Joan Cassis

Cassis went on to attend Maryland Institute College of Art and graduated in 1974. After college, she worked as a municipal government photographer before embarking on a free-lance photography career. In addition to photography she had a career as an art therapist and educator.^[2]

Cassis's work primarily centered around black and white photography, using the gelatin silver print process.^[3] She was noted for her portraits and for her use of oil paints to hand-color her photographs.^[2]

Her photographs were exhibited in galleries in the United States, as well as in Athens and Amsterdam.^[2]

Photographs by Cassis are in the collections of the Portland Art Museum,^[4] The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,^[5] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,^[6] the National Gallery of Art,^[7] the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,^[8] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,^[9] and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.^[10]

Joan Cassis died at the age of 43 on April 28, 1996, of an aneurysm. She lived in Hampden.^[1][2]