The San Francisco School Board will consider adding a bond measure on the November ballot for capitol improvements worth $1.7 billion. The plan does not include any monies for the construction of ...

San Francisco artist Ruth Asawa was announced as one of the recipients of the National Medal of Arts, the highest award conferred on artists and arts patrons by the United States. President Joe ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has received a $1.5 million grant from Google.org — the largest corporate grant in the institution’s history for a single exhibition — in support of ...

The sculptor of sublimely coiled wire helped erase boundaries between art, craft and the decorative arts. A long-awaited show of drawings at the Whitney explores her luminous connections.

More than 100 Ruth Asawa School of the Arts students, faculty and parents protested at the district offices on March 26.

She lived to see the school renamed the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in 2010. Asawa maintained that artists weren't special; they were just ordinary people who could “take ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art devotes an expansive exhibition to the Japanese-American artist, admired for her ...

In the 1980s through the early 2000s she focused her energy on building a public high school for the arts in San Francisco. In 2010 the school was renamed for her and is now the Ruth Asawa San ...

Imagination, courage, persistence, passion, dedication - all qualities essential to succeed in an arts discipline, and, in life as well. Young artists at School of the Arts study to understand the ...

Asawa was also instrumental in creating the public arts-focused high school now known as the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.