A Life Made by Hand introduces Ruth Asawa, a beloved figure in the San Francisco Bay Area art world and a tireless educator who worked in the public schools of San Francisco. It addresses her family?squo;s internment during WWII, and her time spent studying with Anni and Josef Albers, and Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and alongside Robert Rauschenberg, Viola Farber, Cy Twombly, Ray Johnson, and Dorothea Rockburne at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina.