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PBS has created a video with interviews with Ruth Asawa Exhibition Co-Curator Janet Bishop, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Artist Paul Lanier, Asawa’s son; and Henry Weverka, Asawa’s grandson and head of Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.
Really, anything could be a viable material for art for Asawa … She had a very open, experimental, kind of expansive vision of what art could be. To me she is absolutely one of the most accomplished artists of the 20th century. — Curator Janet Bishop
If one piece came out really great, she wouldn’t copy it and do it again, but she would learn from it and then make — try something else to learn from one shape and take it into the next shape that she was doing. — Paul Lanier
When I was a kid, it was just always interesting to go over my grandmother’s house to see what was going on. And it was either drawing, painting, folding paper, making dill pickles, squeezing orange juice, whatever it was. There was always something being made.
— Henry Weverka
