Artist Bio:

Jen Stone is a textile artist whose work explores memory, material inheritance, and the stories carried through cloth. Her relationship with fabric began at age ten when she launched her first fashion design business, sparking a lifelong fascination with the ability of textiles to transform, communicate, and connect people. She later earned a BFA in Fashion Design and built a career in branding, marketing, graphic design, and creative direction. Her background in fashion and visual communication continues to inform her artwork, where textiles, surface, and storytelling remain central themes. 

Stone’s practice is rooted in a family lineage of makers. Her grandmother taught her to sew, and her great-grandmother, an immigrant from Poland, worked a loom in upstate New York. Drawing from these traditions, she creates work that examines how knowledge, memory, and identity are passed through generations of women—often through quiet acts of making. 

Using salvaged textiles, thread, natural dyes, and stitched mark-making, Stone transforms lived materials into layered surfaces that reflect labor, history, and emotional permanence. Whether creating intimate gallery works or immersive installations that span city blocks, she treats textiles as both material and archive, exploring how fabric absorbs experience and carries traces of the people who touched it before us. 

Sustainability and gender equity are woven throughout Stone’s practice. Through her use of reclaimed materials and her wearable art initiative, Seams that Give, she seeks to honor existing resources while supporting organizations that uplift women in our communities. 

Today, Stone’s work invites viewers to consider what we inherit, what we carry forward, and what remains woven into us long after the original threads have faded.