[3] After leaving Portland, she briefly taught in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before continuing her education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1915-1918.
While studying at the SAIC, Norma Bassett met and would later marry Arthur William Hall, a fellow student and artist known today as an etcher and watercolorist.
[5] Following their marriage, Norma Bassett and Arthur Hall made their home in Kansas, becoming deeply involved with the state's flourishing printmaking culture and helping to found the Prairie Print Makers.
Hall, the only female among the group's eleven charter members, designed their distinctive logo—a monogram set within a stylized sunflower.
[3] Like many members of the Prairie Print Makers, Hall and her husband divided their time (and their landscape subjects) between the rolling hills of Kansas and the dramatic vistas of New Mexico.