Enid Baxter Ryce is an author, artist, and filmmaker. She exhibits internationally at museums and festivals. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Artforum, Artreviews, The Los Angeles Times, and many others. She is co-PI on a 5 year, $1.25 million National Institutes of Health grant, and is a researcher on a Getty Foundation PST Project for the Armory Center for the Arts. Part of this work will be done in collaboration with the Huntington Botanical Gardens.
Her book, The Borderlands Tarot, will be published by Running Press in 2024, which will publish another of her books in 2025. A former guest curator for the MexiCali Binennial, Enid is the Community Engagement Director and a Science Curator for the Philip Glass Center for Art, Science, and the Environment. She recently co-edited and co-authored a Library of Congress Research Guide called Borders, Nature, and the West Her film, War and the Weather, featuring the music of Philip Glass premiered at the National Gallery of Art Theater in Washington, D.C.
Enid has won awards for her work as an artist and arts educator and her large-scale community-based environmental arts projects created for museums and government agencies. She has an MFA in Visual Arts having studied at The Cooper Union, Yale University and Claremont Graduate University. Enid is Professor of Cinematic Arts and Environmental Studies at CSU Monterey Bay.
She no longer performs as a musician.
Full cv (19 pages) upon request.
Current Projects:
Enid is a researcher on the Getty Foundation Art x Science Initiative project, From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments, a forward-looking ethnobotanical study undertaken as the basis of a forthcoming exhibition and an accompanying publication at Armory Center for the Arts.
Enid is co-P.I. Enid is co-P.I. (with P.I. Dan Fernandez and researchers Brenda Eskenazi, Asa Bradman and Corin Slown) on the National Institutes of Health (NIH-SEPA) grant STEM through the Arts.
Enid will be screening her new film War and the Weather (featuring Philip Glass) and creating artwork for the CalTech - Huntington seminar, “Speculative Worlds: Imagining Past and Future Science” as part of the Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science series.
Enid is the Community Outreach Director for the Philip Glass Center for Art, Science and the Environment.
Recent Solo Exhibitions:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - screening of War and the Weather (2021)
Glimmerglass (Fall 2021)
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (2022)
Links to past Placemaking Projects:
