NEW
Font size
WorksheetsRuth Asawa
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Ruth Asawa was born in:
Oakland, California
Honolulu, Hawaii
Norwalk, California
Tokyo, Japan
Ruth Asawa's family came from
Korea
China
Hawaii
Japan
Ruth Asawa is best known for:
Carving sculptures out of marble
Creating sculptures out of whatever she had at hand
Creating paintings
Creating traditional Asian art
Ruth Asawa advocated for:
LGBTQIA Rights
Black Lives Matter
Better Access to Arts Education in Public Schools
Women's Rights
Ruth Asawa created a series of large sculptures based on
origami
Japanese food
human figures
animals
Ruth Asawa learned how to make crocheted wire baskets in
Japan
Mexico
Burkina Faso
West Virginia
Ruth Asawa created two huge origami-inspired fountains to be installed in:
Osaka, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Hokkaido, Japan
Japantown, San Francisco, USA
Ruth Asawa's origami fountain prototypes were made out of
metal
wood
clay
paper
Ruth Asawa learned to make art from whatever materials she could find because she and her family were
forced to live in a Japanese internment camp during WWII
living at a time before you could buy art supplies on Amazon
very poor
trying to save the environment
Ruth Asawa went to college at
UC Berkeley
Black Mountain College
Cal State East Bay
Harvard
