The board of trustee’s of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has named a new chairman to replace Gerald Lee Morosco. The new leader is Fred Stratton, chairman emeritus of Wisconsin-based Briggs & Stratton. Morosco will remain on the board. two new public trustees were also elected:
Ronne Hartfield, noted Chicago author, poet and internationally recognized expert in arts and multicultural education; and Donald Fairweather, of Laguna Beach, Calif., retired president of WATG North America. In addition, Minerva Montooth of Spring Green, Wis., a member of the Taliesin Fellowship residential community of artists and scholars, retired from the board, having served since 2000.
Mr. Stratton, a member of the board since 2005, is also chair of Taliesin Preservation, Inc, the entity charges with protecting and restoring Wright’s Wisconsin home.
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Ms. Hartfield was the former endowed executive director for museum education at The Art Institute of Chicago. A Rockefeller Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University, she also was the executive director of Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education, then the largest private arts and education organization in the United States and winner of the Presidential Medal for the Arts. She wrote the biographical memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. Fairweather was a student at Taliesin, now known as the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, from 1948-1952, when Mr. Wright was alive. He worked with several architectural firms in the San Francisco area before joining WATG, where he designed hotels and resort hotels worldwide. He was one of the founders and a board member of Taliesin Fellows, the school’s alumni organization.