If you visit San Francisco, be sure to stop by the Asawa Fountain near Union Square. Ms. Asawa asked hundreds of school children to mold images of the city out of dough. She then cast the dough images into iron and incorporated them into the fountain. It is really a fun piece of sculpture, but see it soon. According to what I’ve read, Apple, Inc., wants to move the fountain to make way for a plaza.
In 1939 Ms. Asawa won an art contest in her high school on what it means to be an American with her drawing of the Statue of Liberty. After Pearl Harbor she was detained in a horse stable at Santa Anita with other Americans of Japanese descent and eventually interned in a camp in Arkansas.
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