E Carmen Ramos Author & Editor

Author and curator E. Carmen Ramos is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's curator of Latino art. She has organised numerous shows, including "BLACKOUT: A Centennial Commission by Paul Henry Ramirez (2010), a site-specific exhibition at The Newark Museum and Cut, Build and Weld: Process in Works by Chakaia Booker (2010) at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit." Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, PhD, the "grandfather" of this subject, and formerly associate director for creativity and culture at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, has written and published extensively on US/Latino cultural issues.