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Introduction
Ronne Hartfield (born Ronola Rone) is an author, essayist, international museum consultant, and former executive director at The Art Institute of Chicago and Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education. She is a co-chair of the Harvard University Arts Education Council and a Research Associate at Claremont Graduate University School of Religion. In 2004, Ms. Hartfield published Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family to critical acclaim. Ronne Hartfield has served on the board of directors at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Taliesin, Scottsdale, AZ and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. She is an internationally recognized expert in arts education and multicultural education. Ronne is married to Robert Hartfield, a mathematician at the University of Chicago, with whom she has four daughters.

Early life and education
Ronne Hartfield was born on March 17, 1936 to parents John Drayton Rone Sr and Thelma (Day) Shepherd,. a factory- worker and a homemaker. Her parents emigrated separately from Louisiana to Chicago during the “first wave” of the Great Migration, between 1918 and 1920. Hartfield and her four siblings all attended the landmark Wendell Phillips High School and local universities.

Ronne attended the University of Chicago for both her undergraduate and master’s degree. While obtaining her BA in History (1955), Ronne worked with Honors preceptorial advisor Charles G. Bell. Advisors for her M.A. in Theology and Literature included Langdon Gilkey, Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Yu.

She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by DePaul University in 2006.

Early Career
From 1974 to 1981, Hartfield served as the Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of the Comparative Literature at the School at the Art Institute of Chicago. During this time, Hartfield developed national and international exchange study opportunities and fellowships for SAIC students. In 1981, Hartfield became the Executive Director for Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education, a Chicago based, not-for-profit, arts and education organization which was at the time the largest in the country. Urban Gateways won the coveted Presidential Medal for the Arts, as well as the Governor's Award for the most outstanding arts organization in Illinois. In 1991, Hartfield became the Woman’s Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education at The Art Institute of Chicago where she was responsible for all facets of interpretation in the museum, including lectures, film, videos and services to schools and families. Hartfield was instrumental in forming the Leadership Advisory Committee (1994). The LAC continues to promote and sustain diversity within the AIC, and provides counsel, new perspectives and support to the museum for the advancement and engagement of African Americans in the life of the institution. From 1999 to the present, Hartfield has been an independent consultant in museum education and planning. Her clients have included: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Rubin Museum of Tibetan Art, New York City; Museum of Biblical Art, New York City; Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions; National Endowment for the Arts Newberry Library as well as museums in Sao Paolo, London and Kyoto.

Authorial Career
Hartfield’s full-length memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family (University of Chicago Press, 2004) was a seminal book in the literature of race in America. A biographical memoir, Another Way Home traces the story of Hartfield’s mother, Day Shepherd, through her migration to the city of Chicago and her experiences as a mixed-race American. Hartfield draws on her mother’s recollections and genealogical research to trace her family roots from a deep-South plantation to a close-knit urban middle-class family. Hartfield’s book chronicles crucial moments in African American history, from the race riots of 1919 and the Great Depression to the murder of Emmett Till and the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement. Named by the Chicago Tribune as one of the ten best non-fiction books of 2004, Another Way Home has met with critical acclaim, including praise from Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman, Yale Professor Robert B. Stepto, Harvard’s Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, and poet Nikki Giovanni.

Hartfield is currently completing a new manuscript, which traces the wide-ranging visual depictions of home by African American artists. In this work, Hartfield examines images of direct experience of the American South in contrast with memories of longing for Africa as primordial homeland.

Service on Boards and Committees

 * Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin, Scottsdale, AZ
 * Harvard University Graduate Division of Arts Education
 * University of Chicago Women’s Board
 * American Writers Museum
 * Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago
 * Rhode Island School of Design
 * Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (Chicago)
 * Columbia College Chicago
 * International Sculpture Center (New York City)
 * National Museum of Women in the Arts Illinois Chapter

Selected Publications
2007  Architects of Culture. Interview with Tim Gilfoyle in Chicago History, the Magazine of the Chicago History Museum. Summer issue 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) 2004  Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. Biographical Memoir (University of Chicago Press) 2004  Musings on Barbarous Beauty. Fellowship conference proceedings (Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions) 2004  Seeing and Silence: Sacred Encounter in Museum Exhibition. Essay in Stewards of the Sacred (American Association of Museums) 2004  The Encyclopedia of Chicago History (University of Chicago Press). Two entries 2001  Encountering Art/Different Facets of the Esthetic Experience. Miho Museum, Kyoto. Essay (Overlook Press NY) 2001  A Permanence of Stone and Language in America's Courtyard. Catalog essay: Perez and Milan. (Ripasa, Sao Paolo) 1998  The New Jersey State Museum, African American Fine Arts Collection Catalog, Trenton. Five essays 1996  The Chicago Years: Gathering Light in the Gray City.Essay in Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green (University of South Carolina Press) 1995  The Artist in Society: Afterword. Essay in New Art Examiner, Summer 1995  Turning the Museum Inside Out. Essay in The Journal of Arts Education, September 1995   Birmingham Museum of Art, Fall Catalog. Essay for museum installation by sculptor Lorenzo Pace 1994  Challenging the Context: Perception, Polity and Power. Essay in Curator: The Museum Journal, v. 37 No. 1 1993  Teaching Theater. Keynote Speech. The Journal of the American Educational Theater Association, New York 1988  An Unquiet Revolution. Essay in The Journal of Arts Management, Spring 1985  Gifts of Power/The Writings of Rebecca Jackson. Book Review in The Journal of Religion, v. 65, No. 2 April

Honors and Awards

 * Harvard University Senior Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions
 * Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship
 * DePaul University, Doctorate in Humane Letters
 * Aspen Institute 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 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
 * 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