Project Description
Artist Profile
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter is an award-winning Philadelphia based multidisciplinary artist, educator, and activist who creates socially conscious music, film, and visual art through an autobiographical lens to develop, articulate, and convey intersectional counter narratives that interrogate the ways in which the historical over-policing and exploitation of Black bodies facilitate, perpetuate, and often legitimize the continued subjugation of Black people in America.
Although it has been a decade since her release from a Pennsylvania prison, her time spent on the inside continues to shape the direction of her art and practice. Her work has been exhibited at venues including MoMA PS1, African American Museum of Philadelphia, Eastern State Penitentiary, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Ben & Jerry’s Factory in Waterbury Vermont, and Martos Gallery among others.
Ms. Baxter is also a 2017 Soze Right of Return Fellow, 2018 and 2019 Mural Arts Philadelphia Reimagining Reentry Fellow, 2019 Leeway Foundation Transformation Awardee, 2021 Ed Trust Justice Fellow, 2021 SheaMoisture and GOOD MIRRORS Emerging Visionary grantee, 2021 Frieze Impact Prize award winner, 2022 S.O.U.R.C.E Studio Artist in Residence and a 2022 Art 4 Justice Grantee Partner.
Artist Profile
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter is an award-winning Philadelphia based multidisciplinary artist, educator, and activist who creates socially conscious music, film, and visual art through an autobiographical lens to develop, articulate, and convey intersectional counter narratives that interrogate the ways in which the historical over-policing and exploitation of Black bodies facilitate, perpetuate, and often legitimize the continued subjugation of Black people in America.
Although it has been a decade since her release from a Pennsylvania prison, her time spent on the inside continues to shape the direction of her art and practice. Her work has been exhibited at venues including MoMA PS1, African American Museum of Philadelphia, Eastern State Penitentiary, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Ben & Jerry’s Factory in Waterbury Vermont, and Martos Gallery among others.
Ms. Baxter is also a 2017 Soze Right of Return Fellow, 2018 and 2019 Mural Arts Philadelphia Reimagining Reentry Fellow, 2019 Leeway Foundation Transformation Awardee, 2021 Ed Trust Justice Fellow, 2021 SheaMoisture and GOOD MIRRORS Emerging Visionary grantee, 2021 Frieze Impact Prize award winner, 2022 S.O.U.R.C.E Studio Artist in Residence and a 2022 Art 4 Justice Grantee Partner.