Art plays a significant role in shaping and inspiring the human experience. At Women Rising Wild, we cherish the arts and artists who produce celebratory and honoring works of beauty and intrigue.  Our artists’ work promotes nature connection, conservation, and wildlife protection. Through multimedia storytelling, we raise awareness about environmental issues and evoke emotional intimacy with the subject, thereby fostering empathy, care, and action for nature. 

Welcome, to our Artists in Residence.

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Artists’ Spotlight

Emily Rossell (Artist in Residence, 2026)
Artist/Teacher/Owner at Move Through Love

In 2026, we are honored to welcome Emily Rossell as our Women Rising Wild Artist-in-Residence.

Emily is a kirtan leader, yoga teacher, storyteller, and guide whose work invites us home—to our voices, our bodies, one another, and the deeper wisdom that lives within.

For more than thirteen years, Emily has shared the ecstatic practice of Kirtan, offering mantra as a living transmission that quiets the mind, opens the heart, and awakens presence and connection. Through embodied voice work, movement, music, and story, she creates spaces where people can soften, listen, remember, and reclaim their authentic expression.

Rooted in tantric tradition, Emily’s work weaves movement, breath, meditation, mantra, intuitive practice, and the healing power of being witnessed in community. At the heart of all she offers is a beautifully simple truth: healing unfolds when we feel seen, supported, and connected.

This understanding resonates deeply with the heart of Women Rising Wild.

Our Artist-in-Residence program honors art not simply as something we create, but as a way of knowing—a living practice through which we can reconnect with ourselves, the natural world, and one another. Emily brings the ancient and deeply human art forms of voice, mantra, movement, and story into this space, inviting us to experience the body itself as an instrument of expression, remembrance, and belonging.

We are delighted to welcome Emily into the wild with us and look forward to the music, stories, connection, and unexpected beauty that will emerge from her time with Women Rising Wild.

Welcome, Emily. We are so glad you are here.

Learn more about Emily and her work through Move Through Love and on Instagram.

Debbie Marcinkowski (Artist in Residence, 2025)
Artist/Owner at Snow Lion Studios

For most of her life, Debbie has been compelled to express her awareness of the natural world – where she finds her sanctuary – in ink, paints, pastels, and graphite. Immersion in the present moment of her surroundings leads to colors, lines, and words illuminating pages of sketchbooks, capturing the essence not only for herself, but to convey to others. Her works of art are observations of these fragments in time.

Significance of the Snow Lion: The mythical snow lion represents joy and fearlessness. Its movement is graceful and unafraid as it traverses uncharted territories with vibrant enthusiasm; it inspires us to take action. An untamed spirit, the snow lion possesses unwavering determination evidenced in its steadfast gaze. These qualities guided Debbie’s path as she stepped away from a 25-year career in nonprofit funding and management to delve into creative work full time. From time spent in mountain ranges of the Andes to the Himalaya climbing and volunteering, to more daily art inspired by frequent hikes across her home of Colorado, she feels deeply connected to the Earth and the creatures that roam the land like her spirit-animal, the bear.

In addition to her small, intimate works and larger commissions, her storytelling is expanding with larger bodies of researched work depicting topics like the Colorado River water system and including collaborative efforts with relevant authors and a composer whose work seeks to give Earth a voice.

Connect with Debbie:
http://www.snowlionstudios.com
Find her on IG
@ debbiemarcinkowski
@ snow.lion.studios

Adrienne Stohr Lewis (Artist in Residence, 2024)
Mixed Media Artist, Community Herbalist, & Creativity Coach
at OTTER WOMAN eARTh Medicine
Adrienne believes that working creatively with the healing wisdom of nature, women can find their own health and personal freedom. She says “You are the link between the earth and the sky, between your health and happiness, between the dreams you have and your calling here on eARTh.”
Adrienne’s creative works captivate the heart – inspiring curiosity, openness, and a will to connect to something wilder inside ourselves. Her imagery charges viewers with ancient shamanistic healing energies that arise through her own reciprocal current of love, compassion, and care with the more than human world while engaging in her own therapeutic process with nature.
Connect with Adrienne:
stohrlewis@gmail.com
otterwoman.com
Find her on IG