Ronne Hartfield

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Ronne Hartfield
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Ronne Hartfield
Born
Ronola Rone

(1936-03-17) March 17, 1936 (age 89)
Chicago, Illinois, US
Alma mater University of Chicago
SpouseRobert Hartfield
Children4

Ronne Hartfield (born March 17, 1936) is an American author, essayist, and museum-education consultant.

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Early life and education

Ronne Hartfield was born on March 17, 1936, to John Drayton Rone and Thelma Shepherd (née Day) in Chicago, Illinois. [1] She attended Wendell Phillips High School in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.

Hartfield earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1955 and a Master of Arts in Theology and Literature in 1986, both from the University of Chicago. [2] [3]

Career

Hartfield's first job after college was with Science Research Associates as an editorial assistant. [4] Later on she started to do public relations work for the Chicago Children's Choir. She was Project Director of Urban Gateways: The Centre for Arts in Education, a Chicago-based arts and education non-profit organization. [5]

From 1974-1981, Hartfield was the Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of comparative literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [6] She also taught at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, Chicago. [4]

In 1981, she returned to Urban Gateways as Executive Director. [4]

From 1991-1999, Hartfield was member of the Woman's Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago. [7] [4] In 1994, she helped establish the Leadership Advisory Committee, [8] which aims to engage African Americans in the life of the institution and promotes diversity. [9] Hartfield also worked as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. [10]

Hartfield’s memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family [11] , examines race and identity through the story of her mother, Day Shepherd. [12] Another Way Home received a review in the Chicago Tribune. [13] [3]

After her early retirement from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, Hartfield was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School (2001–2002), where her research focused on intersections of art and religion in public life. [3] [7]

Hartfield later worked as an international consultant with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services and led cultural exchange projects in Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan. [3]

In 2016, Hartfield participated in the Enhancing Life Project at the University of Chicago, publishing essays on the role of the arts in enhancing human flourishing. [14]

Publications

In addition to her memoir Another Way Home (2004), Hartfield contributed entries to the Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004) and essays in Stewards of the Sacred (2004). She also presented research on art and spirituality in international venues such as the Eranos Yearbook in Switzerland. [3]

Honors and awards

Hartfield received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Women’s Caucus for the Arts [15] and the Sor Juana Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts from the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. [3]

In 2001, she was the inaugural recipient of the Jessie Woods Arts Champion Award from Urban Gateways. [3]

Personal

Hartfield is married to mathematician Robert Hartfield. [6] They have four daughters. [16]

Selected service on boards and committees

Selected publications

Honors and awards

References

  1. 1 2 Hartfield, Ronne (2004). Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0226318219.
  2. ↑ The History Makers, Ronne Hartfield Biography, July 3, 2002, , April 3, 2012
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Hartfield, Ronne (1936–)". Encyclopedia.com. Gale. Retrieved August 22, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Gilfoyle, Timothy J. (2007). Architects of Culture: Interviews with Ronne Hartfield and Helmut Jahn (Summer 2007 ed.). pp. 64–80.
  5. ↑ "Honorees: Ronne Hartfield". Urban Gateways. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
  6. 1 2 Tribune, Chicago (May 12, 1991). "A MATTER OF TIMING". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 18, 2025.
  7. 1 2 "University of Chicago Press – Ronne Hartfield". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved August 28, 2025.
  8. ↑ Valentine, Victoria L. (April 22, 2021). "Culture Talk: Long-Serving Museum Trustee Denise Gardner on Her Historic Election as Next Board Chair of Art Institute of Chicago". Culture Type. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Leadership Advisory Committee". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  10. ↑ Graham, Carol (September 11, 1998). "Hartfield first speaker in McKenzie lecture series". Grand Forks Herald. p. 17. Retrieved June 19, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Hartfield, Ronne (2005). Another Way Home The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0226318233.
  12. ↑ Acosta, Roberto (February 8, 2008). "Book fair spotlights author's 'tangled' family history". The Kalamazoo Gazette. pp.  C1 C2 . Retrieved June 19, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ Kephart, Beth (December 5, 2004). "An intelligent, full-hearted memoir of a mixed-race Chicago family". Chicago Tribune. pp.  14-1 14-4 . Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  14. 1 2 "Enhancing Life Project". enhancinglife.uchicago.edu. Retrieved October 26, 2025.
  15. 1 2 "Past Honorees | Women's Caucus for Art". National Women's Caucus for the Arts. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
  16. ↑ "Mother's Footsteps". Chicago Tribune. April 10, 1988. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Curating Team". The American Writers Museum. Retrieved July 12, 2025.
  18. ↑ "Ronne Hartfield". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
  19. ↑ "RISD President and Leadership | RISD". www.risd.edu. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
  20. 1 2 "Ronne Hartfield's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
  21. ↑ "Ronne Hartfield". The Chicago Network. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
  22. ↑ Columbia College Chicago (2012). "Demo 16" (PDF). Columbia College Chicago. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  23. ↑ Hartfield, Ronne (1995). "Turning the Museum inside Out New Connections between Art, History, and Culture". Art Education (Reston). 25– via JSTOR Arts and Sciences IV.
  24. ↑ Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green. University of South Carolina Press. May 22, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1169bf1.6. ISBN   978-1-64336-167-3. JSTOR   j.ctv1169bf1.
  25. ↑ "Meet the Art for All Honorees!". Urban Gateways. Retrieved July 17, 2025.
  26. ↑ "Divinity School hosts 21 fellows, visiting scholars". Harvard Gazette. September 20, 2001. Retrieved May 26, 2025.
  27. ↑ "RF Annual Report - 2000" (PDF). Rockefeller Foundation. p. 106. Retrieved October 19, 2025.
  28. ↑ "Ronne Hartfield". Urban Gateways. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
  29. ↑ "Past Recipients of alumni awards". University of Chicago. Retrieved October 19, 2025.
  30. ↑ Lori Rotenberk, Chicago Sun Times, January 9, 1994, April 4, 2012
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