bridge between the internal and external landscapes of ecological consciousness through guided plant rituals, plant paintings and installations, ecopoetic meditations, embodied ecology walks, more-than-human music performances, and sharing plant remedies with her community.

Melissa Goldstein is the co-founder of Mother Tongue, a micro media brand devoted to amplifying women’s stories—in print, on social media and via live events. Its biannual magazine (launched in 2021) interrogates modern motherhood through a cultural lens with stories that span art, sex, food, politics and pop culture, fueling conversations that challenge and evolve predominant narratives. An arts and culture journalist by trade, Melissa has also contributed to T Magazine, ELLE, Spin, and C Magazine, and co-authored the interiors book Abode.