She was a founding member of Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics and the Guerrilla Girls. Throughout her seventy-year career, Stevens made art to combat social injustice and bring about change, elevating the silenced voices of women throughout history. In the last years of her studio practice, she focused on meaningful landscapes, some local. Stevens lived in El Dorado, New Mexico from 1997 until her death in 2019.