Esperanza Mayobre is a Brooklyn-based artist that grew up in Caracas, Venezuela. She has exhibited at the Herbert F.Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museo Eduardo Sivori Buenos Aires, the Queens Museum, The State University of New York Westchester Community College, La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao Caracas, the Bronx Museum, Hallwalls, MIT Cavs, BRIC, The Art Museum of the Americas Washington D.C., the Contemporary Museum of El Salvador, the Incheon Biennial Korea. She is a recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Smack Mellon Studio Program, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been in Artishock, Bomb,The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Creative Time Reports, Arte al Día and Art in America.

Baxter St 2023 Guest Curatorial Initiative Recipient Jenna Hamed is an artist & art worker based in Queens. She obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion and Fine Art from Eastern Michigan University,and a Master’s Degree in Arts Politics from New York University. Jenna’s background in tactile-driven practices and critical examination of art production has influenced her practice in documentation methods via image-making, poetics, archiving, and the book format. You can find some of Jenna’s image-and text-based works in small press publications such as Dada Duende Record Club Journal, Faint Line Press, Everybody Press, Newtown Literary, Koukash Review, parapraxis, Sukoon Mag, and others. You cannot find most of Jenna’s work, as she produces publications, prints and writings in limited or unique editions, distributed when, where and to whom she feels like.

Santiago Acosta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts, which he examines through the lenses of cultural studies, political economy, and environmental theory. His book manuscript, “We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom,” explores how literature and the visual arts interacted with the environmental shifts of the 1970s oil boom in Venezuela.