Enid Baxter Ryce is an author, artist, and filmmaker. She has new books scheduled for publication, including The Borderlands Tarot/el Tarot del Tierras Fronterizas (Running Press, 2024), From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments (edited by Irene Tsatsos, Armory Press, 2024), Plant Magic at Home: A Complete Guide to Harnessing the Power of Nature From Rituals to DIYs (Running Press, 2025), and Magical Echoes of the Ancients (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2026).

Enid also 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 five-year, $1.25 million National Institutes of Health grant and a researcher on a Getty Foundation PST Project for the Armory Center for the Arts. Part of this work will be done with the Huntington Botanical Gardens.

Enid is a former guest curator for the MexiCali Biennial, the Community Engagement Director, and 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 Philip Glass's music, 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 art 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 screen her new film War and the Weather (featuring Philip Glass) and create 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.