Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa
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Marilyn Chase, the biographer of San Francisco artist Ruth Asawa (1926 – 2013), will share highlights of her research into the life of the beloved sculptor and advocate for art education. Chase, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal and journalism teacher, spent five years plumbing Asawa’s archives at Stanford University and interviewing more than 80 of her family, friends and colleagues. Her book, Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa, recounts Asawa’s childhood on her parents’ farm in Norwalk, which was interrupted by World War II and the incarceration of Japanese Americans. Transcending trauma, Asawa emerged as a creative force building her studio practice in San Francisco. Her nonstop creative production continued throughout her years in San Francisco, where we savor her rich legacy of fountains, wire sculptures, paintings, prints and work spanning many media as now displayed in Ruth Asawa: Retrospective at SFMOMA.
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