In conjunction with Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art

Ruth Asawa was probably unaware that she was flouting an artistic tradition that considered sculpture as a primarily masculine enterprise. Instead of creating pedestaled works of stone or bronze, Asawa selected wire as the material to create her most memorable works, which she then hung from the ceiling as if suspended in mid-air. Art Historian Laura Meyer, assistant professor, Department of Art & Design at California State University, Fresno, talks with artists Anna Sew Hoy, Elizabeth Turk, and Yuriko Yamaguchi about the gendering of sculpture to challenge notions that associate art with masculinity and craft with femininity. Reservations recommended.