Episode 729
Ruth Asawa
Thu, 2019-May-02 01:37 UTC
Length - 1:33
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With 276,382 views on Wednesday, 1 May 2019 our article of the day is Ruth Asawa.
Ruth Aiko Asawa (January 27, 1926 – August 6, 2013) was a Japanese-American sculptor. Asawa's work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Fifteen of her wire sculptures are on permanent display in the tower of San Francisco's de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Asawa was an arts education advocate and the driving force behind the creation of the San Francisco School of the Arts, which was renamed the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in 2010 in tribute to her.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:37 UTC on Thursday, 2 May 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Ruth Asawa on Wikipedia.
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