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October 22, 2004
  Articles on this page: • Laurie Norton Moffatt Selected as 2004-2005 Woman of Achievement
Laurie Norton Moffatt Selected as 2004-2005 Woman of Achievement Close your eyes. Open up your mind and envision a list of women who you consider to be important leaders. Certainly modern day women such as Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton, Sandra Day O'Connor, Condoleezza Rice, and Maya Angelou may appear on a national level. However, think about a list of women that have had a profound impact on Berkshire County. At the top of your list should be Laurie Norton Moffatt, director and chief executive officer of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge. She has taken the museum to new heights, contributing enormously to the county’s economy. This is one of the many reasons why Laurie Norton Moffatt has been selected as the 2004-2005 Woman of Achievement by Berkshire Business and Professional Women. The annual award recognizes a Berkshire County woman for her considerable achievements in a career and for outstanding contributions to her community. Laurie was selected for her exceptional vision, her sense of pride and commitment to her community and for her unfailing dedication to promoting women and the issues that are important to them. Nearly Two Decades of Leadership Laurie Norton Moffatt has served as director and CEO of the Norman Rockwell Museum since 1986. She began her career with the Museum during college, and was the Museum's first curator from 1981 to 1986. She authored the encyclopedic compendium, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue and organized numerous exhibits. She has published various catalogue essays on Norman Rockwell and given numerous lectures on Rockwell to national and international audiences. Ms. Norton Moffatt oversaw the $9.2 million expansion of the Norman Rockwell Museum, which opened its new complex in 1993. She organized the architectural competition, which resulted in the selection of Robert A.M. Stern, to design the new gallery building and structured the Museum's financing plan, including the successful completion of the Museum's $5 million national capital campaign. Ms. Norton Moffatt also coordinated the move of Norman Rockwell's studio building and contents to the Museum's new site. In recent years, Ms. Norton Moffatt has broadened the vision of the Museum beyond its gallery walls. In 1998, the Museum completed a six-month traveling exhibition in Japan. In November of 1999, the Norman Rockwell Museum and the High Museum of Art launched a major national exhibition, Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People. In May 2004, the Norman Rockwell Museum collaborated with the Corcoran Gallery of Art to lend Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings to share with the nation on the occasion of the National WWII Memorial dedication in Washington, D.C. Recently, Rockwell’s famous self-portrait was honored as part of Me! Self-portraits of the 20th Century, hosted by the Musee du Luxembourg in Paris and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. She attended the first international symposium on single artist museums at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1991 and has been a leader in establishing a forum for single artist museums in the United States. She has been a speaker and panel member for numerous professional presentations on museum issues and has served as consultant to museums and nonprofit organizations. Ms. Norton Moffatt is a member of the American Association of Museums, where she serves as a MAP and Accreditation reviewer, the Association of Art Museum Directors, the New England Museum Association, and The National Trust for Historic Preservation. An art history graduate of Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, she also studied art history at Williams College. Ms. Norton Moffatt received her certificate in Museum Management from The Museum Management Institute of the American Federation of the Arts at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her master's degree in business administration at The Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate of fine arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Ms. Norton Moffatt is a trustee of the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, a member of Olana's National Advisory Committee, a corporator of The Berkshire Museum and Berkshire Bank, Berkshire Visitors Bureau Arts CEO Program Committee, and Governor Romney's Berkshire Regional Competitiveness Council. She lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with her husband Craig, and daughter Leigh. Berkshire Business and Professional Women (BBPW) have been honoring local women since 1965 and past award recipients include Eugenie Sills, Anne Pasko, Barabara Viniar, Tina Packer, Esther Quinn and Ruth Bass. Proceeds from the dinner event directly benefit career advancement scholarships, which are awarded by BBPW to Berkshire County women annually. The goals of BBPW are to provide professional and personal development programs and to assist in building a strong connection of working women from diverse fields. Dinner meetings, held the first Monday of each month, offer dynamic networking opportunities. If you are interested in learning more about BBPW, please call Stephanie French, president-elect, at (413) 499-4000 ext. 18.  RETURN TO TOP |
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