Joan Applebaum February 2024
Joan Applebaum is a Visual Arts Instructor and an active professional artist who has exhibited her award winning work throughout New York State. In 2018 she moved to the coastal town of Lewes, Delaware which has opened a new world of artistic inspiration. Joan maintains a studio in her home in Lewes and at her camp in the Indian River Lakes in Northern New York and an active teaching and exhibiting schedule throughout the year. She holds memberships in several art organizations and is currently serving as the National Art Chair for the National League of American Pen Women (www.nlapw.org).
Susan Berry March 2024
Susan Berry of Jagged Glass is a seasonal resident of the
1000 Islands and has been a glass artist for over 40 years. Her love of glass began with a year-long
study in stained glass and later glass fusing and lampworking. Susan teaches glass mosaic and stained glass
at the Thousand Islands Art Center in the summer months and is a teacher of
glass in Bonita Springs, Florida in the winter.
She was the first- place recipient of the Catherine Johnson Award in
2022 for Along the River’s Edge and displays some of her work at her studio in
Clayton, NY.
Andrew Kane April 2024
Andrew had a successful career in banking for many years. Upon retirement twelve years ago, he was finally able to put all of his effort into his real love, photography. His love for photography started at a young age and he continues to strive for the “perfect photograph.” Andy considers himself a “River Rat” growing up on the St. Lawrence River in the summers and as a child of parents that met at the river and later married. The river offers the perfect venue for his landscape and wildlife photography capturing the beauty of the area. He captures this beauty from the sky as well as the land with the use of drone photography and DSLR photography. In 2021, he published a high- quality coffee table book, “My Love of The River”, which is made up of over 30 aerial photos of the Thousand Islands.
Andrew’s motto is “Photography is My Passion, Photography is Art, Photography is Life. ”
Kathleen Morris May 2024
It could be a long story, but the short version is that my pottery career has been a pretty circuitous route.
I started working with clay as an undergraduate in the early 70’s. I studied for a short time at Tuscarora Pottery School, Tuscarora , Nevada. For a few years, I did some art fairs and was happy to sell those early pieces. Back then I started teaching pottery and photography in a private school and became fascinated with the movement at the time in alternative education. I did less and less pottery and became more and more involved in changing schooling.
After what seems now like too many years in education and schooling, I’m happy to back where I started – sitting at a pottery wheel and making functional – and sometimes ‘other’ functional pieces. Lately, I’m the Studio Potter at the Thousand Islands Arts Center, Clayton, New York. I taught pottery there in the early 80’s when it was the Thousand Islands Crafts School.
My home is in Alexandria Bay, New York those for the past two years I’ve taken off during the winter for New Hampshire and Boston. I don’t do this to escape the winter weather, but the winter isolation! I spend time with my daughter and son, and enjoy the opportunity to visit museums and galleries, as well as other pottery studios. My work is available at Fibonacci Art Gallery, Watertown, New York.
