About Golden Dome
Founded in 2014 as an art school for mystics, Golden Dome has remained committed to rigorous spiritual, artistic, and communal inquiry. Over its first decade, Golden Dome evolved into a curatorial and educational platform offering immersive courses, public rituals, artist residencies, exhibitions, performances, and publications across the United States.
Our annual Resurrection of Care ritual gave members of our community an opportunity to renew our vows to each other and our earth and reinforce our resistance to the greed and exploitation that threatens our world. Golden Dome has collaborated with numerous cultural institutions including Coaxial Arts, Feminist Center for Creative Work, The Hammer Museum, The Philosophical Research Society, and more.
In 2025, founder Eliza Swann expanded this vision by establishing The Emerald School of Alchemical Arts, a dedicated platform for the study of magic, alchemy, and radical creativity. Taught solely by Swann, the school deepens Golden Dome’s commitment to transformative, esoteric education.
Today, Golden Dome supports projects that echo and extend its founding ethos, honoring models of communal learning and fostering endeavors that reimagine the boundaries of artistic disciplines. Throughout our evolution our values have remained steady: we encourage questions and support intellectual, spiritual and creative freedom. We treat magic as a restorative practice that nurtures people and the planet, and we embrace animism as a framework that counters the harm of extractive, profit-driven systems.
The Golden Dome was founded by artist and mystic Eliza Swann in 2014, and nurtured by an expanding circle of essential collaborators.
Who is Golden Dome?
Founding Director and CEO: Eliza Swann
Treasurer: Angel Favorite
Secretary: Christian Toscano
Designers: Samantha Rehark, Lucky Benson
Visiting Curators and Organizers: Edgar Fabián Frías, Grace Kredell, Mireya Lucio
Previous Members of the Board of Directors
Star Feliz, Edgar Fabián Frías, Tiffany Hopkins, Grace Kredell, Patrick Mansfield, Merkel, Louise Mittleman, Maria Molteni, Lolo Nosanchuk, Saewon Oh, Samantha Rehark, Yumi Sakugawa, Lavender Suarez, Grace Woodard
Visiting Faculty
Susan Aberth, Chiron Armand, Liz Armstrong, Haylin Belay, Genevieve Belleveau, Lucky Benson, Mandana Boushee, Brian Cotnoir, Maja D’Aoust, Jovencio De La Paz, Òscar Moisés Díaz, Diva Dompe, Star Feliz, Edgar Fabián Frías, Amanda Yates Garcia, Dr. Neal Goldsmith, Amy Hale, JM Hamade, Asher Hartman, Frank Haines, Johanna Hedva, Ryan Hill, Madre Jaguar, Sarah Johnson, Grace Kredell, Marcella Kroll, Kwonyin, Natalie Labriola, Brendan Landis, Mireya Lucio, Guadalupe Maravilla, Matthewdavid’s Mindflight, Machine, Patrick Mansfield, Sarah Manuwal, Mollie McKinley, Zeljko Mcmullen, Linda Montano, Jasmine Moorhead, Cory Nakasue, Saewon Oh, Rachel Pollack, Ron Regé Jr., Yunuen Rhi, Yumi Sakugawa, Stacy Jo Scott, Penny Slinger, Laura Berlin Stinger, Lavender Suarez, Eliza Swann, Michelle Tea, Christian Toscano, Laurie Weeks, Jonah Welch, Laura Zuspan
Artists in Residence
Grace Amber, Joana Ayala, Adolfo Ibanez Ayerve, Lucky Benson, Mackenzie Budd, Richmond Burton, Mae Chesney, Annie Connole, Nire Cuana, Dominique Dawson, Anais Delsol, Von DeWitt, Nick Dinnerstein, Stephanie Dowda, Bekah Fly, Agnieszka Forfa, Angel Garcia, Gabriella Garcia, Wade Gasque, Julie Gemuend, Sarah Gottesdiener, Allison Halter, Jay Hamade, Lacey Hedtke, Lenora Jayne, Candace Kita, Kathryn Knowlton, Grace Kredell, Melissa Krodman, Kwonyin, Molly Larkey, Gracelee Lawrence, Alison Beth Levy, Merkel, Mireya Lucio, Kat Hunt, Jillayne Hunter, Sarah Manuwal, Patrick Mansfield, Catherine Menard, Lindsay Minnich, Na Mira, Natalia Molina, Maria Molteni, Kendall Riley Morgan, Claire Morton, Cory Nakasue, Lolo Nosanchuk, Samantha Noseworthy, Loren Nosen, Diana Paez, Joshua Patterson, Adrian Pijoan, Samantha Rehark, Philip Rodin, Glenda Romualdo, Este Sanchez, Lauren Stroh, Corkey Sinks, Kb Thomason, Emilia Turner, Monica Uszerowicz, Tracy Van Oosten, Brooke Underwood, Amber Wallin, Sophie White, Yejin Yoo, Lauryn Youden, Jennifer Zackin, Ava Zelkowitz, Roze Zepeda
About Eliza Swann
Eliza Swann, also known as Emerald, is a writer, artist, alchemist and scholar based in New York.
Swann's formative years cultivated a deep interest in the intertwined studies of mysticism and the arts, which remain central to their work as both artist and educator.
Swann holds a BA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute (2004) and an MFA from Central St. Martins in London (2012). Their studies also include initiatory work in Gnostic and Hermetic orders, Vedic cosmology with Dr. Vagsish Shastri, mindfulness meditation at the Insight Meditation Society, and training in herbalism and land-based practice with their witch aunt and other teachers—experiences that shape their integrated approach to esoteric and ecological arts. As a visual artist, Swann has exhibited internationally, with recent presentations at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles. They are the author of The Anatomy of the Aura, Green Mary, and The Alchemical Imagination, and have contributed to numerous publications.
