“Si fuéramos pájaros,” 2025, earthenware, slip, glaze, pastel, textile, 15 x 4 x 10 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Teaching Artist Cohort
2025
Sorrel Stone is a sculptor who grew up in Connecticut’s dairy farming region and currently lives between Toledo and Syracuse, New York. Their work uses figurative sculpture as a means of storytelling and placemaking for feminine, queer, and immigrant bodies. These pieces engage with identity politics rooted in the colonization of land and bodies throughout the Americas.
Stone holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. They are a professor at the University of Toledo, a co-founder of the Trans Inclusive Ceramics Collective, and a Regina Brown Fellow through the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
Their work has been exhibited widely across North America, from the Archie Bray Foundation to Art Basel Miami. In 2024, Stone was a Yasha Young Sculpture Award Finalist for the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. They have been recognized as one of the "Top 20 Sculptors to Follow" by Art is My Career, and one of “12 Contemporary Ceramic Artists Breathing New Life Into an Age-Old Tradition” by Munchies Art Club Magazine.
Selected works
“Si fuéramos pájaros,” 2025, earthenware, slip, glaze, pastel, textile, 15 x 4 x 10 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“The Price on Power,” 2022, red stoneware, glaze, underglaze, luster, flocking, acrylic. 3 x 3 x 3 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“The Stockyard Was a Stage,” 2023, earthenware, slip, glaze, pastel, woven textile, polyfill, metal beads, 9 x 5 x 5 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Fording the River on the Oregon Trail,” 2023, earthenware, slip, glaze, oil pastel, 2.5 x 2.5 x 3 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“White Fences,” 2024, earthenware, slip, glaze, glitter, fibers, 3 x 2.5 x 4 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Calamity Jane: Wild Goose Chase,” 2023, stoneware, iron oxide, slip, graphite powder, heel rope lasso, house paint, 2 x 2 x 9 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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