In a 1955 review of Ruth Asawa’s gossamer hanging wire sculptures at Peridot Gallery in New York, Time magazine identified the San Francisco artist as a “housewife and mother,” and reduced a ...

In 1946, frustrated by the racism she experienced as she sought to become a teacher, artist Ruth Asawa enrolled at Black Mountain College, a cauldron of creativity that attracted some of the most ...

Liza Kirwin explores an early and important exhibition of Ruth Asawa’s sculptures, held at Ankrum Gallery in 1962. Liza Kirwin Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.557, Wall-Mounted Tied Wire, Closed Center Twelve ...

Known for her abstract looped wired sculptures and an epic bronze fountain, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa was honored today with a Google Doodle. The tech company’s illustration kicks off ...

This sensitive biography of artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) begins by describing how an “invisible line divided Ruth’s two worlds”—her life at home and Japanese classes, and her life at American ...

The sculptor of sublimely coiled wire helped erase boundaries between art, craft and the decorative arts. A long-awaited show of drawings at the Whitney explores her luminous connections. By Nancy ...

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! To celebrate the contributions of Asian Americans, The Center for Global Education has launched a new series called, Spotlight on Asian Pacific Americans.

May marks the start of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, and Google celebrated by dedicating its Google Doodle to artist Ruth Asawa. In the Doodle, which appears above the search bar on Google’s ...

Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa. This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed ...