​Join us online on Tuesday January 6th for an illuminating 1-hour lecture on the pioneering artist Ruth Asawa, gaining background, context, and deeper appreciation for the artist and her work ahead of our in-person tour of the Asawa exhibition at MoMA later in the month.

​Asawa is best known for her ethereal looped‑wire and tied‑wire sculptures — delicate, organic forms that hang in space like living drawings, transforming light, shadow, and space itself.

​She developed her unique visual language beginning in the late 1940s and early 1950s, drawing inspiration from natural forms, geometry, and traditional basket‑weaving techniques she observed during a trip to Mexico.

​Over decades her practice expanded to include tied‑wire works, prints, drawings, and even public‑art fountains — always with a belief in art’s power to connect people, environment, and community.

​This lecture by Dr. Jennie Hirsh of Aesthetic Adventurer will offer both a thoughtful overview of Asawa’s artistic journey and a virtual exploration of the upcoming retrospective at MoMA (which we'll be touring as a group before it closes on Feb 7th).

​We’ll also reflect on how Asawa’s commitment to arts education and public engagement shaped her legacy as an artist deeply invested in community and access to creativity.

​​​Tickets:

​​FREE for Art-full members!

​​Non-members: $10 per person early bird through 12/27;
$15 thereafter

​Learn more about membership and sign up here.

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​More about the Lecturer:
Jennie Hirsh (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College) is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

​With postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Columbia universities as well as support from institutions including the Fulbright Commission, the Mrs. Giles Whiting, and the Wolfsonian FIU, her research spans visual culture, critical theory, museum studies, and architecture.

​For the past two decades, she has led bespoke tours of art and architecture in Italy, France, and the US, and delivers lectures and seminars on art, architecture, film, and design, offering sophisticated yet accessible insights into cultural history, curatorial practice, and place.

​An interdisciplinary scholar and thinker, Jennie has co-edited Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (Ashgate & Routledge) and Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art (Routledge), in addition to collaborating on curatorial projects and authoring dozens of scholarly essays for exhibition catalogues and journals.