Meet the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of the Saltonstall Foundation is made up of artists and writers from the Ithaca area. Each one brings a passion for the arts and is committed to keeping Connie's dream alive and maintaining the mission of the foundation.
William Benson, President, Fine Artist, Portraitist
Bill Benson is a foremost, nationally known portraitist, whose work has been shown around the country and across Europe. His passion for the arts and his personally knowing what it is like to make a living as an artist in 20th-21st century America, brings an inate understanding of what the Foundation is striving to do.
Brad Edmondson, Vice President, Writer
Kathy Durland Dewart, Secretary, Founding Member
In 1994 Kathy Dewart, Connie Saltonstall, and Michael May, Connie's Lawyer, sat down to begin the conversation that would realize Connie's dream, and the spark that would become the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts was ignited. Kathy's commitment to that dream has not flagged in the passing years. She works as hard and diligently now as she did then.
Carol Minton Morris, Treasurer, Artist
Carol Minton Morris is Director of Marketing and Communications for DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org), and served as the Communications Director for the National Science Digital Library (http://NSDL.org), 2000-2009, and for Fedora Commons (http://Fedora-commons.org) 2007-2009. She is a research associate in the Digital Libraries group in Cornell Information Science. Her interests are informed by her background in publishing and the visual arts and include community development around collaborative communications systems, publications and tools for distributed content creation. Follow her on twitter: http://twitter.com/mintonmorris; http://twitter.com/DuraSpace and; http://twitter.com/FedoraRepo.
Mary Gilliland, Writer, Poet
Barry Perlus, Photographer, Cornell University Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Barry Perlus has been on the Board of Directors of the Saltonstall foundation since 2008. Although the demands on his time are many, he manages to give the Foundation the benefit of his careful thought and attention to the issues at hand. Of his professional life, Barry says, "My artistic practice employs photography and digital imaging, with a keen interest in observation and interpretation. My work often engages architectural and landscape subjects, using elements of scale, perspective, light, color, and abstraction to create new interpretations".
Alice Saltonstall, Musician, Artist