Sky Midtown and Speculative Southwest proudly present An Evening with the Emshwillers: Art, Stories & Cinema. Join in as Susan Emshwiller takes us through the striking, beautiful, and bizarre artistic worlds created by herself and her remarkable parents: Carol & Ed Emshwiller.

See! Gorgeous book and magazine covers Ed conceived for some of the most notable science fiction from the mid 20th century.

Hear! Beguilingly odd fantasies and fables of Carol's writing.

Experience! The experimental and forward thinking films from Ed's career, including some of the earliest digital effects in cinema.

All this and more on Saturday, November 14, at 6:30 at the Sky Midtown Theater in Santa Fe.

More about the Emshwillers: 

Carol Emshwiller (1921 – 2019) was an American writer of avant-garde stories and science fiction who won prizes for her work including the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction." 

With an immensely diverse body of creative work, Ed Emshwiller (1925-90) is perhaps one of the most significant yet under-recognized artists of the latter half of the 20th century. Emshwiller’s career spanned abstract expressionist painting, commercial illustration, film, video, and computer art, and collaborations with dancers, choreographers, and composers."

Susan Emshwiller’s worn several hats: filmmaker, playwright, screenwriter, director, set decorator, actress, painter, teacher. In Hollywood, her “day-job” for many years was as a set-decorator for directors such as Michael Apted, David Mamet, and Robert Altman. As an actress, she was featured in Robert Altman's The Player.