Ronne Hartfield

Ronne Hartfield
Ronne Hartfield
Born
Ronola Rone

(1936-03-17) 17 March 1936
Chicago, Illinois, US
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
SpouseRobert Hartfield
Children4

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

Early life and education

Ronne Hartfield was born on March 17, 1936, to John Drayton Rone and Thelma Shepherd (née Day).[1] She attended Wendell Phillips High School in Chicago. She received a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1955 and a Master of Arts in Theology and Literature in 1986 from the University of Chicago.[2]

Career

From 1974 to 1981, Hartfield served as the dean of students and assistant professor of comparative literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[3] In 1981, Hartfield became the executive director for Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education, a Chicago-based arts and education non-profit organization.[4]

In 1991, Hartfield was appointed the Woman's Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago.[5] In 1994, she helped establish the Leadership Advisory Committee,[6] which promotes and sustains diversity at the Art Institute by providing counsel and support for the advancement and engagement of African Americans in the life of the institution.[7]

Hartfeld worked as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.[8] Hartfield has also held advisory and board positions at institutions including the American Writers Museum, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and Rhode Island School of Design, and has received fellowships from the Aspen Institute and the Goethe-Institut for her work in arts and multicultural education.[9]

Hartfield’s memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family, explores race and identity through the story of her mother, Day Shepherd.[10] The book traces Shepherd’s migration to Chicago and her experiences as a mixed race American, using family recollections and genealogical research to follow their roots from a plantation economy in the South to an urban middle-class environment. The book also addresses the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the Great Depression, the murder of Emmett Till, and the early Civil Rights Movement. Another Way Home received a positive review in the Chicago Tribune.[11]

Personal

Hartfield is married to Robert Hartfield, a mathematician.[3] They have four daughters.[12]

Selected service on boards and committees

Selected publications

  • 1985 - Gifts of Power/The Writings of Rebecca Jackson. Book Review in The Journal of Religion, v. 65, No. 2 April
  • 1988 - An Unquiet Revolution. Essay in The Journal of Arts Management, Spring
  • 1993 - Teaching Theater. Keynote Speech. The Journal of the American Educational Theater Association, New York
  • 1994 - Challenging the Context: Perception, Polity and Power. Essay in Curator: The Museum Journal, v. 37 No. 1
  • 1995 - Birmingham Museum of Art, Fall Catalog. Essay for museum installation by sculptor Lorenzo Pace
  • 1995 - Turning the Museum Inside Out. Essay in The Journal of Arts Education, September[16]
  • 1995 - The Artist in Society: Afterword. Essay in New Art Examiner, Summer
  • 1996 - The Chicago Years: Gathering Light in the Gray City. Essay in Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green (University of South Carolina Press)[17]
  • 1998 - The New Jersey State Museum, African American Fine Arts Collection Catalog, Trenton. Five essays
  • 2001 - A Permanence of Stone and Language in America's Courtyard. Catalog essay: Perez and Milan. (Ripasa, São Paulo)
  • 2001 - Encountering Art/Different Facets of the Esthetic Experience. Miho Museum, Kyoto. Essay (Overlook Press NY)
  • 2004 - The Encyclopedia of Chicago History (University of Chicago Press). Two entries
  • 2004 - Seeing and Silence: Sacred Encounter in Museum Exhibition. Essay in Stewards of the Sacred (American Association of Museums)
  • 2004 - Musings on Barbarous Beauty. Fellowship conference proceedings (Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions)
  • 2004 - Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. Biographical Memoir (University of Chicago Press)[18]
  • 2006 - Laying Coping Stones in Zion: Art, the Imagination, and the Flourishing of Common Life. Essay in Criterion (University of Chicago Divinity School v.45 No. 1)
  • 2007 - Architects of Culture. Interview with Tim Gilfoyle in Chicago History, the Magazine of the Chicago History Museum. Summer issue
  • 2010 - Foreword: Catalogue for SAIC/SSCAC exhibition, Recession.
  • 2010 - Journal of Ordinary Thought, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Chicago. Introduction.
  • 2012 - Visual Echoes and Evocations: Essay in Eranos Yearbook v.70. Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln, Ticino, Italy.
  • 2013 - Manifest Grace: Art, Presence, and Healing: Catalogue Essay in Body and Soul, Museum of Art and Design: New York City
  • 2014 - Essay in Conference Publication, the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, Claremont, California
  • 2016 - The Arts Enhance Life in Excelsis: Essay, websites of The University of Chicago Enhancing Life Project and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • 2019 - Essay in The Horn Book Magazine, v. XCV No. 4, American Library Association

