She has written a biography of the art dealer Richard Bellamy, as well as feature articles regarding artists including Jo Baer, Red Grooms, Lester Johnson, Alfred Leslie and Jay Milder.
Between 1983 and 1995, Stein served as Contemporary Curator for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art,[1] where she organized traveling mid-career surveys for Red Grooms and Horace Pippin,[2] a site-specific installation by Bettye Saar; as well as exhibitions for Tom Butter, Louise Fishman, Mike Glier, Lois Lane, Ray Metzker, Pepon Osorio, Judy Pfaff, Jody Pinto, Raymond Saunders, Joyce Scott, Judith Shea and Toshiko Takaezu.
As the Consulting Curator for the Pennsylvania Convention Center since 1995, she has supervised commissioned works by Jones and Ginzel, Mei-ling Hom, Judy Pfaff, John Scott, among others.
With Paul Schimmel, Stein co-curated Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988) for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, which traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA and the McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX.
[8] Stein has contributed essays to Grandma Moses in the Twenty-First Century (2001), Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century (1998), The Power of Feminist Art (1995),[2] Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (1993) and Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream 1970-1985 (1989).