Family, schooling, farm life in Southern California; WWII internment; education at Milwaukee State College; Josef Albers and Black Mountain College; marriage, to architect Albert Lanier, and family; development of wire sculpture; decision making and art in the San Francisco schools: mosaics, play-dough, and community involvement; principles of synergistics, stacking and sharing; city and state art commissions, panels, and conferences; artists and society; awards; travels to demonstrate techniques. With a supplementary interview conducted in 1979 with husband ALBERT LANIER on architecture, gardens, and the individual.
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Art, Competence, and Citywide Cooperation for San Francisco
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Asawa, Ruth and Albert Lanier. "Art, Competence, and Citywide Cooperation for San Francisco." Interview by Harriet Nathan in 1974 and 1976. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1980. Interview date(s) 1974
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