Enid’s Books

  • Plant Magic at Home: A Complete Guide to Harnessing the Power of Nature from Rituals to DIYs

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    There is natural healing magic right in your backyard—in the form of powerful plants—and it has never been easier or more sustainable to access.

    Whether you live in a forested lush area or a bustling urban environment, you can extract the properties and magic of plants. Plants hold the power of emotional and spiritual healing, which you can access through their physical or metaphysical properties. This comprehensively researched book will teach you how to forage or grow the plant, classify it, and use its color or properties for no-waste sustainable spells or crafts. Make paint from flowers and more!

  • The Borderlands Tarot/ El Tarot de Tierras Fronterizas A Bilingual Deck and Guidebook (Spanish-English)

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    From Running Press, this deluxe, fully bilingual tarot deck (in English and Spanish) is a beautifully hand-painted evocative exploration of the ecosystem inspired by the border between the U.S. and Mexico, complete with a bilingual guidebook for card readings and housed in a keepsake box.

  • From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments

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    Edited by Irene Georgia Tsatsos. Contributions by Olivia Chumacero, Sean C. Lahmeyer, Hillary Mushkin, Enid Baxter Ryce, David Delgado Shorter, PhD, and Irene Georgia Tsatsos.

    Serving as a companion to the Getty PST From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments exhibition, An online reader version of this publication can be accessed via this link.

  • Borderlands Environmental Research Guide

    Link here.

    Created for the Library of Congress as part of the Mexicali Biennial, co-edited by Enid Baxter Ryce and William Cowan, phD, written in collaboration with William Cowan, Emmanuel Ortega, and Heather Williams.

  • Against Eden

    Commissioned by CalTech, a chapbook illustrating the essay by Banu Subramaniam created for Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science.

  • Planet Ord

    Third printing available to benefit Downtown Book and Sound, Salinas CA.

    Images of Fort Ord's past and present, including hand-painted maps, archival photographs from Fort Ord yearbooks, and the only comprehensive documentation of the soldier murals of Fort Ord. A companion to the Planet Ord project

  • War and the Weather, documentary

    Created for Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival. An animated documentary featuring the music of Philip Glass, War and the Weather is an experimental history of Atmospheric Rivers. The film explores the cultural context of this new science of rivers in the sky, featuring their impact on the colonization of the American West. The film premiered at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and was featured at Glimmerglass film days. It was produced by Will Cowan and workshopped at the USC-Huntington Center for the American West.

  • A Land for War, Documentary

    Available from Grasshopper Films. In 2009, artist and professor Enid Baxter Ryce entered the abandoned buildings of the historic Fort Ord military base and discovered hundreds of wall paintings drawn by soldiers who'd been stationed there. Ryce has been documenting and studying this decommissioned base ever since. In her documentary, A Land for War, she presents and discusses these remarkable, long-hidden murals – offering unique insight into the soldiers' lives – alongside archival training footage from the Vietnam War era (when Fort Ord was active), images of wind-swept landscapes from one of the last stretches of California coastal wilderness, and portraits of homeless veterans occupying the land today. This striking work is a haunting meditation on the impact of the military on the land and the people.

  • California Video: Artists and Histories

    Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s, California artists have been at the forefront of an international movement that has expanded video into the realm of fine art. Whether designing complex video installations, devising lush projections, experimenting with electronic psychedelia, creating conceptual and performance art, generating guerilla video, or producing works that promote feminism and other social issues, these artists have utilized video technology to express revolutionary ideas. This illustrated volume focuses on fifty-eight artists, including Enid Baxter Ryce (nee Blader)

Current Projects:

Upcoming Solo Exhibitions:

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.- screening of War and the Weather (TBD - 2021)

Glimmerglass, Cooperstown, NY (TBD - November 2021)

Atmosphere - Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz (Opening February 2022)

Links to past Placemaking Projects:

Planet Ord

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