Edith Frohock (1917–1997)Ruth Ann Appelhof, Jennifer Orpha Kelly Voices rising: Alabama women at the millennium (catalogue), Alabama Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (2000). was an American artist who lived and worked in Birmingham, Alabama. She 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.Mississippi Art Colony Utica, Mississippi Through the University of Alabama at Birmingham, friends and family endowed the Edith Frohock Scholarship.Edith Frohock Scholarship University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama The scholarship is awarded to a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Fine Arts student in junior standing with a 3.0 grade point average or higher.
Books
Dance-space: Event/installation, 1981, members of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama ASIN: B0007379KY Paper works by Sharon Burg and Marji Clark, 1982, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Visual Arts Gallery) Birmingham, Alabama ASIN: B0007183Y2 UAB Visual Arts Gallery, 1977, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Visual Arts Gallery) Birmingham, Alabama ASIN: B0007181TY Works by Edith Frohock, text by A. Granata, 1987, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Dept. of Art, School of Humanities) Birmingham, Alabama ASIN: B000725CXG UAB Faculty Exhibition: Edith Frohock, Cerise Camille, Janice Kluge, Sonja Rieger, by Dept. of Art, University of Alabama at Birmingham, (Visual Arts Gallery) Birmingham, Alabama, 1984 Works from the Permanent Collection, 1984, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Visual Arts Gallery) Birmingham, Alabama 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 Art, Birmingham, Alabama American Art Directory, 1989, drawings by Edith Frohock, page 257, R.R. Bowker, American Federation of Arts
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