Adele Chatfield-Taylor (born January 29, 1945) is an American arts administrator. She served as president and CEO of the American Academy in Rome from 1988 to 2013.
She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1978-1979 and executive director of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation from 1980 to 1984. From 1984 to 1988, she was director of the Design Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts, where she helped establish the Mayors' Institute on City Design in 1986.[2]
She was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 1983–1984, conducting a comparative analysis of American and Italian preservation practices.[3] Appointed president of the American Academy in 1988, Chatfield-Taylor oversaw the rehabilitation of its historic buildings and grounds and led a highly successful fundraising campaign to secure the institution's solvency.[4]
In 2018, the Saint Nicholas Society awarded her the Medal of Merit recognizing her outstanding ability and service to the City of New York.[citation needed]
Personal
Adele Chatfield-Taylor is married to the playwright John Guare.