Alison Batley Stone is an artist, designer and high school art teacher at Pinecrest Academy. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from N.C. State College of Design with a B.A. in Design. Alison then received her Visual Arts teaching certification from Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. Furthermore, she studied two years of Theology at Aquinas College, in Nashville, TN. Alison Stone earned her M.F.A in Printmaking at SCAD-Atlanta.                    

Mrs. Stone has developed an International K-8 curriculum, as well as High School and AP Studio Art programs. In 2008, she was awarded the Archbishop of Atlanta’s Honoree: Teacher of the Year Award. She has served as Assistant to Children’s Programs at the North Carolina Museum of Art and continues to give talks, lectures, and workshops to students of all ages about the nature and creation of art.

Her work explores all aspects of what it means to be a human being, through a variety of printmaking techniques and other two and three-dimensional mediums. Through visual metaphors, her work investigates the relationship and interconnectedness surrounding the human experience of love and life in our contemporary age. Alison Stone has won awards in juried shows and exhibited work in galleries around Raleigh and Atlanta. Mrs. Stone also has been invited to present her work involving humanitarian issues at several Atlanta locations. Most recently, her work concerning bioethical issues was one of 11 winners of a UNESCO sponsored Global Art Competition, and was exhibited at the United Nations in New York, and is currently being exhibited internationally. Alison Stone also won the Excellence Award for Awagami International Mini Print Exhibition in Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima where her work is on permanent display.