The 2021 cover art for The Science of Life appeared on a wall of glittering images, and Baxter thanked the museum "for this recognition"
Glitzer's wall of glittering images at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 2025. Photo: Dr. Raven Baxter on Bluesky
Glitzer, the first museum exhibition devoted to glitter, showed the cover art for Dr. Raven Baxter's podcast The Science of Life. The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg in Germany ran the exhibition from Feb. 28 to Oct. 26, 2025.
The museum called Glitzer the first exhibition anywhere dedicated to the material, according to its listing on Art Mile Hamburg. It presented glitter as a means of empowerment and self-determination, in protest, performance and pop culture. Curators Nina Lucia Groß and Dr. Julia Meer brought together about 40 international works in six chapters, designboom reported. They included a glittering teen bedroom by Hamburg artist Jenny Schäfer and skateboards by Mickalene Thomas. GIFs by Molly Soda and a stage outfit worn by Bill Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel were also on view. In June 2025 the museum added Puff Out, an installation of 300 square meters of fuchsia glitter by the Turkish-Belgian duo :mentalKLINIK.
The Science of Life cover art in Glitzer. Photo: Dr. Raven Baxter on Bluesky
Baxter's 2021 cover art for The Science of Life appeared on the exhibition's wall of glittering images, each labeled with its year. The podcast covers the intersection of the technical and social sciences.
"I'm in a museum exhibit about GLITTER in HAMBURG, GERMANY!!!" Baxter wrote on Bluesky on April 1, 2025. "Those who've been following me for a long time know my fight to make space in STEM to be unapologetically YOU." She thanked the museum "for this recognition."
Baxter has told audiences about her first research poster, which was hot pink, with glitter, feathers and rhinestones. Her advisor told her to make a plain version or skip the symposium, and she took the pink one. She shared the story when she opened Princeton's Amplifying Voices Distinguished Lecture Series in 2022. A year earlier she gave the keynote Unapologetically You in STEM at the University of Minnesota.
After Hamburg, Glitzer traveled to the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, where it ran from Nov. 28, 2025, to May 17, 2026.
Cohort Sistas presented Dr. Raven Baxter with its Living Legacy Award and heard her keynote at the doctoral support network's fifth anniversary gala in Washington on March 7, 2026.
The Creative Collective NYC named Dr. Raven Baxter to its 2025 Creative Class, a list of 63 Black culture-shifters revealed by Essence on Feb. 3, 2025.
The Williamsville Education Foundation inducted Dr. Raven Baxter, a 2010 graduate of Williamsville North High School, into the Williamsville Wall of Fame on Nov. 8, 2024.
