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Stanford, CA | Curator-Led Tours of “Archive Room: Ruth Asawa” & “Archive Room: Ester Hernandez”
August 14 | 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Join ArtTable at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center for a curator-led tour of Archive Room: Ruth Asawa with Kathryn Cua and a curator-led tour of Archive Room: Ester Hernandez with Jorge Eduardo Sibaja.
Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was a Japanese American artist and arts advocate who worked to integrate arts education into the standard curriculum of San Francisco’s public schools. Although Asawa is best known for her looped-wire sculptures, Archive Room: Ruth Asawa explores her lifelong dedication to arts activism through selected projects from the Alvarado School Arts Workshop curriculum, an artist-in-residence program she cofounded with architect and fellow parent Sally Woodbridge at Alvarado Elementary School in 1968. The teaching materials, workshops, and collaborative projects presented in this compact, single-gallery presentation explores Asawa’s belief that art is essential to cultivating a fuller sense of self.
San Francisco Mission District-based artist Ester Hernandez (b. 1944) is a celebrated Chicana printmaker and storyteller. In iconic works such as Sun Mad, she deftly weaves urgent, incisive commentary with a bold visual language. This single-gallery presentation highlights a selection of artwork, writing, and other ephemera from the artist’s archive at Stanford Special Collections. The grouping of material reveals that Hernandez’s artwork and sociopolitical convictions have walked in lockstep since the very beginning of her career, shaped by her family’s background as farmworkers in California’s raisin belt in San Joaquin Valley, where she was born, and Hernandez’s own life experiences.
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Image: Ruth Asawa teaching geometric patterns with milk cartons, c. 1981. Courtesy Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc.
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