Stone Quarry’s Visiting Artist Program focuses on artists’ engagements with the landscape in a variety of materials, approaches, and disciplines. Stone Quarry envisions the park as a boundary object, a space that anyone can imagine, contribute, and collectively shape. The Visiting Artist Program positions responsiveness and collaboration at its center to create inclusive and equitable relationships with artists. Visiting Artists are awarded a stipend to create a project on the grounds. The Program is both process and project-based, which makes each artist’s conversation and time with Stone Quarry designed to fit the needs of the artist and their work.
We do not accept submissions for this program. Stone Quarry's Artistic Director administers invitations to participate in the visiting artist program. This process is guided by an Art Advisory Committee, a group of independent artists and scholars whose wide-ranging expertise informs the programming and advances the organization's commitment to equitable and inclusive practices.
We work with artists in various capacities in addition to the Visiting Artist Program. Learn more about Teaching Artists, Affiliate Artists, and Commissions at Stone Quarry.
2025 VISITING ARTISTS
We’re pleased to welcome the 2025 visiting artists! Stay tuned via our newsletter and social media for more information on their work at the park this spring, summer, and fall.
Jaleel Campbell – In collaboration with his crochet group, "Off the Hook," Jaleel will make a crocheted sculpture titled Garden Party. He is a recipient of a 2025 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant.
Jaleel Campbell is a New York based artist whose work ranges from illustration, curating, directing, performing and the latest, Doll making. Jaleel attained his BFA in Visual Communications with a specialization in Graphic Design from Cazenovia College and his MFA in Media Arts & Culture from SUNY Purchase. His passion for creating knows no bounds. It is through these acts that community building comes to the forefront. That is Jaleel's mission and what drives him the most. Whether it be through illustration work that showcases the often underrepresented, video work that captures the beauty and essence of black life and culture, or handmade dolls that aim to honor and acknowledge African traditions, there is no limit to his creativity and he will continue creating work that reminds black people of their worth; even when the world becomes too heavy.
Julia Lines Wilson - Throughout the summer and fall, Julia will make Collective Mending, a project that builds upon an ongoing series Weaving the Grasses of America where the artist
methodically collects plant matter from a site and weaves it.
Julia Lines Wilson holds a BFA in Fiber Art and Material Studies and an MLA in Landscape Architecture. Her work blends these two fields of study: interlacing weaving, art, and landscape to create spaces for inter-species connections across ecological, social, and urban systems. Her research focuses on how we might participate as co-creators of place while emphasizing site material as, simultaneously, living memory and design future. She was named an LAF Olmsted Scholar in 2024.
Wilson’s speculative garden, FUTURE DRIFTS, was one of four winners of the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival in Québec in 2024. It provides a diverse set of conditions for asters to potentially cross within in response to changing habitats and climates, creating multiple spaces for possible future ecologies.
In 2025, Wilson will live on Governor’s Island in NYC in residency at the Institute for Public Architecture’s Block House. She will research textile language and techniques as landscape design tools, and engage with the public through weaving and plant relationships.
Her project at SQHAP, Collective Mending, blends weaving and meadow-sowing to visibly mend a disturbed open woodland. This landscape intervention and public art project is funded by a 2025 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant.
Patrick Francis McGuan - Patrick has been working with a meadow on Stone Quarry's grounds where ash trees dying from the ash borer were felled. This summer, as part of their ongoing series In the Dry, they will stage a burn and choral performance in the meadow.
Patrick Francis McGuan earned a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Originally from the Midwest, Patrick taught at Syracuse University and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska. Their research focuses on labor and environmental history, visionary and devotional art, and modernist/postmodern literature. Patrick has shown nationally at artist-run and nonprofit spaces and maintains a studio practice that draws from experimental writing, textile production, and woodworking.
http://www.patrickfrancismcguan.com
2025 HILLTOP HOUSE FELLOW
Patricia Christakos - Patti will make multimedia and site-responsive work within Stone Quarry's historic Hilltop House, the home of park founder Dorothy Riester.
Patricia Christakos is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator specializing in photography, experimental video, installation, and collage. She lives in Cazenovia and southwest Florida. Using found, archival, and original materials, she creates layered, semi-autobiographical domestic narratives. Christakos established CauseGood Prints, an exhibition aimed at raising awareness and funds for organizations supporting the health and safety of women and girls. In 2025, in association with the Laughlin Gallery, of Chicago, CauseGood supported the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Christakos' photo-based and video work has been featured nationally and internationally. Most recently, her experimental video, Possibilities, received the “Critics’ Pick” award at the Syracuse MicroFilm Festival at the Everson Museum Plaza in October 2024. Her latest project, Spirts of the Flowers Keep Watch, examines the life of Jeanne Barret, an 18th-century botanist and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
She holds an MFA in Media Arts from Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine and a BS in Journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. She is a member of the Living Poets of Boca Grande. And most importantly, she served as Dorothy Riester’s first assistant at Stone Quarry Art Park. www.patriciachristakos.com
CONTINUING VISITING ARTISTS
This summer and fall we welcome the culmination of projects by 2024 Visiting Artists.
