Her plans include dinners that honor Hispanic artists, as well as creating a donor wall listing museum contributors.
It hopes one day to add concert footage and interviews with Hispanic artists.
Today, the term is typically used by Hispanic artists producing R&B or soul music.
The grants are part of a three-year, $5 million program to help museums with large collections of works by black and Hispanic artists.
What no one seemed to be noticing, she said, was what a major year this was for Hispanic artists.
Selena was the first Hispanic artist to do this.
Ramirez epitomizes the "Hispanic" artist laboring in the cultural margins, and so his presence is especially fitting.
But though there's no attempt to rewrite history, some contributors, in the effort to give Hispanic artists their due, may have rushed to the other extreme.
A lively if uneven show by 34 Hispanic artists, most relatively unknown.
This station routinely plays English language pop hits as well, and some aren't even by Hispanic artists.