YoungArts Residency
YoungArts and Baxter St have partnered to offer a two-month residency at Baxter St to one YoungArts alumna/us per year. All YoungArts alumni artists currently residing in New York City who are working in photography or lens-based art are eligible to apply. This residency offers a lens-based artist much-needed workspace in New York City as well as a solo exhibition at the end of the residency. Residents gain hands-on experience, work closely with Baxter St advisors, and are counseled by specialists in their field of study.
We are thrilled to announce Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, the 2025 YoungArts Baxter St Residency recipient. 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.
Everglades swamp born, Caribbean Ital & Tinkuy raised Coralina Rodriguez Meyer is a mixed-race, indigenous Andean American, Brooklyn and Miami based artist. Coralina is a Quipucamayoc (culture-keeper) working across archives, architecture, advocacy and academia to form moving images. Spanning 2 decades, Coralina has collaborated with climate and reproductive justice leaders to strengthen civic agency in barrios across diasporas, genders and generations. Their Mama Spa Botanica project 2007-Present is a collaborative full spectrum workshop restoring dignity and divinity to melanated LGBTQIA+ families on the front lines of conflicting climate and reproductive health crisis in America. Coralina is director of Abra Studio urban design, a founding board member of Menstrual Market, Retreet America and ¡Solar Libre! Coralina studied painting at MICA, anthropology at Hopkins, completed an architecture BFA at Parsons and MFA at Hunter CUNY. Coralina has taught at FIU, Pratt and Parsons. She was a resident of the Bronx Museum AIM, Ankhlave Arts Governors Island and Miami Dade College. She was a research fellow at Museo de Sitio Machu Picchu, Universitat der Kunst Berlin, Washington DC NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute and University of Maryland. Their work was featured in the NY Times, the Guardian, London Review of Books, Art News and Univision. Their recent solo exhibitions at Thomas Jefferson University, Project Row Houses, Artists Alliance NYC, Bronx River Art Center and University of Maryland were reviewed in the Washington Post and Hyperallergic. Coralina’s work has been featured at Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, Perez Art Museum, Smithsonian, CAC New Orleans and Colonial FL Cultural Heritage Museum.
YoungArts was established in 1981 by Lin and Ted Arison to identify exceptional young artists, amplify their potential, and invest in their lifelong creative freedom. YoungArts provides space, funding, mentorship, professional development and community throughout artists’ careers. Entrance into this prestigious organization starts with a highly competitive application for talented artists ages 15–18, or grades 10–12, in the United States that is judged by esteemed discipline-specific panels of artists through a rigorous blind adjudication process. For more information, visit youngarts.org
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York operates as a 501(c)3 organization. Its programming and exhibitions are made possible through the generosity of the Mellon Foundation; 7G Foundation; Arison Arts Foundation; Ruth Foundation for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; Joy of Giving Something, Inc.; Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; Howard and Sarah D. Solomon Foundation; Agnes Gund; Steven Amedee Fine Custom Framing; Fujifilm of North America; and Awagami Factory.