Abstract sculptor Ruth Asawa began making art as a child, leaving marks in the sand with her feet while working on her family’s farm in California. Later, Asawa would continue to draw even while forcibly resettled in various concentration camps alongside fellow Japanese Americans during World War II. Today, Asawa is best known for the three-dimensional use of line in her woven wire sculptures—intricate, organic forms such as Untitled, S.531, Hanging Six Lobed, Two Continuous Interlocking Forms, c. 1950, in Glenstone’s collection. Asawa believed in the power of art to effect social change and was a committed arts and education activist throughout her life.

–Samantha White, from the Glenstone Field Guide