Lisa Stone

Lisa Stone focuses on the documentation and preservation of artists’ environments, museums, and collections. She has been involved in the preservation of artist-built environments since 1981. She has a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection and Senior Lecturer in the department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism. She’s co-author of Sacred Spaces & Other Places: A Guide to the Grottos & Sculptural Environments of the Upper Midwest (with Jim Zanzi, SAIC Press, 1993), and lectures and writes widely on the subjects of environment builders, placemakers, and non-mainstream artists. Interested especially in the history of art sites in the Midwest, Stone’s response to the work of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein included researching and writing about his sculptures.