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Further development of her talent came at Black Mountain College, where she studied with Joseph Albers and Buckminster Fuller. The artist asserts that the ideas of these two men gave her the strength to keep on her own identity and pursue her own ideas rather than more conventional ones. 

Over the past dozen years, Asawa has accomplished many sculpture commissions, several of which have received local and national acclaim. She is by now nearly a public institution in San Francisco, where she lives and works and where her most famous creations are.

Her flamboyant bronze fountain sculpture at Ghirardelli Square, for which she life-cast a friend for mermaid figures and wire-crocheted the tails, is one of the city's most beloved artis[[strikethrough]] i [[/strikethrough]]tic landmarks. Her already famous fountain for the new Hyatt House on Union Square is a composite work by many hands. More than 250 people aged 3 to 90 were invited to make individual dough additions to her panorama [[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]] of the city. When it was completed, the 41 panel bas-relief was cast in bronze and left unsigned by Asawa in honor of her many helpers. 

She has served as a "soft [[strikethrough]] b [[/strikethrough]] voiced but outspoken exponent of quality" for the past five years on the Art Commission of the City. She views her work as Art Commissioner as a means to bring art to more people, particularly in the city's public schools. She is the author of a unique program with parents, teachers and children all working together to beautify the schools through art and gardening projects. In the 1972-73 [[strikethrough]] 2 [[/strikethrough]] school year, the Board of Education granted $30,000 to the project for seven schools. And has upped that to $70,000 for the current year

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