Alice Viola Guysi
As Detroit's public schools' director of art, she shaped art education in the city for decades.
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Guysi was born in Cincinnati and studied with William Sartain in New York and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. She showed at the Paris Salon in 1891 and 1892 and at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
She came to Detroit in 1896 with her sister Jeanette, taught pastel and miniature painting at the Detroit Museum of Art, and worked in Detroit Public Schools from 1903 to 1934 as director of art.