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Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter
Award-Winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer & Cultural Worker
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter
Award-Winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer & Cultural Worker
Biography
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, writer, pedagogue, and cultural worker based in Philadelphia PA. As a visionary thought leader creating socially conscious music, film, performance, and visual art, her practice embodies resilience, care, and community-centeredness while working at the intersections of reproductive justice, black feminist thought and transformative change.
In recent years, Baxter worked as an executive producer as well as starred alongside the indomitable Faith Ringgold in Paint Me a Road Out of Here (PMAR), which premiered at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC on June 14, 2024.
Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including MoMA PS1, New York; the African American Museum of Philadelphia; Frieze LA; Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia; Ben & Jerry’s Factory in Waterbury, Vermont; Martos Gallery, New York; the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Ohio; Brown University, Rhode Island; the Schomburg, New York; Yale Art Gallery, Connecticut; the National Museum of World Cultures Leiden, Netherlands; Two Rivers Gallery, British Columbia; as well as a solo exhibition in 2023 at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Ms. Baxter is also an inaugural 2017 Right of Return fellow; a 2018 and 2019 Mural Arts Philadelphia Reimagining Reentry fellow; a 2019 Leeway Foundation Transformation awardee; a 2021 Ed Trust Justice fellow; a 2021 Frieze Impact Prize award winner; a 2022 S.O.U.R.C.E Studio Corrina Mehiel Fellow; 2022 Art 4 Justice grantee partner; 2022 Pratt Forward fellow; 2022 Artist2Artist Art Matters Foundation grantee and grantor; and a 2023 Soros Justice fellow.
On February 2, 2024, Baxter received a Governors’ Pardon from Josh Shapiro and the CommonWealth of Pennsylvania, thus honoring her transformative work in the arts and culture sector as well as Baxter's 17 year commitment to communal healing, advocacy and repair.
Speaker Videos
Marking Time Symposium- In Conversation: Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter and Anisa Jackson
Art: Panel Discussions and Book Launch, Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space
Rendering Justice: Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter
Do We Look Free?: Art/Prisons/Liberation
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter aka Isis Tha Saviour (Reimagining Reentry Fellow)
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