Enid Baxter Ryce is an award-winning author, artist, and filmmaker. Her new and upcoming books include 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). She recently co-edited and co-authored a Library of Congress Research Guide called Borders, Nature, and the West.
Enid has exhibited internationally at museums and festivals, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Arnolfini, The Getty, Glimmerglass, and the Harvard Film Archive. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, People en Español, The Los Angeles Times, on CBS Radio News and NPR. 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. Part of this work was done with the Huntington Botanical Gardens. Enid is a former guest curator for the MexiCali Biennial and Community Programs Curator for the Philip Glass Center for Art, Science, and the Environment, where she created her film War and the Weather, featuring the music of Philip Glass.
Enid has completed several fellowship programs, including at the National Academy of Sciences, the Getty Foundation, the Western Growers and Shppers, and Yale University. Most recently, she was granted a Sephardic Stories Initiative fellowship by PJ Library. She has an MFA in Visual Arts, having studied at The Cooper Union and Claremont Graduate University. Enid is Professor of Cinematic Arts with a focus in Scientific and Environmental Storytelling at CSU Monterey Bay.
She no longer performs as a musician.
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