Sandra Sokol

Sandra Sokol (February 14, 1935 - December 23, 2007) was an artist, chef and art and orchid collector.

Sokol was the daughter of Max Sokol and Sara Rogoff Sokol. Sokol graduated from Ramsay High School. She went on to Mt Vernon Junior College in Washington, D. C. and received her BA from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She received a Masters of Art degree from University of Louisville.

She collected and promoted the work of many local and national artists. Sokol collected a number of each artists work including the work of Frank Fleming, Mitchell Gaudet, Tony Buchen and Jasmine Goodwin, Roberta Eichenberg, Karen Graffeo, Chris Clark, Jon Coffelt, Patrick Martin and Tracy Martin among many others. Besides her interests in the visual and culinary arts, Sokol was an avid orchid collector with well over 250 plants in her collection. Sokol volunteered much of her time to the orchid room of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

Point of interest

As a child, Sokol was given a pet tiger for her birthday and once it was too large to handle at home she and her family donated it to the Jimmy Morgan Zoo soon to become the Birmingham Zoo. It was Birmingham's first tiger.