While visiting family in San Francisco, I visited some of the city’s public artworks by Ruth Asawa, one of the artists featured in NMWA’s exhibition Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![A black-and-white photograph of Ruth Asawa holding one of her large, wire crochet sculptures, draped over her shoulder and in both hands. She is a light-skinned, Asian, adult woman with black hair and blunt bangs.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/3-Asawa-Ruth_HoldingSculpture-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1.png)
Learn more about Ruth Asawa's hanging sculpture, Untitled (S.407) (ca. 1952), which is on view in the NMWA exhibition Pathmakers through February 28, 2016.
![A black-and-white photograph of Ruth Asawa holding one of her large, wire crochet sculptures, draped over her shoulder and in both hands. She is a light-skinned, Asian, adult woman with black hair and blunt bangs.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/3-Asawa-Ruth_HoldingSculpture-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1.png)
NMWA’s latest exhibition, Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today, is now open! Museum staff have been busy transforming the 2nd-floor galleries to display more than 80...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-15-700x330.jpg)
Ruth Asawa (b. January 24, 1926) had no ordinary childhood. During World War II, at the age of 16, Asawa and the rest of her family were taken from their...
![A black-and-white photograph of Ruth Asawa holding one of her large, wire crochet sculptures, draped over her shoulder and in both hands. She is a light-skinned, Asian, adult woman with black hair and blunt bangs.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/3-Asawa-Ruth_HoldingSculpture-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1.png)