Lillian Drilling Ashton Brooks

Background

Brooks, Lillian Drilling Ashton was born on May 27, 1921 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Walter Brian and Lillian Church.

Education

Student, Grand Rapids Junior College, 1941. Student, Wayne State University, 1942. Student, Grand Rapids Art Institute, 1949.

Student, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969. Student, Loyola Marymount College, Westchester, California, 1973. Life teaching credential, University Southern California, Long Beach, 1973.

Career

Decorator John Widdicomb Furniture Company, 1945-1949. Teacher art Inglewood School District, California, 1965-1973. Teacher adult education art Downey Unified School District, 1973-1995.

Teacher art Association Retarded Citizens and Mentally Disadvantaged Students Downey Community Health Center, 2003—2004. Art teacher institutionalized adults ages 18 to 60, 2000-2004. Lecturer Downey Art League, 1990-1992, Whittier (California) Art Association, 1991, high school and middle school lecturer, 1994-1995.

Judge Children's Art Exhibit, Downey, 1992. Participant Getty Foundation, San Francisco, 1993, Getty Foundation, Cranbrook, 1994, Getty Conference on Aesthetics, 1995, Cincinnati University, 1992, El Segundo, 1994. Member state accreditation committee Inglewood and Downey United School district, 1966-1970, 75-80, 85—.

Owner A & B Furniture Service Center, since 1995.

Achievements

• Life teaching credential, California.

Works

• Other Work

  • One-woman shows include El Segundo Municipal Library., 1965, Pico Rivera Art Gallery, 1978, Downey Art Museum, 1999. Exhibited in group shows at Fairlane Show, Dearborn, Michigan, 1959, Jane Lessing Art Gallery, 1966, Westchester Municipal Library., 1971, Inglewood City Hall, 1973, Aegina School, Greece, 1973, Downey Museum Art, 1992, 99-2000. Represented in permanent collection University Michigan, California Senate Building.

Membership

President board directors Downey Art Museum, 1996-2002, director Museum, 1998, volunteer director, 1999, board directors 1998-2000. Art commissioner City of Dearborn, Michigan, 1954-1959. Former president Dearborn Art Institute, Pacific Art Guild.

President Downey Art League, 1991-1994, vice president, 1999-2000. President Exhibition Church, 1995, vice president 1996-1998. Volunteer director Art Museum, 1998-1999.

Lecturer on art as a career local Downey high and middle schools. Juried children's art shows. Volunteer teacher basic art.

Judge art shows. Member California Council on Art Education (parliamentarian Downey 1990-1992, Calco Excellence in Teaching award 1991, various certificates).

Interests

• Reading, hiking, international travel, photography, painting.

Connections

Married Frederick Morris Drilling, 1942 (divorced April 1972). Children: Frederick Walter, Stephen Charles, Lawrence Alan, Lynn Anne. Married Richard Moreton Ashton, August 25, 1973 (deceased 1990).

Married Ralph J. Brooks, May 21, 1994.

Father:

Walter Byron Church

Mother:

Lillian Brocker Church

Spouse:

Frederick Morris Drilling

Spouse:

Richard Moreton Ashton

Spouse:

Ralph J. Brooks

child:

Frederick Walter Drilling

child:

Stephen Charles Drilling

child:

Lawrence Alan Drilling

child:

Lynn Anne Drilling