She is also a 30-year member of the North Syracuse Art Guild; and a member of the Visual Arts Committee of the Cultural Resources Council, Syracuse, NY. This group promotes a juried art exhibition quarterly at the WCNY public television station of Syracuse. Stier had a childhood that included Sunday afternoon rides to her grandfather's farm in Central New York. In the winter she skated on the pond in the pasture, and memories of those days became the inspiration for her imaginative Victorian skater painti