Tag: Japanese Internment

• The Veiled Genius of Ruth Asawa

  Ruth Asawa’s art celebrates diversity of style and technique.  Drawing from illustration, painting, dance, basket weaving, music and pottery, her multi-disciplined approach to art was nurtured as a student at Black Mountain College in the late 40’s.  Her introduction to art however, came to Asawa under less than auspicious circumstances. During WW II Asawa’s entire…

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  March 2, 2016

  Art, Collecting, Contemporary Art, sculpture, Uncategorized

  Black Mountain College, Civic Art, Fountains, Hammer Museum, Japanese Internment, Leap Before You Look, Ruth Asawa, San Francisco, Sculpture