More Store exhibition by transferring her paintings and drawings into small multiples: such as plastic shopping bags, gravestone-rubbing place mats, and jigsaw puzzles.

More Store exhibition featured inexpensive works by some 150 artists, including Tom Otterness, Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, and Barbara Kruger.

[2] Beginning a period of extensive travel and journalistic work in 1985 Stahl took up aquarelle and collage as a more portable medium suitable for recording the variations of color and light in distant lands.

While conducting ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa in 1991, she began collecting colons, vernacular wooden sculptures depicting African men and women in non-traditional jobs as seamstresses, dentists, attorneys, medical doctors, soldiers, filmmakers, race car drivers, and colonial administrators.

She worked as freelance photojournalist covering guerrilla wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras; military efforts to overthrow the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines; the Moro National Liberation Front separatist movement in Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago;[4] and squatter settlements in the cemeteries of Manila.