# @sfmoma on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJR4Nr3Jh2B
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33376510-sfmoma-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-05T16:55:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** SFMOMA (@sfmoma) — https://gondola.cc/sfmoma

## Caption

This Teacher Appreciation Week, we’re celebrating artists who teach—and teachers who inspire. 🎨🍎

In the 1960s, Ruth Asawa turned her creativity toward San Francisco’s classrooms, co-founding the Alvarado School Arts Workshop with fellow parents to bring hands-on art education to kids citywide. One of her go-to materials? Baker’s clay—made from simple kitchen ingredients to encourage communal making and creative play.

Asawa believed, “Art teaches discipline, craft, respect for tools and for sharing, and finally, self-respect.” Through workshops and public sculptures—like her “San Francisco Fountain,” cast from 41 baker’s clay panels created with local residents—she showed how art could be a shared act of learning and belonging.

💬 Tell us: Is there a teacher who made a lasting impact on your life? Tag them or share your story below.

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Get inspired by Ruth Asawa’s legacy at “Ruth Asawa: Retrospective” on Floor 4!

Photo 1: Photo © Rondal Partridge Archives. Artwork © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., Courtesy David Zwirner; Photo 2: Photo courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.
#TeacherAppreciationWeek #RuthAsawa #ArtEducation #BayAreaArt #SFMOMA #ThankATeacher #ArtForEveryone

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