Everything She Touched

This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination in the face of intolerance and transformed everything she touched into art. Ruth Asawa was raised on a California farm, survived the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, and attended the groundbreaking art school at Black Mountain College. She went on to develop her signature hanging-wire sculptures, create iconic urban installations, revolutionize arts education in her adopted hometown of San Francisco, fight through lupus, and defy convention to nurture a multiracial family.

In this deeply researched and compellingly written biog­raphy, Marilyn Chase draws on letters, diaries, sketches, and interviews. Richly illustrated with 70 reproductions of Asawa's art and archival photos of her life, this book is both beautiful and inspiring.