Founder
Robert Foote Shannon, Architect
Founder of the foundation in 1995, architect and GC of the buildings, designer of the landscape, and organizer of the foundation’s programs. BA Yale University cum laude, and M.Arch Yale University, Alpha Rho Chi Medal. He also painted.
Advisor
Lawrence Linder, Architect
Architect, artist and photographer, currently working on a sustainability project called “Density Bump”.
Executive Director
Matt Brader, ArtistCurator, program development, construction, maintence
Driector, Secretary and Treasurer
Steven Fellows, Master Gardener
Steven in charge of the maintenance and innovations required to keep our magnificent gardens and landscape.
Advisor
Jim Jackson, Artist
MFA Pratt Institute, NYC; recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Grants; author and illustrator of "Seeing Yourself See;" former consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; college educator and exhibition designer. Drawn to a wide variety of materials and techniques, environmental and community arts issues.
Advisor
Laurentiu Traineanu, IT
From Romania to the USA in 1984, studied mechanical engineering at the Polytechnical Institute of Bucharest, and a self taught IT specialist. Created a complete mathematical Model of a Gear Train Transmission at the beginning of his career and continued with writing and using his own CAD software while working for Fellows Corporation in Springfield, Vermont, till its closing. Worked as a self employed IT consultant since 1989 and he has been an IT consultant to the Foundation since its inception. An entrepreneur in many other area businesses.