Stella Bloch's artistic career lasted over 80 years and reflected her appreciation of African-American culture, Asian culture, and dance. Bloch studied dance in the Far East, and was one of Isadora Duncan's first students. She began exhibiting her artwork in New York City and Boston in 1919.

Bloch and her family returned to New York and Harlem in 1950, where she painted and drew scenes of daily life near Central Park. They moved to Newtown, Connecticut in 1964.

Stella was one of Isadora Duncan's six original dance pupils, and continued to teach Duncan dance throughout the 1920s. During this period she also made trips to the Far East and learned Balinese, Hindu, Japanese, and Javanese court dances. Her life in dance was reflected in her art. She also sketched and painted many of the dancers, musicians, and singers of the Harlem nightclubs. By the 1930s she was a writer and director in Hollywood. During the 1940s she resumed painting street life in Harlem. Her drawings of a Ballanchine ballet appeared in Dance Magazine (1953)

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