Photo by Alexis Buryk for Apartment Therapy.
Above: Deborah and Pablo. Below: Pablo, who offers endless insight to wild things.
From Impossible Flowers, in the 2023 L’Ecole Des Beaux Arts Spring Group Show
Chance, the wonkiness of things and discovering she’s used the wrong ink for the paper.
Deborah’s work for Collodi’s Pinocchio.
Deborah’s first garden that wasn’t planted illegally on a fire escape.
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ABOUT
Deborah Stein is an artist and writer who lives between New York City and a small mountain village in Northern New Mexico with her husband and a little dog named Pablo. She writes and makes art for humans of all ages to express different ways of seeing the world and our places in it.
Deborah’s original artworks can be found at LDBA gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she sometimes teaches watercolor workshops. You can see where her art meets her writing on her substack Sometimes a Ghost. Her visual narrative and story-making workshops, salons, and creative residencies can be found through her rogue art school The Storycamp Disco. She’ll be teaching alongside Sophie Blackall at Milkwood and Margaux Kent at The Highlights Foundation in 2025.
She loves reading and looking at art and listening music. Also hiding in bookshops, and poking in gardens. Also meandering back roads, movies in movie theaters, talking to strangers, hiking up hills and walking along rivers. Also cooking (she almost went to cooking school but thought that would take the fun out of it). Oh! And laughing, drawing in the car and being with humans and animals she loves.
Where to find Deborah’s work
Deborah’s fifth show is coming summer of 2025, Human/Nature, a collaboration with artist Sean Hudson at LDBA Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work will also be part of Sound and Vision at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe in October 2025.
Her writing and art was chosen by Khôra Journal to be part of their four-month curated writer program as the first writer-artist ever in 2024—issues 32-35, April-July 2024. Her work The Sea was chosen for Khôra’s cover and was the featured artist for the November 2023 Issue.
In January 2023 Deborah was a fiction fellow at the Under The Volcano residency in Tepoztlan, Mexico working with Sabrina Orah Mark, and in May 2023 was in residency for writing and painting at The Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, MA. Her artwork Ways of Dreaming My Way Home was chosen to accompany Chaya Babu’s writing in the Spring 2023 edition of the Literary Journal Rowayat.
Deborah’s art was part of Here Projects in DiVerCity in 2019 and Next Level in 2018 curated by Tamika Rivera as part of NY Design Week. She worked with the Women's March on Washington-NYC Chapter as Arts & Events Coordinator/Producer in 2017 creating some of the first sign-making tutorials and workshops that went national.
deborah.stein@me.com for inquiries
Instagram: @deborah.j.stein
StoryCamp Disco for on-line workshops and residencies
SOMETIMES A GHOST at Substack
The Sea, selected as the cover of Khôra Magazine’s November 2023 issue
The Storycamp disco story and 2024’s live retreat
Deborah with a family of toymakers she studied with in India for a year as a young lass. Want to know more? Call me!
Nocturne Project, 2023
A young Deborah in the wild, circa 1874
