[4] Stone was a gifted student and attended Central Tech, an arts high school in Toronto.

At the age of sixteen, Stone began supporting herself, working full-time on the night shift at a war plant, so that she could attend school during the day.

[4] She briefly attended the Art Students League and worked as a photographer in a nightclub before marrying a man, whom she would later divorce.

Stone had her first child at the age of twenty two, but continued to attend art classes part-time, to the disapproval of her husband's family.

[6] Her work began to be recognized and shown more frequently, and she shared two studio spaces with Held, in Manhattan and Boiceville, New York.

[4] In 1969, Stone, along with artists such as Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, and Claes Oldenburg, starred in the first Fashion Show Poetry Event, a series conceived of by poets Hannah Weiner, John Perreault, and Eduardo Costa and associated with the St. Mark's Poetry Project.

[4] Her image was included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.