Puerto Rican Curator, María Elena Ortiz, was selected as the winner of the 2014 Curatorial Research Fellowship to Travel to Central America and the Caribbean, organized by the Fundación Cisneros-Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC). Ortiz was selected out of 66 candidates from 23 countries by a jury that, for this third edition of the event, consisted of Mariangela Méndez, Independent Colombian Curator; Federico Herrero, Costa Rican artist; and María del Carmen Carrión, Associate Director of Public Programs & Research of the ICI. The curatorial project that earned Ortiz the award will focus on research centered on video art and filmmaking practices developed in the Caribbean countries of Aruba, The Bahamas, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago. The length of the stay may last from three weeks to three months, and it will be executed between May and November of 2014. María Elena Ortiz currently works as Curatorial Assistant of the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and was previously Curator of Contemporary Art at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, in Mexico City. Ortiz earned an MA in Curatorial Practices from the California College of the Arts (2010), and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Houston University (2006), with a major in Art History. Her Master's Degree Thesis centered on the analysis of the curatorial model presented in the Fifth Havana Biennial, Art, Society and Reflection.