Mildred Beltré – In the summer, Mildred will construct a hand-woven sculptural shelter.
Mildred Beltré is an artist living and working in New York City. Her works in print and drawing examine facets of social change. Her current work involves using self-portrait and text based work to explore race, social interaction, desire, and the simultaneous but opposing concepts of hypervisibility and invisibility. Beltré is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, an ongoing socially engaged collaborative art project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn that addresses gentrification and community building through art-making. http://www.mildredbeltre.com/
Left: Corset (Rupturing Silence), photo credit Taylor M. Meredith; Right: photo credit ParKer Bryant
Dominique C. Hill – Throughout the spring and summer, Dominique will make Experiments in Erotic Rupture: a process of being with land, self, memory, and Black feminist theory. The work will be a series of “experiments” that will culminate in an interactive experience and a poem series titled "Inconvenient Breaks". Dominique is a recipient of a 2024 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant.
Lover, daughter, and cultural worker, Dominique C. Hill, PhD, is an interdisciplinary scholar-creative whose work explores embodiment, Black girlhood, body memory, and intergenerational tensions. Hill enacts spiritual and intergenerational work as a homegirl of Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), a guide of the 28 Day Global Dance Meditation, and as co-visionary of Hill L. Waters (HLW). An arts-based research collaborative that enacts Black queer worldmaking, HLW conducts workshops, stages original performances, and co-authors scholarship dedicated to Black liberation. Navigating geographies and contexts racially charged, anti-queer, and organized by dichotomies, Hill’s artistic practice, research, writing, and communal engagement destabilizes domination, investigates material and normalized borders, as well as engenders deeper intimacy and embodied living. Storied by elders as “dancing before she could walk, '' and raised by three generations of womn who know the power of prayer, girls’ night out, and a strong work ethic, Hill is inspired by Black social dance, everyday artful living, poetry, and queer configurations of family. Fluent in introspection, storytelling, mindful and inquiry-based movement, Hill harnesses and celebrates Black survival. Hill’s book (forthcoming 2025) titled, Black Gurl Reliable examines embodiment and practices of resistance in Black girlhood. Hill is also co-author of two books, Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet (Routledge, 2022) and Who look at me?!: Shifting the Gaze of Education Through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body (Brill|Sense, 2019). Hill extends the field of Black Girlhood Studies as an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colgate University.
Jessi Li & Becky Sellinger – Collaborating throughout the summer, Jessi and Becky will construct a monumental ceramic sculpture titled Sister Cistern. Jessi is a recipient of a 2024 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant.
Jessi Li is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work investigates the relationship between human intervention and the natural world. Li works primarily in ceramic and glass sculpture. Their most recent work was exhibited at Management (New York, NY) in March. They are a 2024 NYSCA Support for Artist Grant recipient and will complete a large-scale outdoor work this summer at Stone Quarry Art Park in collaboration with Becky Sellinger. They hold a MFA in sculpture from Hunter College (2019), a BA in ceramics from Bard College at Simon’s Rock (2009), and a post-baccalaureate in Glass at VCU School of Art (2014). Li has exhibited nationally in group and solo exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include: Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge at Urban Glass (2024, Brooklyn, NY) Nowhere Fast at Olympia (2023, New York, NY), Heavy Show at Spring/Break (2022, New York, NY), 100 Sculptures at Anonymous Gallery (2021, New York, NY). Li was an artist in residence at Chautauqua School of Art and Pottery Northwest. Li teaches sculpture, ceramics, and glass casting at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Greenwich House Pottery, and independently. https://jessili.net/
Becky Sellinger is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist, community organizer, and educator living and working in Kingston, New York. Becky has taught at Pratt Institute, SUNY Purchase, Virginia Commonwealth University, Haverford College, and Georgia Southern University. She serves on an alumni board for Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, organizing programs and creating opportunities for past participants. She was a Fellow at Fine Arts Work Center in 2017 where she taught art classes for local youth as an artist in residence. Becky received an MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase. In 2023 she traveled to Berlin to exhibit work at 48 Stunden Neukölln and was a resident artist at Sculpture Space, was included in an exhibition as part of Miami Art Basel, as had work aquiredn by the Golden Foundation and The Jewish Museum. she has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2012), Artpark (2015), and a fellowship at Fine Arts Work Center (2016-17). Becky’s exhibition record includes projects at Socrates Sculpture Park, Antenna Gallery, ArtPark, Practice Gallery, September gallery, University of Kentucky, and Hudson D. Walker Gallery, amongst others. Becky’s work is humorous, often using her physical body as a site to engage a dialog around social conditioning and the construct of femininity. http://www.beckysellinger.com
Stone Quarry Art Park’s Visiting Artist program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.