[2][3] She was one of twelve children brought to the United States in 1881 on board the liner, Strassburg, by her parents Franciszek, a wood carver, and Katarzyna Kurkowski.
Żukotyński, an artist born in Poland, taught Stanisia to paint religious art, including murals.
[3] She studied murals with John W. Norton, landscape with Frank Charles Peyraud, figure painting with Wellington J. Reynolds, and portraiture with Leopold Seyffert.
[1] She painted a large central panel for an altarpiece at the Basilica of St. Hyacinth, based upon a work designed by Zukotynski there.
[3] She also did works for the Churches of St. Stanislaus Kostka and Holy Cross in Chicago, which are built in the so-called Polish Cathedral style.
[3] Around 1926 Stanisia completed a Stations of the Cross cycle on the South Side of Chicago for St. Margaret of Scotland Church.
[3] In 1929 she established an art department at Mount Mary College, part of her congregation in Milwaukee, while continuing to direct the program in Chicago.
[5] Her paintings included, Portrait of Bishop John F. Noll, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, St. Theresa, the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The American Art Society commissioned her to paint a portrait of Pope Pius XI, which hung at the former Holy Family Academy in Chicago.