Known for her innovative wire sculptures; Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Her father was incarcerated, and the rest of her family were sent to a detention center in California, and later to an internment camp in Arkansas. A few years later she was accepted at Black Mountain College where she was encouraged to create her beautiful wire sculptures. This graphic biography portrays the life of Ruth Asawa in art and photographs.
