2026 Visiting Artists at Stone Quarry Art Park Announced!

Stone Quarry’s Visiting Artist Program focuses on artists’ engagements with the landscape in a variety of materials, approaches, and disciplines. Stone Quarry envisions the park as a boundary object, a space that anyone can imagine, contribute, and collectively shape. The Visiting Artist Program positions responsiveness and collaboration at its center to create inclusive and equitable relationships with artists. Visiting Artists are awarded a stipend to create a project on the grounds. The Program is both process and project-based, which makes each artist’s conversation and time with Stone Quarry designed to fit the needs of the artist and their work.

We do not accept submissions for this program. Stone Quarry's Artistic Director administers invitations to participate in the visiting artist program. This process is guided by an Art Advisory Committee, a group of independent artists and scholars whose wide-ranging expertise informs the programming and advances the organization's commitment to equitable and inclusive practices.

We work with artists in various capacities in addition to the Visiting Artist Program. Learn more about Teaching Artists, Affiliate Artists, and Commissions at Stone Quarry.

2026 VISITING ARTISTS

We welcome our 2026 visiting artists! Stay tuned via our newsletter and social media for more information on their work at the park this spring, summer, and fall.

Jeremy Tarr – Jeremy will realize the installation Night Field, a series of sculptures, unifying fencing and non-invasive honeysuckle, that will sustain the relationship between diurnal viewers and nocturnal pollinators in tandem with the park’s native landscape. Jeremy is a recipient of a NYS Council on the Arts Support for Artists grant.

Jeremy Tarr was born to a blue-collar family and raised in the working-class neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. Tarr works as an instructor at Syracuse University teaching Digital Sculpture in the Studio Arts concentration and as a technical fabricator in the School of Architecture. He received his MFA at Syracuse University and has exhibited domestically and internationally in Pittsburgh, Berlin, Italy, NYC, and LA. Tarr has been an artist in residence at the Axel Haubrok Fahrbereitschaft in Berlin and Governors Island, NYC.

Tarr’s work is informed by the landscape of the Appalachian Rust Belt and its mythologies. At the core of his practice is the presence of the empty, the physicality of the immaterial, and the complexities of unknowing as a means of liberation. https://jeremytarr.com/

grace otten – grace will premiere their outdoor play, the tree of meaning in a forest of troubles in June 2026.

grace otten (b. 1997, ny, usa) (they/them) is an experimental lesbian maker that works across a chaotic range of mediums and skills. they shine a spotlight on the inherent drama of gender, relationships, and self-discovery through displays of fleshy, honest, campy objects and videos. they hope the absurd vulnerability they offer gives the viewer permission to indulge in the abject pleasures of life. otten received their bfa in studio arts and a minor in art history from the university of north texas in 2020 and a mfa in studio arts from syracuse university in 2024. they have shown work in texas, new york, germany, and kosovo. they held the position of gallery curator for random access gallery in syracuse, ny from 2021-2022 and served as the resident teaching artist at stone quarry art park from 2023-2024.

since 2024, otten has worked as an artist and middle school art teacher in austin, tx. https://www.graceotten.art/

Daisy Wiley –Daisy will explore the evolution of birdsong in response to environment. She will be creating a sound installation of invented avian vocalizations adapted to unique aspects of the park.

Daisy Wiley (b.1993, Virginia) works across media to unearth mythologies embedded in landscape, explore the space between things and their representations, and consider how collapse and illegibility can also contain the possibility of radical transformation. Her research is driven by political ecology, public memory studies, speculative fiction, her history in the DIY punk community, and her organizing experiences in Upstate NY around tenancy and land use. She is currently living in rural Western Pennsylvania, where, when not working as the Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, she spends her time wandering the Allegheny National Forest hunting for deer bones and the ghosts of oil barons.

Daisy received her BFA in Art from James Madison University and her MFA in Studio Art from Syracuse University. She has exhibited work across the East and West Coast and abroad. www.daisywiley.com

CONTINUING VISITING ARTISTS

This summer and fall we welcome the culmination of projects by 2025 Visiting Artists.

Jaleel Campbell – In collaboration with his crochet group, "Off the Hook," Jaleel will make a crocheted sculpture titled Garden Party. Jaleel is a recipient of a NYS Council on the Arts Support for Artists grant.

Jaleel Campbell is a New York based artist whose work ranges from illustration, curating, directing, performing and the latest, Doll making. Jaleel attained his BFA in Visual Communications with a specialization in Graphic Design from Cazenovia College and his MFA in Media Arts & Culture from SUNY Purchase. His passion for creating knows no bounds. It is through these acts that community building comes to the forefront. That is Jaleel's mission and what drives him the most. Whether it be through illustration work that showcases the often underrepresented, video work that captures the beauty and essence of black life and culture, or handmade dolls that aim to honor and acknowledge African traditions, there is no limit to his creativity and he will continue creating work that reminds black people of their worth; even when the world becomes too heavy.

Julia Lines Wilson - Throughout the summer and fall, Julia will make Collective Mending, a project that builds upon an ongoing series Weaving the Grasses of America where the artist methodically collects plant matter from a site and weaves it. The project blends weaving and meadow-sowing to visibly mend a disturbed open woodland. Julia is a recipient of a NYS Council on the Arts Support for Artists grant.

Julia Lines Wilson holds a BFA in Fiber Art and Material Studies and an MLA in Landscape Architecture. Her work blends these two fields of study: interlacing weaving, art, and landscape to create spaces for inter-species connections across ecological, social, and urban systems. Her research focuses on how we might participate as co-creators of place while emphasizing site material as, simultaneously, living memory and design future. She was named an LAF Olmsted Scholar in 2024.

Wilson’s speculative garden, FUTURE DRIFTS, was one of four winners of the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival in Québec in 2024. It provides a diverse set of conditions for asters to potentially cross within in response to changing habitats and climates, creating multiple spaces for possible future ecologies.

In 2025, Wilson will live on Governor’s Island in NYC in residency at the Institute for Public Architecture’s Block House. She will research textile language and techniques as landscape design tools, and engage with the public through weaving and plant relationships.

HILLTOP HOUSE FELLOW

Patricia Christakos - Patti will continue her work from 2025, making multimedia and site-responsive work within Stone Quarry's historic Hilltop House, the home of park founder Dorothy Riester.

Patricia Christakos is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator specializing in photography, experimental video, installation, and collage. She lives in Cazenovia and southwest Florida. Using found, archival, and original materials, she creates layered, semi-autobiographical domestic narratives. Christakos established CauseGood Prints, an exhibition aimed at raising awareness and funds for organizations supporting the health and safety of women and girls. In 2025, in association with the Laughlin Gallery, of Chicago, CauseGood supported the Center for Reproductive Rights

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Christakos' photo-based and video work has been featured nationally and internationally. Most recently, her experimental video, Possibilities, received the “Critics’ Pick” award at the Syracuse MicroFilm Festival at the Everson Museum Plaza in October 2024. Her latest project, Spirts of the Flowers Keep Watch, examines the life of Jeanne Barret, an 18th-century botanist and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.

She holds an MFA in Media Arts from Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine and a BS in Journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. She is a member of the Living Poets of Boca Grande. And most importantly, she served as Dorothy Riester’s first assistant at Stone Quarry Art Park. www.patriciachristakos.com