[1] She taught at Stickney Memorial Art School for many years, and was a co-founder of The Six Print Club.
[3] She studied under Arthur Millier,[5] Frank Tolles Chamberlin,[6] and Earl Stetson Crawford.
[8] Starting in 1929, Brooks learned etching,[5] and began teaching at Stickney Memorial Art School in Pasadena, California.
[9] In the 1930s, she became known as the "best etchers of trees" nationally, after it was stated a 1936 article in the Los Angeles Times.
[7][10] In 1936, Brooks had a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..[4] During World War II, she left printmaking and started focusing her work in mural painting.