Stone serves on the board of directors of Friends of Fred Smith (chair, Conservation Committee), Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (chair, Collections and Acquisitions Committee), and SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments).
- Comprehensive repair of major storm damage at Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park, Phillips, WI, 1977-78; Conservation work at the site annually from 1988 to the present. Founder, Friends of Fred Smith, Inc. 1995.
- Preservation Plan and training, Father Paul Dobberstein’s Grotto of the Redemption , West Bend, IA, 2009.
- Preservation Plan, Mother of Sorrows Grotto, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA.
- Preservation Plan and complete restoration of Father Paul Dobberstein’s Liberty Fountain, John Brown Park, Humboldt, IA, City of Humboldt Parks Department, 2009-2011.
- Restoration of the Carl Peterson family memorial setting, St. James, MN, 2008.
- Preservation Plan and training, the Dickeyville Grotto , Dickeyville, WI, 2007 and 2009.
- Conservation of sculpture by Jacob Baker, Fred Smith, James Tellen, Herman Rusch, and Mary Nohl for Kohler Foundation, Inc . and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center , 2006-08.
- Planning and implementation of the restoration of The Painted Forest , Valton, WI, 1981-82, a project of Kohler Foundation, Inc.
- Planning and implementation of the preservation of the Paul and Matilda Wegner Grotto, Cataract, WI, a project of Kohler Foundation, Inc.
- Preservation of storm damage at Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park , 1977-78, and preservation at Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park, annually, 1988 to the present.
- Preservation of rock sculpture at the Ellsworth Rock Garden, as a volunteer for the National Park Service at Voyageur’s National Park, MN, 2001 & 2002.
- Conservation of sculpture at Nick Engelbert’s Grandview , Hollandale, WI, including replication of lost sculpture.
- Consultation on preservation of The Orange Show and The Beer Can House for The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art , Houston, TX, 2004, 2005.
- Consultation on conservation and installation of sculptures and architectural features by Fred Schlosstein, for the Herman Rusch Prairie Moon Museum and Sculpture Garden, Cochrane, WI, 2006 to Summer 2008
- Preservation Plan, Father Paul Dobberstein’s Grotto of the Redemption , West Bend, IA, 2009.
- Preservation Plan, Father Paul Dobberstein’s Liberty Fountain, John Brown Park, Humboldt, IA, 2009 (continuing).
- Preservation Plan, Mother of Sorrows Grotto, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA.
- Preservation Report, the Dickeyville Grotto , Dickeyville, WI, 2007 and 2009.
- Co-curator of the Henry Darger Room Collection, for Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL (2001-2008).
- Consultation on preservation of The Orange Show and The Beer Can House for The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston, TX, 2004, 2005.
- Volunteer (for the National Park Service) and preservation consultation, Ellsworth Rock Garden, Voyageur’s National Park, MN, 2001.
- Report and preservation plan for Dr. Charles Smith’s African American Heritage Museum and Black Veterans Archive, Aurora, IL, for Kane County Department of Development, 1999-2000.
- Curator of Interpretation, Nick Engelbert’s Grandview : design of historic house museum exhibits and on-site interpretation at Nick Engelbert’s Grandview, Hollandale, WI, a preservation project of Kohler, Foundation, Inc ., 1997.
- Site analysis and inventory of fragments at Nick Engelbert’s Grandview for Kohler Foundation Inc., 1995.
- Research, writing, preservation planning, and conservation at Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park , Phillips, WI, 1988 to the present.
- Research, writing, and restoration at the Paul and Matilda Wegner Grotto, Cataract, WI, 1986 – 1987. (A project of Kohler Foundation, Inc.)
- Research, writing, and restoration at The Painted Forest, Valton , WI, 1981-82. (A project of Kohler Foundation, Inc.)
Related teaching
Better Homes & Gardens: “Outsider” Art Environments, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , Department of Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism, with Professor Jim Zanzi, 1998 to the present.
European “Outsider” Art: Past and Present, with Randy Vick. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art History and Art Therapy departments, three-week study trips through Germany, Switzerland and Austria, 2004, 2006, 2008.
The Artist in the Landscape, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Art History, annual summer study, with Professor Jim Zanzi, 1985 - 1997
Related publications
Marines Raise Old Glory on Iwo Jima, co-authored with Jim Zanzi, a publication of Friends of Fred Smith, Phillips, WI, 2009
“The Kohler Foundation and Site Preservation: A Road Well Traveled,”
Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds: Built environments of Vernacular Artists, Leslie Umberger, Erica Doss, Jane Bianco, Ruth Kohler, Lisa Stone. John Michael Kohler Arts Center and Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.
The Art of Fred Smith, third edition. Monograph and self - guided tour of the Wisconsin Concrete Park, co - authored with Jim Zanzi, first published 1991, revised 1997 and 2007.
“Paul Hefti’s Garden”, Raw Vision #51, Spring 2005
“Granite Folly: Ellsworth Rock Garden”, Landscape Architecture, July 2003
Sacred Spaces and Other Places A Guide to the Grottos and Sculptural Environments of the Upper Midwest, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press, 1993, co-author, with Jim Zanzi
