Teaching Artists

Teaching Artists design activities and projects relating to Stone Quarry’s grounds and artworks on site for group visits. Activities are tailored for K-12, higher-ed, and adult visitors.

Interested in becoming a Teaching Artist? Please direct queries to Artistic Director Sayward Schoonmaker at sayward@sqhap.org

Current Teaching Artists

As an interdisciplinary artist growing up in the rural impoverished farmlands of Northeast Tennessee, KB Stallings’s work narrates intimate experiences of trauma, home, grief, and communal vulnerability under both conceptual and satirical platforms. As a first-generation college graduate receiving their BFA from Middle Tennessee State University and their MA in sculpture and intermedia from The University of Iowa, Stallings practice gravitates towards performance, video, installation, poetry, and experimental culinary work.

Stallings has participated in over 35 exhibitions to date across the U.S. and has been published by MTSU's Collage magazine, Nashville Arts Magazine, and Z Publishing House's Tennessee's Best Emerging Poets. Their work has been added to the permanent achieves at the University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection and the Stones River National Battlefield Museum in Tennessee. Stallings currently resides in Syracuse, New York where they are finishing their MFA.

Laura Reeder investigates ways that people learn from each other and from the earth. Laura walks, draws, documents, and cultivates in-between spaces to better understand details that we may miss through our overdependence on glowing digital screens. She crafts new spaces where we can move, breathe, look, listen, and learn. https://laurakreeder.com/

Past Teaching Artists

2023-2024, grace otten, https://www.graceotten.art/

2021-2022, Jessica Hyatt