Artist Ruth Asawa believed that art was part of everyday life. She used simple materials to make sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings, and public art. Many of her monuments, which can still be seen throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in California, where she lived and worked, were a result of collaboration in which Asawa invited the local community, especially children, to contribute. Artist and teacher Syd Abady brought that same spirit into a workshop at MoMA with second graders from New York’s public schools. As she explained, Asawa “really did think of [children] as collaborators.” The students made clay sculptures inspired by the parks and neighborhoods where they live in New York. Together, they built a collective artwork made up of many small pieces, just as Asawa did with her students in San Francisco, and this project was featured in the MoMA exhibition “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective.”
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