While studying art history and working at MoMA, The Met and Sotheby's; Stoland was taking classes at the Art Student's League on the side.  She soon realized her real passion was for making art.  She returned to pursue a Master's degree at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she began her intensive study of art, craft and the body.  Using her own experiences as a woman and the sibling of a severely head injured loved one, she has examined our society's often uncomfortable relationship with ability, fertility and death through a plethora of media including cast metal, blown and cast glass, photography, watercolor, printmaking and film. 

Stoland currently lives in Venice Beach, CA with her husband and three children.