ANNOUNCEMENT: Baxter St, in partnership with YoungArts, is thrilled to announce Coralina Rodriguez-Meyer (@coralinarodriguezmeyer), the 2025 YoungArts (@youngarts) Baxter St Residency recipient. ⁠ •⁠ Translating #matriarchal preservation rituals from 5,000 bce Andean mummies into archival images and installations, Coralina’s #multisensory works illuminate neon syncretism vibrating in our native narratives. Her collaborative #photographs from the Mama Spa Botanica workshop are created by, of and for full spectrum LGBTQIA+BIPOC & immigrant biological or biographical families to transgress the texture and complexion of American mythology. Working in collaboration with her neighbors, doulas, botanicas, urban farmers, policy leaders, Santeras, healers and historians, Coralina’s lens-based practice is a culmination of direct action organizing to honor the legacy of diasporic matriarchs preserving plantology wisdom before plantation labor systems and beyond their internalized, Castas stigmas. ⁠ •⁠ The YoungArts Baxter St Residency partnership is a unique opportunity for New York City-based YoungArts award winners working in the field of photography and video to gain experience and visibility, and build a community for their first solo exhibition at Baxter St. The opportunity includes a financial subsidy to create a body of work and produce a solo show in the Baxter St gallery as well as access to the Baxter St’s digital workspace, studio resources, and the Baxter St Art Advisory Committee.⁠ •⁠ For more information about Rodriguez-Meyer’s work visit the link in our bio and stay tuned for more updates about her upcoming exhibition.⁠ •⁠ Image credit: Coralina Rodriguez-Meyer by Matthew Capowski (fb)

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