E. Carmen Ramos is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s deputy chief curator and curator of Latino art; she joined the museum’s staff in 2010. Since then, she has dramatically expanded the museum’s pioneering collection of Latino art with an eye toward capturing the broad aesthetic and regional range of the field. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Latino, Latin American and African American art.

Karen Mary Davalos, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is an independent curator and an author of three books about Chicana/o art. She serves on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics and Art, the oldest Chicana/o – Latina/o arts organization in the Southern California. She has contributed to the Getty Foundation initiative, Pacific Standard Time I and II. In 2012 she received the President’s Award for Art and Activism from the Women’s Cauc...