Kids Book Club: A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa (November 2025)

Kid's Book Club meets at The Center every fourth Sunday of the month from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.  The program includes a book, a gallery tour, and an art-making project.  November's Book is A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa About the Book: Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was an influential and award-winning Japanese American sculptor and devoted activist who tirelessly advocated for arts education. A Life Made by Hand tells the story of this pioneering artist, whose work is collected in major museums around the world. Inspired by the world around her, Asawa saw beauty in the ordinary: the webs of spiders, wings of insects, and drops of water found in the garden on the farm where she spent her childhood. She studied at the historic Black Mountain College, an unusual school filled with brilliant thinkers like herself. “An artist,” she said, “is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” Andrea D’Aquino’s lush collages and engaging text celebrate Asawa’s remark