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.
2024 VISITING ARTISTS
We’re pleased to welcome the 2024 visiting artists! Stay tuned via our newsletter and social media for more information on their work at the park this spring, summer, and fall.
Ann Clarke – Throughout the summer, Ann will create three “sanctuaries” using milk paints, knitted panels, and wildflower seeds, as part of her new body of work, Interior Landscapes. Ann is a recipient of a 2024 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant.
Ann Clarke, originally from Rochester, NY, is a fiber artist who received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She holds a BFA degree in painting and printmaking from the University of Michigan. Clarke started as a faculty member at East Tennessee University in 1994 and in 1998, she joined Syracuse University School of Art faculty in Fiber Arts/Material Studies. In 2008, she was named the Dean of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, returned to faculty in 2016, and is retiring from teaching in May of 2024 to pursue a lifelong dream of being a full time artist.
Showing extensively across the US ,as well having done a residency with the Peaked Hill Trust Arts and Sciences Program with Cape Cod’s National Seashore, Clarke’s current work is about finding beauty in ordinary motifs that express an intense caring. She works primarily in textiles, which embody the history of the home, and domestic space acknowledging that textiles have an intimacy with our bodies and how we experience the world. Her materials are made from nature, transformed by her hands into pieces that possess a particular substance and physicality that is critical to her. These are foundational constructs on which she builds her work.
Interior Landscapes is a new body of work that shifts from previous work to the use of nature and landscape imagery, focusing on trees, as an expression of interior "spaces" - states of mind.
The image left is of a completed, environmental pour drying beneath the sun. 2023. Location: Leland, MI. Image courtesy of the artist.
Hong Hong – In September, working with shadows, trees and text, Hong is creating a site-specific installation and performance titled Proof.
Each summer and fall, Hong Hong (b. 1989, Hefei, Anhui, China) travels to faraway and distinct locations to make paper under the sky. The environmental, site-specific investigations map interstitial relationships between landscape, time, and the body through cartographic, symbolic, and material languages. During the winter and spring, she forms paintings directly on the floor of her studio. These schematics combine story-telling, text, and image-making to document states of interiority and subjectivity.
Hong is the recipient of a Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024 - 2026), a United States Artists Fellowship in Craft (2023), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting (2023), a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship at MacDowell (2020), a Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center (2019), an Artistic Excellence Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of Arts (2019), and a Creation of New Work Grant from the Edward C. And Ann T. Roberts Foundation (2018 - 2019). She also participated in residencies at McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2022), Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2020 - 2021), Yaddo (2019), and I-Park (2018).
Hong has presented her work in exhibitions at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA), , Ortega Y Gasset Projects (New York, NY), Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA), NXTHVN (New Haven, CT), San Francisco Center for Book Arts (San Francisco, CA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA), Akron Art Museum (Akron, OH), Texas Asia Society (Houston, TX), and University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas, TX), among others. Her practice received press in publications such as Art21, Art New England, Southwest Contemporary, Hyperallergic, Public Parking, Two Coats of Paint, and Glasstire.
Hong is currently procrastinating on several projects: the first is a book about shadows, the second is a film called Red, and the last is a painting that she can fly. She is also preparing for an upcoming solo exhibition at Rule Gallery (Denver, CO). Hong lives and works in Massachusetts. http://www.honghong.studio/
Xinan Helen Ran – This summer, Xinan will make land art that draws from her ongoing work, SoilSandSelfie, creating oversized sculptural text forms. Xinan is a recipient of a 2024 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant.
Xinan Helen Ran (b. 1994. Inner Mongolia, China) is an artist who specializes in fabric, language, and found objects to construct emotional landscapes. She searches for the point where trauma, nihilism, and humor converge. Xinan has exhibited nationally and internationally at Inna Art Space (Hangzhou), Hauser & Wirth (New York), and collaborated on public projects with Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology (Cambridge, MA), Clover Nature (Shanghai), Acompi (New York) and Beam Center (New York). Xinan was a 2023 mentee in New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center resident (2022), and an Ox-Bow Summer Fellow (2016). Xinan is also an art educator, an art administrator, and a set designer for new theaters. www.xinanran.work
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/
NIC Kay – In May, NIC will make a performance within an installation of wood sculptures and t-shirts that express and embody cultures and languages of the Black diaspora.
NIC Kay (b. 1989 Bronx, NY) makes performances and organizes performative spaces. Their works have been performed nationally and internationally in spaces including Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Canada; Encuentro 19, Mexico City, Mexico; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; and University of Arts, Zürich, Switzerland. NIC was a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2020). They published their first book, Cotton Dreams, with Candor Arts in 2020. NIC is a Black queer trans non-binary person. https://www.nic-kay.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.