Fath Davis Ruffins
Updated
30 Nov 2016
30 Nov 2016
Fath Davis Ruffins is curator of the division of home and community life at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. She is a specialist in ethnic imagery in popular culture and African-American cultural history. Ruffins has curated or consulted on several major exhibitions dealing with the African-American experience, including Tavis Smiley's America I AM exhibition and one of the permanent exhibitions at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, From Slavery to Freedom. Her most recent publication is The Paradox of Preservation: Gullah, Culture and Imagery in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art (2008). She served as a Center heritage panelist in 2009.