Artist Directory
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Kaly is an artist that started with pencil drawing, then tole painting and oil painting. She now finds her happy place decorating dog treats with sugar-free icing. She was born in Montreal and moved to Akwesasne 25 years ago.
Katie Schuler is an art educator, woodworker and owner of Schuler Woodworks in Potsdam, NY.
In her thirteen years of teaching, Katie has had a variety of experiences and the opportunity to teach students at every grade level. She finds immense joy in the ingenuity of students at every age level and works to facilitate a safe space for them to continue their creative work.
As a woodworker, she has been creating pieces for over a decade. Her hope is to share her love for woodworking with others through custom furniture, artworks, jewelry and functional household items. When creating larger woodworks, she saves each small piece not used and repurposes it to give it new life. Conservation of materials is integral in every decision she makes.
Kelley Martin is a writer, arts leader, and community strategist whose work bridges traditional music, dance, writing, and cultural engagement. With more than two decades of experience across the Mid Atlantic and Appalachian regions, she has curated, promoted, and produced hundreds of events—from intimate youth workshops to large scale festivals featuring national artists such as Béla Fleck, Altan, Mary Black, and Dr. Ralph Stanley presented at institutions including the North Carolina Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of History, and North Carolina State University.
Kelley’s artistic practice is rooted in cultural preservation and creative innovation. As a writer, she explores her upbringing in rural West Virginia and the ways that leaving—and returning to—remote landscapes shapes identity, memory, and belonging. Now based in the Adirondack–Tug Hill region, she is committed to building an arts ecosystem where collaboration, mutual support, and regional storytelling thrive. This vision led her to found the Tug Hill Artist Network, a collaborative hub for artists working across the North Country.Her passion for inclusive, intergenerational arts experiences has guided her work in education and community programming. As Education Director at the Arts Centre in Martinsburg, West Virginia, she developed puppetry, folklore, and dance programs for children ages 6–12. She has partnered with Johns Hopkins University, North Carolina State University, and the Maryland State Department of Education to design curriculum, lead professional development, and build digital platforms that support arts learning and early childhood development.
Kelley’s leadership in community outreach includes rebranding festivals, coordinating Main Street initiatives for the City of Westminster, Maryland, and developing youth poetry and writing programs for at risk teens in Durham, North Carolina. She has served as a board member, grant writer, and communications strategist for organizations such as Carolina Wren Press, Carolina Ballet, and the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. A skilled web designer and editor, she has led cross functional teams to build accessible, content rich educational websites for the Maryland State Department of Education.
Across every role, Kelley champions the transformative power of the arts—celebrating heritage, amplifying diverse voices, and cultivating vibrant, connected communities through creative collaboration.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore, an MA in English from North Carolina State University, and a BA in Liberal Arts/Journalism from St. Andrews University.
For more information, visit the Tug Hill Artist Network.
Lisa studied Advertising Design at Casanova College and Art Education at SUNY Potsdam. She is a warm glass and collage/mixed media artist. She teaches area classes on gelli printing and collage making. She also shows and sells her art. Hopefully soon she will have her studio open to the public.
Massena Central Art Teacher and SLC Arts board member
Visual Artist
Watercolor artist for the 20 years, and teaching class when we are free from corona pandemic.My painting is mainly realism, and some impressionistic. I started experimenting SUMIE (Japanese watercolor) lately.
Nancey Brackett owned a horse farm for thirty-three years in Canton, NY., and upon retiring turned to another passion. Her grandmother was a gifted silversmith and passed on the love of silver, and the desire to be creative. While on the farm, Nancey took some silver work classes, and started to play with bezel setting stones.
After selling the farm, a three-week intensive jewelry class at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico introduced her to the art of channel inlay, and cutting her own stones. She returned to New York and set up My Corner Studio. Nancey has been back to Ghost Ranch for anadvanced course, and spends time in Tucson at a Gem and Lapidary Club learning new techniques. She attends the Tucson International Gem show, largest in the world, each year to buy stones and slabs for inlay.
Check out her website, mycornerstudiosilver.com, find her at local art shows, and mycornerstudio on Facebook and Instagram. The studio is open by appointment, and fall studio tour.
Nathan is a self-taught potter who began working with clay in 2021. He enjoys throwing on the wheel and focused early on learning to throw larger portions of clay to create bigger forms. While living on Wilson Hill Island in Massena, he founded Seaway Ceramics, inspired by his location on the St. Lawrence River, so that he could begin selling the pots he had made.
Nathan now lives in Brusthon, NY, where he has transformed a former horse barn into a functional pottery studio. In addition to throwing on the wheel, Nathan also enjoys hand-building and plays with sculpture. He makes serving trays, mugs, and vases, which he decorates using weeds plucked from the fields behind his barn. Nathan works primarily with stoneware, which he fires in his electric kiln, but also enjoys experimenting with other clays and firing techniques.
Peter has a long and rich history in pottery making after studying with master potters Vivika and Otto Heino, and earning an MFA from Penn State. In the 1980s he built a 2 chambered wood fired kiln in New Hampshire, as well as teaching at two colleges. In the 1990s he dug local clay out of his backyard in Baltimore to make sculptural work. He now uses Adirondack rock dust as a glaze ingredient in his original glaze recipes.