Honors and awards

  • Urban Gateways Inaugural Jessie Woods Arts Champion Award for Arts Advocacy[19]
  • 2001–2002 Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), Harvard Divinity School[20]
  • Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Fellowship
  • DePaul University, Doctorate in Humane Letters
  • Aspen Institute Residency Fellowships
  • Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for Distinction in Education (Chicago History Museum)
  • National Women's Caucus for the Arts, Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Hull House Women of Valor Award
  • University of Chicago Alumni Award for Public Service
  • Goethe-Institut Travel Fellowship to Germany
  • Brazil Cultural Consortium Travel Fellowship
  • Mexico/Chicago Fellowship, City of Chicago Leadership Committee
  • Institute for International Education, Women Leaders Delegation to Japan
  • YWCA Outstanding Leadership in the Arts Award
  • Congressman Sidney Yates Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts
  • Scholarship and Guidance Association Award for Exceptional Community Service
  • American Women Composers Award
  • Lawyers For the Creative Arts Award for Exceptional Contributions
  • International Women Associates, Woman Extraordinaire
  • Christopher Moore Award, Chicago Children's Choir
  • Woman of the Year, Chicago Association of Mannequins
  • Distinguished Service Award, Alpha Gamma Pi Honorary Sorority
  • Community Leadership Award, Abraham Lincoln Center
  • Professional Excellence Award, League of Black Women
  • Kizzy Award for Exceptional Achievement
  • Named One of Ten Chicagoans to Watch by The Chicago Sun-Times[21]
  • Named One of 100 Most Outstanding Chicago Women by Today's Chicago Woman
  • National Museum of Mexican Art: Sor Juana Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts
  • African American Arts Alliance of Chicago: Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Literature

References

  1. ^ 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, [1], April 3, 2012
  3. ^ a b Tribune, Chicago (1991-05-12). "A MATTER OF TIMING". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
  4. ^ "Honorees: Ronne Hartfield". Urban Gateways. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Ronne Hartfield". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  6. ^ Valentine, Victoria L. (2021-04-22). "Culture Talk: Long-Serving Museum Trustee Denise Gardner on Her Historic Election as Next Board Chair of Art Institute of Chicago". Culture Type. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  7. ^ "Leadership Advisory Committee". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  8. ^ Graham, Carol (1998-09-11). "Hartfield first speaker in McKenzie lecture series". Grand Forks Herald. p. 17. Retrieved 2025-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Enhancing Life Project". enhancinglife.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
  10. ^ Acosta, Roberto (2008-02-08). "Book fair spotlights author's 'tangled' family history". The Kalamazoo Gazette. pp. C1C2. Retrieved 2025-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Kephart, Beth (2004-12-05). "An intelligent, full-hearted memoir of a mixed-race Chicago family". Chicago Tribune. pp. 14-114-4. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
  12. ^ "Mother's Footsteps". Chicago Tribune. 1988-04-10. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  13. ^ "Curating Team". The American Writers Museum. Retrieved 2025-07-12.
  14. ^ "Enhancing Life Project". enhancinglife.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  15. ^ "RISD President and Leadership | RISD". www.risd.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green. University of South Carolina Press. 2020-05-22. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1169bf1.6. ISBN 978-1-64336-167-3.
  18. ^ Hartfield, Ronne (2004). Another way home: the tangled roots of race in one Chicago family. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-31821-9.
  19. ^ "Meet the Art for All Honorees!". Urban Gateways. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
  20. ^ "Divinity School hosts 21 fellows, visiting scholars". Harvard Gazette. 20 September 2001. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
  21. ^ Lori Rotenberk, Chicago Sun Times, January 9, 1994, [2] April 4, 2012
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