Tastemakers: Earth Mother with Paige Emery

Food in Tastemakers series

Saturday, May 9, 2026

12–2pm

Getty Center

Ada Louise Huxtable Lecture Hall

$60

Tickets are required for event entrance. Ticket price includes brunch buffet and beverages. Your event ticket will also serve as your Center entrance reservation. Please note, there is a fee for parking.

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Join us for a special Earth Day celebration featuring ecological artist and herbalist Paige Emery, which will include a talk and brunch inspired by historical cookbooks from the Getty Library collection.

While visitors enjoy select recipes, Paige will be joined in conversation with Melissa Goldstein—founder and editor of Mother Tongue magazine—to explore rituals of remembering the earth. Together, they will reflect on how art, healing practices, and ecological thought can reconnect us to ancestral memory and inspire more just and embodied futures.

Following the talk, Emery will perform a sound piece in the Getty Central Garden, weaving together the healing arts and critical ecology, ecopoetics and socio-environmental practice, inviting us to imagine deeper relationships with the natural world.

This event is part of the Getty Research Institute’s Tastemakers series, featuring communal gatherings inspired by cookbooks from the Getty Library.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's Exhibitions and Events page for more free programs.

1. Paige Emery
   ArtistPaige 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.
2. Melissa Goldstein
   Founder, Mother Tongue MagazineMelissa 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.