From Hyperallergic about Marilyn Chase’s new biography of Ruth Osawa: “While raising six children, hosting friends and artists at her home, and spending countless hours making her own art, Asawa also dedicated her career to attending school board meetings and improving children’s experiences of the arts through a grassroots approach.
“Where other people might have spent more time in the studio or [might have] given time and thought and energy and resources toward burnishing their image… she was all about just giving it away,” Chase explained in a phone interview with Hyperallergic. Throughout her text, Chase pulls out important milestones of Asawa’s life, from her experience on the farm with her family to her artistic practice, without romanticizing the difficult times in the artist’s past….
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