Selected Press / Publications as Author

19th Edition SeedBroadcast Agri-Culture Journal, "Seed of Life" by Emily C-D

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal #19
Seed of Life
by Emily C-D, 2022

"...At its essence, the seed sovereignty movement is imbued with a spirit of generosity, since it is grounded in the idea of free exchange of seeds among growers and the open sharing of knowledge of their conservation. As such, I was not surprised to encounter enthusiasm when I reached out to local seed savers about my project. Coordinating from my home in Mexico the borrowing of all these seeds in Santa Cruz, California was a feat of great complexity..."

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60wrd/min COVID Edition: Silent Acoustic


Newcity Art
60wrd/min COVID Edition: Silent Acoustic
by Lori Waxman, 2021

"...C-D also uses found wood, though more natural bits like trunk slices, kitchen spoons and branches, arranging them in shapes that evoke wall-mounted clocks and guitars. The artists explore the inherent spontaneity of their respective practices in a pair of videos. In one, C-D fluidly reworks a small ever-changing assemblage of wooden objects, twisted gray wire, nut shells and decorative metal doodads, complete with equally unscripted musical accompaniment..."

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Hudson Valley Seed Co Blog Pica Chile Mix Pack Art Backstory: A discussion with artist Emily C-D

Hudson Valley Seed Co Blog 
Pica Chile Mix Pack Art Backstory: 
A discussion with artist Emily C-D 
2020

"...It is through the seed-saving manual Semillas Para Todos (Seeds for Everyone) written by Somos Semilla, that we discovered artist Emily C-D's incredible watercolors found on nearly every page. Emily C-D’s stylized-yet-accurate rendering of chiles was part of a series of paintings made for the book, one of very few lushly illustrated Spanish language seed-saving guides, and we are honored that Emily shared this painting as an illustration for Pica Chile Mix..."

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14th Edition SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, Seed Women by Emily C-D

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal #14
Seed Women
by Emily C-D, 2020

"...I don’t know how a seed feels when the embryo breaks through the seedcoat, but it is nothing short of a drastic act. When a woman gives birth, a baby is born, but she the mother is also transformed. It is beautiful, but it is not easy. Sharing the painting with other mothers celebrated the creation and recognized the pain. In community, we created a powerful piece of public art that speaks to the beauty of seeds, and in so doing recognized our individual selves as part of something larger, interconnected, and full of life..."

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14th Edition SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, Flowering by Emily C-D

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal #14
Flowering: Here, There & Everywhere
by Emily C-D, 2020

"...As I see it, flowers spread their seeds on the wind to where they need to go to grow, meanwhile we humans are building walls and laws that impede our movement and therefor our growth. Could we be inspired by our plant teachers to let ourselves move to wherever we dream and deem is fertile soil for reaching our human potential? So it was that we landed on the concept of FLORECER, which in Spanish literally means to flower or bloom, but can be understood in a broader context as to flourish..."

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Solidarity Calls for Ending Immigration Detention, Florecer

International Detention Coalition Blog
Solidarity Calls for Ending Immigration Detention
2019

"...Invited by the organization Otros Dreams en Accion (ODA), they presented 6 joint proposals, symbolically represented (by binational artist Emily C-D) by a carpet in the shape of a mandala made of seeds, grains and flowers that remind us of human mobility, freedom of movement, nourishment, the ability to grow and flourish in different places, and painted posters in the hands of a compass that guides us...."

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Sembrando Sendero by Emily C-D in the Istmo Press

Istmo Press
Sembrado Sendero: Instalación artística de Emily C-D
por Víctor Fuentes, 2018

"...En este mismo lugar entre el puente Zapotal y el árbol de pochote, la artista Emily C-D, Originaria de Maryland, Estados Unidos, y ocho años viviendo en México. Encontró una oportunidad de instalar un sendero. Que conecte la vida derruida y el caudal. Después de varios días consecutivos de escardar, preparar el terreno y serpentear el camino utilizando los mismo ladrillos destruidos, vueltos basura, vueltos escombros. Esos escombros celebran una potencia inesperada del desorden al camino del arte, ofrece infinitas posibilidades..."

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The Deutsch Foundation Blog: Gardens are making ‘Greater Greenmount’ that much greater


The Deutsch Foundation Blog
Gardens are making ‘Greater Greenmount’ that much greater
by TD, 2013

"...The funds were used to continue to build community cohesiveness by enhancing the garden and by commissioning artists to incorporate their work within the garden. Local visual artist and MICA grad, Emily C-D was the mastermind behind the wonderfully vibrant Mexican-style, macrame weave that lines the fence surrounding the garden. She brought in other artists and recruited community folks to help..."

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Bmore Art Urb A&C Feature: Review of Emily C-D’s Intervenida by Cara Ober

Bmore Art Urb A&C Feature:
Review of Emily C-D’s Intervenida
by Cara Ober, 2012

"...When you enter Intervenida, at the Julio Gallery at Loyola University Maryland, there will be a stupid grin on your face. I guarantee it. Like Baltimore’s best fall weather, the collage-based installations of Emily C-D are exuberant but in the most comfortable, pleasant way. Although the works on display here are, for the most part, large and ambitious, they’re not confrontational or exclusive, the way a lot of contemporary art presents itself..."

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