 In 1922, Kingsbury joined the École des Beaux-Arts at Fontainebleau in France, where she studied fresco with Paul Albert Baudouin and sculpture and mural composition with Alfred Janniot.Upon her return to the United States, Kingsbury worked for the muralist Ezra Winter.In 1925, Kingsbury accompanied Winter to Ithaca for a commission by Cornell University for the Willard Straight Hall Mural, during which time she met her husband, Morris Bishop, and moved to Ithaca permanently.