EP 119: 20 Rejections Later with Gin Stone
Art Problems
July 17, 2026
The Netvvrk podcast for ambitious artists who want more shows, bigger grants, and better residencies.
he art world tells artists that if you just keep going, eventually something will break for you. But persistence can also keep you stuck. If you don’t know something’s broken so you keep doing the same thing, you won’t grow.
That’s what happened to Gin Stone. Gin is a Cape Cod artist who did what she was supposed to do. She kept going. And she stayed stuck because she didn’t have the right help. In this episode, she talks about the gallery show that made her realize she had nothing to say about her own work, the overhaul that followed, and the grant she landed just last week for a sonification project built on 2,000 years of geological data.
To listen to the full podcast interview, click here:
https://artproblems.podbean.com/e/ep-119-20-rejections-later-with-gin-stone
Sunday, August 9, 2026
one night at farm projects
loop screening from 6-8
cyanotype-monotype stills from the film will be available
Lit from Within transforms firefly blink patterns into sound using custom software that reads each flash as a musical event. The accompanying video renders the fireflies as luminous, jellyfish-like forms blinking against a deep blue ground, connecting two of nature’s bioluminescent languages across land and sea. The result is an immersive twelve-minute work in which light, biology, and music merge into a single living system.
Photosensitivity Warning: This video contains the flashing of fireflies and visual effects that may trigger seizures in individuals with photosensitive epilepsy.
farm projects 355 main street, wellfleet
July 15, 2026
Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Project Grant
For the completion of the upcoming project DEPOSITS.
The sonification of geological core sample data and subsequent speaking engagement at the Center for Coastal Studies to take place in July, 2027
Arts Foundation of Cape Cod
Recent Speaking Engagement:
Where art and land meet: Collaborative event brings artists and conservation community together
March 11, 2026
The intriguing intersection between art and land conservation provided a catalyst for spirited conversation at a recent event sponsored by Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) and the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
https://harwichconservationtrust.org/where-art-and-land-meet-collaborative-event-brings-artists-and-conservation-community-together/
The Revenant and the Hunting Blind
2026
On view January-March 2026
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
460 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
Reviewed by the Portland Herald Press
Feb, 2019
Portland Herald Press writer Daniel Kany reviewed:
“Most of the artists are familiar names (and let’s be clear: there are a lot of excellent contemporary artists now without a local gallery, so I am very glad to see them at Greenhut), but a few are new to me, including New York sculptor Gin Stone whose two works are the most exciting in the show. “Bast” is a tall figure, armless like the remnants of a classical sculpture but with the face of a great cat. “Atlantic Canyons Coyote” is a howling coyote standing on a Westminster Dog Show kennel box. Both works are made of retired commercial fishing gear. They are stunning in every sense: sculptural form, detail, color, material. Stone’s two pieces alone are worth the trip.”
https://artsake.massculturalcouncil.org/studio-views-gin-stone/
Massachusetts Cultural Council: Studio Views
June 28, 2019
Cape Cod artist and environmentalist Gin Stone uses dyed reclaimed longline fishing gear to create her work. Here she discusses her process and how her environmental awareness directly influences her use of materials.
https://artsake.massculturalcouncil.org/studio-views-gin-stone/
“The installation will be accompanied by the sound of spring “peepers” — small frogs that make a resonant pond chorus in the spring with their mating calls — serving as the backdrop for a New Gallery Concert Series event on October 20 at 7 p.m. that brings together new pieces of music and visual art.
“The installation will be accompanied by the sound of spring “peepers” — small frogs that make a resonant pond chorus in the spring with their mating calls — serving as the backdrop for a New Gallery Concert Series event on October 20 at 7 p.m. that brings together new pieces of music and visual art.
The show is curated by Gin Stone, who lives and works on Cape Cod and is a highly passionate environmentalist who uses her artistic craft to encourage the recycling of marine materials and gear by integrating it into her animal, bird and “Humane Taxidermy” sculptural pieces.“
Stone’s interview with Helen Adams, Textile Curator:
Evolution, ecology and environmental activism are beautifully conveyed through American artist Gin Stone’s art. Critiquing “humanity’s approach to the degradation and disrespect of the natural world” she employs a range of found materials in her pieces that are rich in colour, texture and meaning.
