Vicki Stone | |
Birth Date: | 1949 |
Nationality: | American |
Spouse: | Jim Stone |
Known For: | Painter |
Movement: | Folk art |
Vicki Stone (born 1949)[1] is an American folk artist. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Hurn Museum in Savannah, Georgia,[2] the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum,[3] and the Geezer Gallery in Multnomah Village, Oregon.[4]
Stone creates paintings, ceramics, and hand-hooked wall hangings.[4] Her themes include family, motherhood, biblical imagery, and images drawn from Judaism.[1] [5]
The American Visionary Art Museum, the Hurn Museum, the Mennello Museum of American Art, and the Oregon Jewish Museum have her work in their collections.[6]
A native of Chicago,[1] Stone currently resides in Portland, Oregon.[2] [4] She is a member of the Oregon Jewish Folk Arts Society, and delivered that society's inaugural lecture in 2009.[7] She and her husband, Jim, are Orthodox Jews, having become baalei teshuva in 1988; they are affiliated with Chabad of Oregon.[8] They have a son, Ari, who moved to Israel in 2007.[9]