Comments on: My Michigan

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:23:18 +0000

I remember seeing her in the 60’s walking through her print shop. She was bent over and walked with a cane. I thought she was ancient
then.
They say she wrote her own epitaph: I was doubly blessed; I was happy and I knew it.

By: ScentScelf

ScentScelf — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:46:11 +0000

Just to clarify…Gwen actually lived into her nineties, but died in April of 2001.

By: sosser

sosser — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:36:16 +0000

i love gwen frostic’s work and michigan and i have been trying to get up to her studio for years. this book is gorgeous. maybe it will have to do for now…

By: danica

danica — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:33:34 +0000

i’ve seen her work before (and admired it very much) but never realized that she was in her 80’s, or that she’d been around for such a long time. i love that for some reason. and i love everything about this book. even if it wasn’t about my home state!

By: ScentScelf

ScentScelf — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:47:23 +0000

Gwen Frostic the person was, and the studio still is, a Michigan institution. She left the Detroit area and set up shop in what was essentially the middle of nowhere, because she found it beautiful. What others find in locations like Santa Fe, she found in NW Michigan, and specifically had her studio built to take in the view and incorporate the landscape. (The studio is on a river, and sometimes you can find live frogs inside, along with the tree roots, etc.)

At one point, you could still (with permission) see Gwen’s original blocks for her prints. You can watch the old presses at work, and sit in the archive room and go through a large selection of prints she created. The last time I saw her, she was in her 80’s, and still going strong.

Great blog–glad I discovered it!

By: yasmine

yasmine — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:09:46 +0000

oh, i was recently introduced to her work, and it’s just absolutely gorgeous.

michigas is also absolutely gorgeous :)

By: jinnie

jinnie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:28:19 +0000

I have the Those Who See book, and it’s really worth every penny. Every page is so beautiful and wonderful to touch.. makes me want to collect them all!

By: natalie

natalie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:46:58 +0000

My mom stumbled on Gwen Frostic’s workshop on a road trip around Michigan back in the 90s when Gwen was still alive and running her own printshop. Our family treasures our Gwen Frostic books, cards and (dwindling supply of) wrapping paper…

By: Abi

Abi — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:31:28 +0000

Yum! Flat planes of colored ink make me wanna lick ‘em.