[Manish Jain]

Ruth Aiko Asawa was born in 1926 into a farming community in Southern California.
Ruth graduated from high school at a camp in Rohwer, Arkansas. After receiving a scholarship, she studied to become an art teacher at Milwaukee State Teachers’ College in Wisconsin 
In 1948, in the spirit of experimentation encouraged at the College, Asawa decided to try sculpture. She proposed a project that involved making sculptural pieces out of wire using the basic technique she had learned from villagers in Mexico. The loop became the technique she used to fashion all her sculptural pieces, looping copper or brass wire into imaginative forms and shapes. From this point on, sculpture became her primary expression, although drawing always remained important. 

Technical drawings for Asawa’s Aurora(Aurora Fountain) San Francisco, California 1985. 
Courtesy Estate of Ruth Asawa

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