[3] When she returned to San Francisco, Allison worked as a commercial designer at Foster & Kleiser advertising company.
[2][3] When she was returning to work after a period of maternity leave, Allison took adult education classes in jewelry and studied under Loyola Lawson Fourtane (1899–1976) of Sausalito.
[2] She was part of the group exhibition, Jewelry by Peter Macchiarini, Vera Allison, and Irena Brynner (1952) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA).
[9][10] In 1976, she served as a jury member for the 30th Annual Art Festival (1976) in Civic Center, San Francisco.
[12] Her artist files are located in the Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library in Washington, D.C.[13][14]