ELIZA SWANN aka EMERALD is a writer, artist, educator and alchemist based in New York City.

Emerald x Syd Botanica are pleased to announce the arrival of METEORITE - a perfume formulated to smell like a meteor making contact with Earth.

UPCOMING

2024

The Strength Card, LA Times

Meteorite Perfume

2/11/24 - 4/7 The Alchemical Imagination, Golden Dome School

3/5/24 Return to the Root: The Magic of Mary Magdalene, Philosophical Research Society

3/13/24 Museum of Scent with Mandy Aftel, Philosophical Research Society

3/17/24 Energy Carwash with Angel Favorite, Philosophical Research Society

5/18/24 Return to the Root: The Magic of Mary Magdalene, Golden Dome School

10/21/24 Poems From the Deep: Scrying 101, Atlas Obscura

11/2/24 A Queer Light: The Art of Alchemy, Modern Witches Confluence

2023

Lecturer-in-Residence, Philosophical Research Society

Community in Mysticism, Hyperallergic

They Made Him Gray: Harry Smith at the Whitney, Momus

Failures in Infinitives: Bernadette Mayer, Momus

Interview on KBoo Radio

Interview in Canvas


1/21/23
Moons in Mirrors: Divination, Golden Dome School 

2/7/23 
NATURE CHARMS NATURE: Alchemy, Honey’s

2/19/23
The Alchemical Imagination, Golden Dome School

3/7/23
VISIONS OF ZOSIMOS: Alchemy, Honey’s

4/20/23
A Psychic Tour of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

5/13/23
NATURE CHARMS NATURE: Alchemy, PRS

5/27/23
VISIONS OF ZOSIMOS: Alchemy, PRS

7/18/23
INVOCATION OF MERCURY + Tarot-thon for Trans Rights, Honey’s

9/2/23
33, Philosophical Research Society

9/19/23
Resurrection of Care, Honey’s

10/31/23 Witchfest, Honey’s

12/2/23 The Vessel and the Void: Scrying 101, Urban Glass

2022

6/5/22 A Psychic Tour of Salem, Now Age Tours

6/22/22
A Psychic Tour of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

7/7/22
A Psychic Tour of the Brooklyn Museum 

7/10/22
Psychic Workers Unite, Golden Dome School

9/17/22
Boiling and Divine, Philosophical Research Society

9/22/22
The Stars Give and the Flowers Recieve: Alchemy and Perfume Making, Philosophical Research Society

10/8/22
Visions of Zosimos: Art and Alchemy, Philosophical Research Society

10/30/22
Cosmic Dispatch Radio with Cory Nakasue and JM Hamade

10/31/22
Night of the Living Death: Alchemy and Fermentation, Honey’s

11/3/22
A Psychic Tour of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

2021

3/20/21 The Alchemical Imagination, Golden Dome School

5/15/21
Tarot Initiates, Golden Dome School

8/5/21
A Psychic Tour of Nikki De Saint Phalle, MOMA PS1

8/24/21
Toxic/Tonic, BUSHEL

9/11/21
Other Places Art Fair, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center

9/19/21
The Resurrection of Care, Los Angeles

9/25/21
The Work of the Sun, Flower Head

11/6/21
The Time is Now, ZOOM, Golden Dome School

12/26/21 
The Cosmic Dispatch, Radio Kingston