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Education:

2000

Master of Fine Art, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

1996

Bachelor of Fine Art, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York

1995

Ellen Battel Stoekel Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Awards and Honors: (selected)

2017

Grant Award
Monterey Peninsula Foundation

2016

Artist in Residence
Monterey Museum of Art

2014

California Council for the Humanities
California Stories, War Comes Home Grant

2014

Community Foundation for Monterey County
Community Impact Grant

2012

Champion of the Arts, Education
Arts Council for Monterey County

2010

Grant Recipient
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Broadband Technology Opportunity Program

2009

Audience Appreciation Award
Carpenteria Valley Animation Festival

2009

Marion Penn Community Partnership Award
Service Learning

2006

California Stories Grant
California Council for the Humanities

2005

Kodak Grant for Independent Film Production

2002

Kodak Grant for Independent Film Production

1999 - 2000

Art Fellowship
Claremont Graduate University

1996

Ethyl Cram Prize for Overall Excellence in Art
The Cooper Union

1995

Ellen Battle Stoekel Fellowship
Yale University

1992

Four year, full-tuition Scholarship
The Cooper Union
Interpretive, Curatorial and Community Projects: (selected)

2013 – present

Community Curator
Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival, CA

Curate, organize and promote all daytime programs for the festival.

2015-2017

Fort Ord Collections Project
Library of Congress and National Gallery, Washington DC

Featured nationally for the 25th anniversary of the Veterans History Project, a special collection created collaboratively with students and community members and exhibition to be held at the Smithsonian’s National Gallery Theater and the Monterey Museum of Art.

2016

Permanent Exhibition on the Monarch Life Cycle
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove, CA

Create paintings for interpretive display on Monarch habitats.

2016

Artist in Residence
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

Create a series of artworks, participatory experiences and programs to enhance contemporary exhibitions for diverse audiences.

2015

Monterey Programmer
Ambulante CA

Organized public programs for migrant and rural audiences for the international touring film festival. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation.

Solo Exhibitions: (selected)

2017

Fort Ord at the Library of Congress
Washington, DC

2017

A Land for War
National Gallery Theater, Washington, D.C.

2016

Insignia of Fort Ord
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

2015

THE WEST
Contemporary Video Art Center, Stanislaus, CA

2014

Planet Ord
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2014

Seaside’s 60th Anniversary
Walter Avery Gallery, Seaside City Hall, Seaside, CA

2014

Planet Ord
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2012

Water, CA (with Nicole Antebi)
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2011

Water, CA (with Nicole Antebi)
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Signs, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA

2011

Signs
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA

2010

Planet Ord
DMDC, Department of Defense, Monterey, CA A Film is a Burning Thing, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA

2010

A Film is a Burning Thing
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA

2009

A Film is a Burning Thing
CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (curated by Barry Schwabsky)

2008

Olive’s Backyard Concert
Link Contemporary Art, Claremont, CA

2008

Local 909er
Inlandia Institute, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA

2008

Local 909er and Secret Apocalyptic Love Diaries
The Black Box Cabaret, CSUMB, Seaside, CA

2007

The Wire 25: Secret Cinema
The Roxy, London, UK (with Jesse Stead, Curated by Mark Webber)

2007

Local 909er
Sweeney Art Museum, Riverside, CA

2007

Local 909er
Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

2004

Enid Baxter Blader’s Screening and Giant Vegetable Contest
Los Angeles Contemporary

2004

Exhibitions
Hollywood, California

2004

True Love Always
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2003

LETTER FROM THE GIRL
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas

2003

LETTER FROM THE GIRL
Cinescape at The Hideout, Austin, Texas

2002

LETTER FROM THE GIRL, MAILED AT THE GAS STATION
Location One, New York, New York (catalog)

2001

New Work
Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, California (catalog)

2001

Wise Blood
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

2000

Blind Town/Downhome Sublime
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

1998

Recall
Santa Fe International Academy of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1998

Dogs Tied to Strong Strings
Site 21/21, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Group Exhibitions and Screenings: (selected)

2014

Videotag
Thinh Studios, Hawthorne, CA (catalog)

2013

Carte De California
Kellog Museum, Pomona, CA

2013

Codex Dynamic
DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2012

Herman La Prada
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2011

The Ord
Rooftop Films, New York, NY

2011

New York Stories
Anthology of Film Archives, New York, NY

2011

Information Economy
DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, NY

2011

Atlanta Underground Film Festival
Atlanta, GA

2011

Globians International Film Festival
Berlin, Germany

2011

Psycho-Geo, Other Cinema
San Francisco, CA
Bibliograpy: (selected)

Artblock Live: Reggie Woolery interviews artist, filmmaker, musician and professor Enid Baxter Blader.” Podcast, KCET, Los Angeles. 1/1/09

Brightwell, Eric. “Celluloid Heroines: Fearless Filmmaking Females.” Amoeba Blog. 4/20/10.

Clark, Robert,”Time to Untangle Theoretical Threads,” ArtReview, June 2002. (illus.)

Duray, Dan. “The Manhattan Bridge is Going to Look Odd this Weekend.” New York Observer. 9/27/12.

Frank, Peter. “Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, April 11, p.38, 2003.

Adams, Sam,”Screenpicks” Philadelphia City Paper, August 9 – 16, 2001.

A la Mode, Brownie, “Women in the Director’s Chair,” DykeDiva, March, 2004

Allen, David, The Inland Times, “Smogdance Does it Again,” October 15, 2000.

Antebi, Nicole. “Magical Thinking and the Los Angeles Aquaduct,” Arid: A Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology. August 9, 2013.

Artblock Live: Reggie Woolery interviews artist, filmmaker, musician and professor Enid Baxter Blader.”  Podcast, KCET, Los Angeles.
http://kcet.org/local/podcasts/artsblock_live 1/1/09

Bridges, Joseph. “A Film is a Burning Place.” Real Sound Theory. 4/30/09.

Brightwell, Eric. “Celluloid Heroines: Fearless Filmmaking Females.” Amoeba Blog. 4/20/10.

Burton, Antionett and Alexandra Juhasz. “Feminist history making and Video Remains.” Jump Cut, Winter, 2006. http://www.jumpcut.org

Butin, Simon. “Water CA, The Future of Place-Based MultiMedia?” Terrain.org, 8/17/2010.

Cabrera, Marcos. “Teen Film Festival Exceed Expectations.” The Monterey Herald. 3/24/2009.

Cabrera, Marcos, “The Reel Lives of Teens: CSUMB helps kids tell their stories through film.”  The Monterey Herald, 12/9/2008.

Cabrera, Marcos. “CSUMB launches Teen Film Festival.” The Monterey Herald  11/11/2008

Clark, Robert,”Time to Untangle Theoretical Threads,” ArtReview, June 2002. (illus.)

Cooper, Jacqueline, Enid Baxter Blader. Los Angeles: Roberts and Tilton Gallery, 2001 (illus.)

Cooper, Jacqueline,”In Search of the New Bohemians: The Flight and Possible Return of Passion to the Contemporary Art World,” Side Street Projects Journal, Summer, (illus.)

Cowan, Amber, “Art: The Five Best Shows Around the Country,” The Information, supplement to The Independent. May 18, 2002, p. 13

Public Collections:

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Los Angeles, CA

Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York

Orange County Museum of Art, Irvine, California