Caite Mae Ramos (b.1991) is an interdisciplinary artist using woodworking, plants, social media, and drawing to investigate their relationship with the land. From observations of the natural world and human interactions with it, Ramos is interested in creating scenarios and objects to investigate (usually absurd) means of survival and what it takes to be alive.
Ramos is an Oglala Lakota citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation). In 2015 they graduated with high honors and a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. After graduation Ramos spent two years on the Olympic Peninsula fully immersed in the landscape and moved to Northwest Arkansas in 2017. Ramos became a Master Gardener that same year and has since been obsessed with growing plants in alternative ways in a home environment with limited access to land.
Currently Ramos is an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas and co-runs ‘The Botanical Sketchers of the Ozarks’ a monthly observational sketching group they co-founded, aiming to connect the community to the land and to learn to see through drawing.