Initially working as a banker, Verina Baxter began to create stone sculpture in the early 1990s, after taking an mpactful sculpture class at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg. The bulk of her work was created between 1990 and 2015, and incorporates stone, steel and mix-media artwork. Baxter's work is characterized by duality and dichotomy: natural and machined, light and heavy, soft and hard. Carefully polished angles are contrasted with raw stone edges, and in later series, metallic girders and posts.

Along with her prolific practice, Baxter was instrumental in the development of the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, and worked with many local Chattanoogan artists and organizations to establish the robust arts community that we have today.

Cited from Verina Baxter at the Hunter Museum of American Art, Dec. 2, 2016-Jan. 22, 2017