On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, allowing the US government to designate areas where Japanese Americans were not permitted to reside—the majority of the West Coast, excluding Hawaii—and areas from which, once moved by the US government, they would not be able to leave without the permission of the Secretary of War.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forced to abandon their homes, jobs, and the majority of their belongings and transferred to ten concentration camps (alternately called internment camps, evacuation centers, and relocation centers by the US government) was Ruth Asawa who was incarcerated at the age of sixteen with her family at Santa Anita Racetrack and later at The Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Although later Asawa became known for her biomorphically abstract woven wire sculptures, while at the camp she studied with Walt Disney Studios animators who were interned alongside her, and dev...