Fowler in the City: Art, Land, and Urban Memory with Paige Emery
IN-PERSON; OFF-SITE IN LA
Join the Fowler Museum for a two-part, off-site program inspired by the exhibition Construction, Occupation, exploring themes of displacement, memory, and resistance in Los Angeles’s urban landscape.
This offering features a guided walking tour of Northeast LA River area and Elysian Valley led by Paige Emery, whose ecological art practice invites participants to experience the city as a site of both construction and resistance. Through the lens of materiality, nature, memory, and the layered lives that shape LA’s streets and spaces, Emery’s work encourages a reflective engagement with place, presence, and power.
Paige Emery is an ecological artist and herbalist whose practice explores the intersections of healing, environmental justice, and memory. Rooted in art, ancestral medicine, and eco-philosophy, her work blends plant rituals, sound, and embodied walks to connect people with the land and its layered histories. Emery has presented her work at institutions including Biosphere 2 (Arizona), the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Biennale Gherdëina (Italy), and Earth Medicine Apothecary. Her practice encompasses guided ecology walks, guerrilla gardening as a form of resistance, and multispecies rituals that explore how landscapes hold memory and meaning across time.
This program is co-sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute
