The Life of Ruth Asawa - Virtual Silent Book Club with Marilyn Chase

Author and journalist Marilyn Chase discusses the life and work of American sculptor Ruth Asawa in this virtual Silent Book Club recorded on May 19, 2020. Chase's book, Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa, recounts the life of the Japanese-American artist from her childhood on a farm in Southern California to a WWII-era internment camp in Arkansas to Black Mountain College, where she studied with Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, and a cohort of luminaries including Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage. Asawa settled in San Francisco with her husband, architect Albert Lanier, where she raised six children and created an unforgettable body of work that is now on display in museums, galleries, and public squares.

Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa, by Marilyn Chase (Chronicle Books)