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See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1. https://t.co/RGair4BImp #CaliforniaModernistWomen #FredaKoblick #5WomenArtists #InternationalWomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 17, 2023.

The first woman to graduate from the Plastic Industries Technical Institute in LA, Koblick envisioned plastic as a fine arts medium that could provide exciting possibilities beyond the material’s traditional, industrial applications. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #FredaKoblick This tweet was posted on March 17, 2023.

Koblick found that the control of curvature, plane, and texture was far more precise to accomplish in plastic than with other transparent media such as glass. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #FredaKoblick #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 17, 2023.

Freda Koblick (1920–2011) was a native of San Francisco who pioneered cast-acrylic plastic sculpture. She was fascinated by “the promise and the mystery of transparency” of plastic as art. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #FredaKoblick #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 17, 2023.