Edith Frohock
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Edith Frohock was an American
artist
who lived and worked in Birmingham
, Alabama
. Frohock specialized in painting
, printmaking
and artist's books and was the first instructor to teach book arts in the South.
Frohock was part of the Mississippi Art Colony where she was the featured instructor in 1984. The Smithsonian lists the Colony as the country's oldest artist-run organization of its kind. Other notable instructors include Larry Gens Anderson, Frances de LaRosa, Moe Brooker, Howard Goodson, Fred Mitchell (artist)
, Shirley Romer, Alvin Sella, Barbara Gallagher, Auseklis Ozols
, Johnnie Winona Ross and Hugh Williams.
Through the University of Alabama at Birmingham
, friends and family endowed the "Edith Frohock Scholarship". The scholarship is awarded to a bachelor of art or fine art student in junior standing with a 3.0 grade point average or higher. Sara Garden Armstrong
replaced Frohock on her retirement.
Frohock was part of the Mississippi Art Colony where she was the featured instructor in 1984. The Smithsonian lists the Colony as the country's oldest artist-run organization of its kind.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
who lived and worked in Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
, Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
. Frohock specialized in painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
and artist's books and was the first instructor to teach book arts in the South.
Frohock was part of the Mississippi Art Colony where she was the featured instructor in 1984. The Smithsonian lists the Colony as the country's oldest artist-run organization of its kind. Other notable instructors include Larry Gens Anderson, Frances de LaRosa, Moe Brooker, Howard Goodson, Fred Mitchell (artist)
Fred Mitchell (artist)
Fred Mitchell belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world...
, Shirley Romer, Alvin Sella, Barbara Gallagher, Auseklis Ozols
Auseklis Ozols
Auseklis Ozols is an American painter and fine arts educator, based in New Orleans, Louisiana.Ozols was born in Latvia in 1941. He moved to the U.S...
, Johnnie Winona Ross and Hugh Williams.
Through the University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
, friends and family endowed the "Edith Frohock Scholarship". The scholarship is awarded to a bachelor of art or fine art student in junior standing with a 3.0 grade point average or higher. Sara Garden Armstrong
Sara Garden Armstrong
Sara Garden Armstrong is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Armstrong creates sculptures, paintings, drawings from miniature to wall size, artist's books, multimedia artworks involving computers sound and light, and constructs permanent installations in atrium spaces...
replaced Frohock on her retirement.
Books
- "Dance-space: Event/installation," 1981, Members of the Birmingham Museum of ArtBirmingham Museum of ArtFounded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...
, Birmingham, AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaBirmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
ASIN: B0007379KY - "Paper works by Sharon Burg and Marji Clark," 1982, University of Alabama at BirminghamUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamThe University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
(Visual Arts Gallery) Birmingham, AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaBirmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
ASIN: B0007183Y2 - UAB Visual Arts Gallery," 1977, University of Alabama at BirminghamUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamThe University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
(Visual Arts Gallery) Birmingham, AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaBirmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
ASIN: B0007181TY - "Works by Edith Frohock," Text by A. Granata, 1987, University of Alabama at BirminghamUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamThe University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
(Dept. of Art , School of Humanities) Birmingham, Alabama ASIN: B000725CXG - "UAB Faculty Exhibition: Edith Frohock, Cerise Camille, Janice KlugeJanice KlugeJanice Kluge is an American artist who specializes in large and small scale sculpture. She hold a BFA with honors from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and an MFA for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kluge is Professor Emeritus of sculpture and drawing at the University of Alabama...
, Sonja Rieger," by Dept. of Art, University of Alabama at BirminghamUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamThe University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
, (Visual Arts Gallery) Birmingham, AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaBirmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
, 1984 - "Works from the Permanent Collection," 1984, University of Alabama at BirminghamUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamThe University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
(Visual Arts Gallery) Birmingham, AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaBirmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
ASIN: B0007188KG - "German Masters of Twentieth Century Art [and] Contemporary German Artists by Museum of Arts," 1976, Essays by Ellen de M. Weiland, Barita Ann Rivenbark, Edith Frohock, Charlotte Gafford and Margaret D. Sizemore Birmingham Museum of ArtBirmingham Museum of ArtFounded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...
, Birmingham, AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaBirmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S... - "American Art DirectoryAmerican Art DirectoryThe American Art Directory is a yearly publication covering art museums, arts centers, and art educational institutions as well as news, obituaries, book and magazine publications, etc. related to the artistic community in the United States. Established in 1898, it was originally entitled American...
," 1989, drawings by Edith Frohock, Page 257, R.R. Bowker, American Federation of ArtsAmerican Federation of ArtsThe American Federation of Arts is an organization in the United States of museums and other entities involved in the arts. It was established in 1909 at a convention held in Washington, D. C. from May 11–13 of that year called by the National Academy of Art. The concept for the organization was...
Frohock was part of the Mississippi Art Colony where she was the featured instructor in 1984. The Smithsonian lists the Colony as the country's oldest artist-run organization of its kind.
External links
- "Book Arts: Four Approaches" 1991 collaboration with Mary Ann SampsonMary Ann SampsonMary Ann Sampson is an American artist living and working in Ragland, Alabama. Sampson is a Book artist, specializing in miniatures and broadsides most of which are uniques or one-of-a-kinds. She explores the book as a means of expressing visual ideas that stem from recollections of personal...
, decorative papers and binding by Paula Marie Gourley, University of AlabamaUniversity of AlabamaThe University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....
, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. - Application For The Frohock Scholarship
- Methodology of "skinning the (CAT)Tt lists Edith Frohock as a correspondent to this project