Merce Cunningham and John Cage had performed at the university at that time and praised artwork that Staller had created.

[1] He had purchased an 1829-vingtage Lutheran Church, located in Lyons, PA. Staller used and renovated the church as a weekend retreat until 1991, then decided to move out of New York to live full-time in Lyons, PA.[2] Staller had wanted to live in Europe after he had visited Amsterdam in 1988 to show his work at an opening of a gallery show.

Staller lived in Amsterdam for fifteen years before moving back to the United States to the city of San Francisco in 2010.

Staller was invited by the director of the graduate painting department at the Maryland Institute College of Art[5] several times in the 1970s to lecture about his work, as well as to give student critiques.

[10]A book written by Staller, Out of my Mind is an autobiographical illustrated novel with more than 150 color photos of his work and life experiences.

I wanted to give the reader an intimate look at my creative process; to show how my life and loves, my places and times, have been inseparable from my 35 years of art making.

[12] In 1990 Eric and Deborah Staller (his wife at the time) in collaboration with Paul Degen, Enno Wiersma and Mundy Hepburn exhibited the Magic Garden at Twin 21 Plaza, Osaka, the second largest city in Japan.

This collaboration was commissioned work by Matsushita Investment and Development Co.[13][14] Staller has said that "Mr Lonely is a quiet and subtle reminder of what ultimately awaits us all".

[15][16] Anisse Gross of the Bold Italic web based news media, interviewed Staller about his urban UFOs, published on September 21, 2011.