Listen as Ruth Asawa explains the progression of her sculpture making. ​ Inspired by a desert plant from Death Valley, she originally created sculptures that closely mimicked the plant forms—including roots and stems. Eventually, she would develop her wire techniques to create a wide variety of wall-mounted and suspended tied-wire sculptures. ​ Explore the breadth of Asawa's sculpture-making techniques in "Ruth Asawa: Retrospective." Get your tickets: https://bit.ly/4hTMUQq _​ [Excerpt from Robert Snyder’s film "Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth," 1978 © Masters & Masterworks Productions, Inc.; Artwork © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., Courtesy David Zwirner] #RuthAsawa #Sculpture #SFMOMA #SanFrancisco #BayArea (fb)

🌄 Find a quiet moment in Chiura Obata's watercolor paintings Obata’s long, influential career as a Bay Area artist and professor. Obata was a Japanese immigrant who arrived in San Francisco in 1903 and spent the next seven decades depicting the natural world around him, from the lakes of the High Sierras to the morning glories blooming at his Berkeley home. In the early 1940s, Obata’s tenure as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was interrupted when he and his family were imprisoned. At Tanforan Racetrack and Topaz incarceration camp, he painted the distraught world around him while founding art schools serving nearly a thousand students. Obata eventually returned to Berkeley, where he resumed his university position until his retirement in 1954. He became a naturalized citizen that year, his faith in California’s “Great Nature” unwavering and his hope in the idea of America still alive. See more of Obata's works in our collection: https://bit.ly/455J7fq [Chiura Obata, "Great Nature, Storm on Mount Lyell from Johnson Peak, High Sierra, California," 1930, Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase © Estate of Chiura Obata; Chiura Obata, "Morning Glories 17," 1934, Collection SFMOMA, Gift of the Estate of Chiura Obata © Estate of Chiura Obata; Chiura Obata, Untitled (Fish, Bottom View)," 1936, Collection SFMOMA, Gift of the Estate of Chiura Obata © Estate of Chiura Obata] #ChiuraObata #AAPIMonth #Watercolor #SanFrancisco #BayArea #SFMOMA (fb)