Vicki Stone
{{short description|American painter}}
{{for|the English comedian|Vikki Stone}}
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| spouse = Jim Stone
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Vicki Stone (born 1949){{cite web|url=http://www.hurnmuseum.org/exhibits/vicki-stone#.UQGZ_Oi6uHk |title=Vicki Stone |publisher=Hurn Museum |year=2014 |accessdate=2013-07-24}} is an American folk artist. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Hurn Museum in Savannah, Georgia,{{cite web|url=http://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/art-patrol/Content?oid=2156104|first=Jim|last=Morekis|title=Art Patrol|date=31 August 2005|publisher=Connect Savannah |accessdate=6 January 2014}} the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum,Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1997. and the Geezer Gallery in Multnomah Village, Oregon.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishreview.org/arts/three-jewish0artists-featured-in-multnomah-gallery|title= Three Jewish artists featured in new Multnomah Village gallery|work=Jewish Review|date=15 June 2010|accessdate=6 January 2014}}
Work
Stone creates paintings, ceramics, and hand-hooked wall hangings. Her themes include family, motherhood, biblical imagery, and images drawn from Judaism.{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=11179387 |title=Vicki Stone - Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Vicki Stone |publisher=Askart.com |date=2009-11-07 |accessdate=2013-07-24}} (subscription)
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.{{cite web|url=http://brutforce.com/gallery-view/vicki-stone/|title=Vicki Stone|website=Brut Force|access-date=2018-03-09}}
Personal
A native of Chicago, Stone currently resides in Portland, Oregon. She is a member of the Oregon Jewish Folk Arts Society, and delivered that society's inaugural lecture in 2009.{{cite web |url=http://jewishreview.org/node/7318|title= Polina Olsen sews up something heavenly|first=Devorah Moon|last=Seldner|year=2009|accessdate=6 January 2014|work=Jewish Review}} She and her husband, Jim, are Orthodox Jews, having become baalei teshuva in 1988; they are affiliated with Chabad of Oregon.{{cite web |url=http://www.ojlife.com/2013/aug/features/portlanders-ring-sweet-new-year |title=Portlanders Ring in a Sweet New Year|first=Polina|last=Olsen|date=August 2013|accessdate=6 January 2014|work=Oregon Jewish Life}} They have a son, Ari, who moved to Israel in 2007.{{cite journal | url=http://www.nbn.org.il/news_2007/_fall/12.27.07.Jewish.Review.htm |title=Ari Stone, 21, casts his lot with Israel |journal=Jewish Review |date=Fall 2007 | accessdate=January 7, 2014 }}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://seemyart.org/}}
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Category:20th-century American women painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American Orthodox Jews
Category:Artists from Portland, Oregon