This Album of Painted School Stage Curtains documents 13 painted stage curtains dating from the 1930s to the 1950s that have not previously been inventoried or studied. Friends of Gillespie County Country Schools began the 2013  project with a professional assessment and conservation assistance provided by 60 volunteers at the Willow City School.

They studied the known remaining painted school stage curtains in our county. Their purpose was to conserve and protect these fragile curtains and to answer basic questions, such as their age, who made them, how much they cost, who paid for them, and how these little country schools had such extraordinary stage curtains.