Ruth Asawa, From Japanese-Internment Camp Prisoner to Art-World Pioneer

Ruth Asawa, From Japanese-Internment Camp Prisoner to Art-World Pioneer

Coinciding with a major San Francisco exhibition, an updated biography of the sculptor chronicles her journey from Japanese-internment-camp prisoner to art-world pioneer By Laura Jacobs “She had survived the Great Depression and World War II, slighted for her gender and interned for her race,” writes Marilyn Chase in the prologue of Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa (2020). “She had toiled in the fields, the studio, and the classroo…