Biography
Summer Lynn Moore-Stone is an artist, educator, and collaborator from a small town in northwest Indiana. She earned her BFA in Glass and BS in Art Education from Ball State University, where her work explored her experiences growing up in a working-class community. During her undergraduate studies, Stone exhibited work in Wroclaw, Poland;Knoxville, Tennessee; Carbondale, Illinois; and throughout Indiana. She also received scholarships to the Pittsburgh Glass Center and the Toledo Museum of Art.
Stone earned her MFA in Glass from Tyler School of Art and Architecture as a University Fellow. After graduate school, she completed a fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art, where she later served as a technical assistant ,while continuing to exhibit in Philadelphia, Seattle, and Indianapolis. Working with glass, video, and other media, she investigates the tensions created between transience and permanence, the delicate and durable, and morality and immorality.
She went on to serve as Educational Coordinator and Head Instructor at GRT Hot Glass in Indianapolis before spending three years as a high school art teacher, organizing exhibitions, mentoring students, and leading extracurricular art programs.
Stone currently serves as the Recruitment and Special Projects Coordinator in the School of Art at Ball State University, where she shares her passion for her alma mater while collaborating with students, faculty, and the broader university community.
