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Karen Green Stone

Karen Green Stone is a potter who lives north of Bloomington, Indiana and works in her ridge top studio in the woods. Primarily a functional potter for over 30 years, she works in both porcelain and stoneware clays.

As a ceramics student she attended Loretto Heights College in Denver, Colorado including classes and workshops with nationally and internationally known potters. She became a member of Colorado Potters’ Guild in 1991 and remains an Associate Member and participates in fall and spring shows annually.

Karen moved to Bloomington in 1994 where she set up her current studio. In 1997 Barb Bihler, Curator and Co-Curators Susan Snyder, Tena Wenta and Karen organized “Local Clay” featuring twenty-eight ceramic artists from around Bloomington and Nashville in the Rosemary P. Miller Gallery at the John Waldron Arts Center. Based on the success of the gallery show, Local Clay Potter’s Guild was created. Karen currently serves as the President.

Karen has taught children and adult ceramics classes at The John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington and an award winning class, “The Science of Art” funded by a grant from the Raymond Foundation. She served a Board Member of the Bloomington Arts Council from 1997 – 2003 and on the Education Committee of the BAAC from 1997 until 2005. She participates in group shows and sells work at the John Waldron Arts Center gift shop. Karen was selected to create the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award by the Indiana Arts Commission.

The work she produces is primarily wheel thrown and decorated using various carving, etching, and appliqué techniques. While drawing her inspiration from the natural world using flowers, butterflies, earth, water and sky, she frequently studies the work of painter Georgia O’Keeffe, Arts and Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau who worked in a studio near Karen’s family home in Syracuse, New York and ceramicists Tashiko Takeazu and Nan McKinnell, her former teacher. While focusing on washes of color, Karen experiments with combinations and forms that draw the eye into the piece using colored slips, stains and glaze over glaze methods in this quest. Although many of the porcelain pieces appear to be delicate, they are durable and can be used every day.