Josephine Ramirez

As Executive Vice President of The Music Center Arts, Josephine Ramirez is responsible for ensuring both excellence and impact for the artistic presentations and productions curated by The Music Center. She contributes an extensive understanding of arts engagement that fosters greater relevance and access, not only through program production and presentation, but also as a central organizational commitment. Ramirez supervises The Music Center’s artistic presentations and productions, public programming, arts education, government relations and work in programming and operating Grand Park. As the former arts program director at The James Irvine Foundation, she provided principal leadership for the then largest funder of the arts in California, awarding an average of $18 million throughout the state. She received her undergraduate degree in theatre from the University of Texas and her master’s degree in child drama from the University of Washington. She was awarded a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2003, which supported her investigation of informal, nonprofessional art making and its relationship to individual and community vitality.