Amy Bloom

Executive Director

abloom@saratoga-arts.org

Amy Bloom is an experienced leader in strategy, operations, marketing, and fundraising, and a long-time resident of Saratoga Springs.  Amy has worked regionally as an Executive at Planned Parenthood, Hudson Headwaters Health Network, and Alliance for Better Health.  In 2020, she and colleagues founded and grew a local primary care organization, and then led it towards acquisition by a national health care company.  For the last several years, Amy has been a management consultant solving organizational challenges and bringing about culture change in not-for-profit organizations and for-profit corporations around the country.  Amy is passionate about evolving the landscape of the arts and the arts community in the Capital Region.

Over the last 20 years, Amy has also served as a board member for several arts and community organizations including: SaratogaArtsFest, SPAC Action Council and Saratoga Independent School.  Amy moved to the community from Boston, MA, in 2006 to raise her daughter and be close to her extended family and their summer home on Lake George.   

As a long-time and dedicated teacher, Amy has served on the faculty at Clarkson Graduate College, teaching medical students and MBA students about management, marketing, and health care research, and bioethics for almost 20 years.  Amy received her B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College and her Masters in Public Health (M.P.H.) from West Virginia University where she focused on social epidemiology and bioethics.

When Amy is not working, you can find her playing with her slightly quirky rescue dog, Max. Amy enjoys kayaking, cooking, reading, and spending time with her extended family and friends. 

Theresa Morrison

Assistant Director

tmorrison@saratoga-arts.org

Theresa joins the team at Saratoga Arts from the Western New York area. Her creative endeavors started at an early age with a love of poetry and theater. While earning her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Hilbert College, she became a published poet. Her career has led her to many different work experiences and working with the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity at Stella Niagara for the last four years has given her a solid foundation for work in the non-profit sector.

In September 2022, Theresa moved to the Capital Region to be with her partner and is still learning all the amazing things about the community of Saratoga Springs. In her spare time, Theresa enjoys watching football and rooting for her hometown team…Go Bills! She participates in the art abandonment movement, painting rocks and taking photographs; as well as reading great fantasy novels.

Grants and Community Outreach Coordinator

ssherry@saratoga-arts.org

Spencer has been a 518 resident ever since he graduated from high school in Laurens, NY. Always eager to experience new things (but never doing one thing for too long), he attended St. Rose for Music Industry, SUNY Oneonta for Criminal Justice, and UAlbany for Communications. His natural antsiness eventually led him to filmmaking, where there are unlimited stories to tell and every day is different. After a year of working as a production assistant on big budget projects in New York City, he returned upstate to produce his own work, believing that community is a better resource than locale.

Fundraising and promoting has become a large part of his independent filmmaking process, and developing those creative skills led him to a vast network of Capital Region filmmakers, to whom he offers guidance, enthusiasm, and support. He couldn't be more excited about his job of expanding that assistance to local artists in other mediums, and connecting them with funding opportunities. If he's not in his office, he's probably producing a film or mysterious event, building a patio at his home in Greenfield Center, or eating dinner at the bar with his partner Lauren.

Ally DeRusso

Exhibitions and Marketing Coordinator

aderusso@saratoga-arts.org

Ally is a interdisciplinary artist working with printmaking, photography, and fiber arts. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the College of Saint Rose. During her studies, she completed an internship at the Center for Photography at Woodstock instilling a passion for non-profit based work.

Prior to working at Saratoga Arts, she worked as a hand painted sign artist. In 2022, she was a grant recipient of an Individual Artist grant, part of the Community Regrant Program supported by Saratoga Arts. In her free time, she is probably in her studio printing and sewing, adventuring with her dog Canela, or cooking.