Education
In addition to meeting her requirements as a teacher, she studied art with the following. Dong Kingman, Don Stone, Eliot O’Hara, Frank Szaaz, Richard Yip, Zalton Szabo, Tony Van Hasselt, and Asertio Pascolini.
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Grace Bilger
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Often signing the name of g.Bilger (and later gStansbury) to her work. Bilger is mainly noted for her watercolor paintings of buildings, landscapes and structures, many of historical significance throughout the mid-west, United States of America. Grace Reeve Bilger (gBilger and g Stansbury) was a resident and artist in Olathe, Kansas from 1941 until 1999. She taught art at the Kansas State School Foreign the Deaf for 25 years.
She traveled the world extensively and sketched in such places as Europe and Mexico as well as throughout the United States of America and Hawaii.
Bilger’s watercolor paintings have been reproduced along with her articles in the Ford Times, NEBRASKALand, and Kansas Magazine. She also produced original historical murals which hung in the Johnson County Courthouse at Olathe.
In 1979 one of her watercolors was selected to be in the exhibition of Eastern Kansas Artists in the Rotunda of the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka, Kansas. "Grace Bilger" day was established June 25, 2007 in Olathe, Kansas to commemorate Olathe"s 150th birthday and Grace"s contributions artistically and historically to the city and county.
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She was a member of the International Society of Artists (Artists" International Association), the Greater Kansas City Art Association, and Tri-County Art League.
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