Daniella Kerner spent decades teaching art at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Now she runs the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, which has anchored the arts on the Island for more than 75 years.

That pedigree shows in all the initiatives the Foundation brings to the Island. This year LBIF hung a coastal exhibition curated by Michelle Donnelly, whose resume before arriving at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts included curatorial posts at the Whitney, the…