Parlor Artwork: Doug Billings

Works on Paper: A Printmaker in Kansas

Doug Billings was born, a twin and an air force brat, in Landstul, Germany.  His father was a Master Sergeant and career military man.  Doug and his family: mother, three brothers and a sister, lived in Europe till his father's death.  They moved to their original hometown of Marshfield, Wisconsin, where Doug graduated from high school with a passion for the arts, humanities and golf.

In college, Doug's fascination for art took precedent over his other interests and he graduated with a BFA in  Printmaking from Mankato Sate University, Minnesota.  He was accepted into the printmaking graduate program at Wichita State University by the prominent and respected printmaker, Prof. David Bernard, and graduated with his MFA degrees in 1982.

Since then, Doug ahs continued to work steadily at this profession as an artists/printmaker.  He has become a well-known fixture in the printmaking department at Wichita State taking full advantage of the excellent facilities during the evenings and weekends.  Starting out working mainly as an intaglio printmaker, he gradually turned his attention to the lithograph as hi major 'artistic medium.'

During the past 28 years, Doug has exhibited his work throughout the United States in a wide variety of different venues; including over 30 International and National Juried exhibitions, and over a dozen Art Galleries and Art Consultant/Corporate Art Sources.  Regionally, he has shown work in numerous private art galleries, public "art spaces" and colleges.

He is a member of Gallery XII , a Wichita artist's cooperative gallery, and was also a member and former President of the Artists Guild of Wichita.  Doug is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) in New York, the Boston Printmakers in Boston, MA, the American Print Alliance in Peachtree, Ga. , and the Color Print Society in Princeton, NJ.

Currently Doug is offering classes in Printmaking at the Wichita Center for the Arts.