Gender Alchemy is transforming art for the 21st century
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Asawa frequently cited her memories of growing up on a farm in California as an inspiration for her work. She was born to Japanese immigrant parents, and during World War II she and her family were sent (1942) to internment camps, first at the Santa Anita Park racetrack and later to Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Her formal art training began at the Santa Anita camp, where she learned to draw from several Japanese American animators for Walt Disney Studios. Asawa enrolled at Milwaukee State Teachers College, Wisconsin, in 1943 with the help of a Quaker organization, but she was unable to complete her degree because animosity toward her Japanese heritage prevented her from student teaching. From 1946 to 1949 she attended Black Mountain College, in whose innovative arts program she studied under such renowned teachers as Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers as well as weaver Trude Guermonprez. In 1949 she married architect Albert Lanier, whom she had met at Black Mountain College