About the Artist

Kim Stone is a graduate with honors from York Academy of Art (now Pennsylvania College of Art and Design) and attended Wesley College, Dover, Delaware. Her major at Wesley was secondary education and at York Academy, graphic design and illustration. She has also studied with Richard McKinley, Liz Haywood Sullivan and Margaret Dyer.

Kim lived  in Wilmington, Delaware for 20 years and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in the field of Advertising. For the second half of her career she was employed in Publishing as the art director and designer of the 52-page quarterly magazine, Pennsylvania Heritage, published by the PA Historical and Museum Commission.

Kim has exhibited, won awards and sold paintings throughout the Mid Atlantic region and executed many commissioned portraits. A past instructor at the Art Association of Harrisburg, her classes in Portraiture and  Intro to Pastel were popular. At present she teaches a summer plein air sketching class at the Carlisle Arts Learning Center and seasonal Pastel Painting classes at the York Art Association.

Kim Stone is a Signature Member and past president of the Maryland Pastel Society, a Signature Member of the Philadelphia Pastel Society and an Artist Member of the Pastel Society of America.  She belongs to the Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters and enjoys painting in the open air with fellow artists. Her work is represented at Village Artisans, Boiling Springs, PA.