# @sfmoma on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DBuK0XST_6L
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/60452545-sfmoma-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-10-29T20:25:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** SFMOMA (@sfmoma) — https://gondola.cc/sfmoma

## Caption

Celebrate local legend Ruth Asawa in the first national and international major retrospective of her career

In “Ruth Asawa: Retrospective,” explore sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings, design objects, and archival materials that showcase how her San Francisco home and garden became the center of her creative universe. Best known for her looped-wire sculptures, her works bridge the gap between art and craft, redefining sculpture in the 20th century.​

The presentation will highlight the artist’s collaborative and inclusive spirit, which shaped her numerous public sculpture commissions and fueled her dedication to arts advocacy—including co-founding the first public arts high school in San Francisco, Alvarado School Arts Workshop, now the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. Asawa was recently posthumously awarded a 2022 National Medal of Arts.

“Ruth Asawa: Retrospective” will open on April 5, 2025. Read more about the Bay Area artist’s upcoming exhibition at the link in bio.

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Ruth Asawa (second from left) with visitors to her exhibition Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective View, San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA), 1973. Photograph by Laurence Cuneo​; Asawa and her granddaughter Emma Lanier with Japanese American Internment Memorial (PC.011), 1990–1994 ​Bronze. Commissioned by the City of San José. 300 South First Street5, San José; Photo by Henrik Kam #RuthAsawa #SanFrancisco #BayArea #BayAreaArt

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