Vicki Stone (born 1949) is an American folk artist. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the

Hurn Museum The Hurn Museum is a museum on Monterey Square in Savannah, Georgia, United States, devoted to American folk art, as well as the work of international self-taught artists. The museum is named after the late Deborah Hurn, a local champion of fol ...

in Savannah, Georgia, the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, and the Geezer Gallery in Multnomah Village, Oregon.

Work

Stone creates paintings, ceramics, and hand-hooked wall hangings. Her themes include family, motherhood, biblical imagery, and images drawn from Judaism. The American Visionary Art Museum, the

, the

Mennello Museum of American Art The Mennello Museum of American Art is an art museum located in the Howard Phillips' house in Loch Haven Park next to Lake Formosa in Orlando, Florida. The museum displays paintings and sculptures and contains at its core a permanent collection of ...

, and the

Oregon Jewish Museum The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is the largest museum dedicated to the documented and visual history of the Jews of Oregon, United States. The Museum is dedicated to the preservation, research, and exhibition of art, ...

have her work in their collections.

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. She and her husband, Jim, are

Orthodox Jews Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist and theologically conservative branches of contemporary Judaism. Jewish theology, Theologically, it is chiefly defined by regarding the Torah, both Torah, Written and Oral Torah, Or ...

, having become ''

baalei teshuva In Judaism, a ''ba'al teshuvah'' ( he, בעל תשובה; for a woman, , or ; plural, , , 'master of return God]') is a Jew who adopts some form of traditional religious observance after having previously followed a Jewish secularism, secular lif ...

'' in 1988; they are affiliated with Chabad of Oregon. They have a son, Ari, who moved to Israel in 2007.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Vicki 1949 births 20th-century American women painters 20th-century American painters Jews from Oregon American Orthodox Jews Artists from Portland, Oregon Living people Naïve painters 21st-century American women painters 21st-century American painters