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Fifteen sculptures by an artist of this ethnicity are housed in the Education Tower of the de Young Museum, and that artist of this ethnicity gave her untitled sculptures identifiers starting with S and a three-digit number, and descriptions often referring to their “lobes” or “spheres.” (-5[1])Another artist of this ethnicity exhibited an abstract, eight-piece marble sculpture called Kouros at the MoMA in 1945. While studying at Black Mountain College, (10[1])an artist of this ethnicity (10[1])used basket-weaving techniques (10[1]-5[1])she learned (10[2])in Toluca, (-5[2])Mexico to make hanging wire sculptures. (10[2])Another artist of this ethnicity created a public sculpture of a giant red cube (-5[1])with a hole through it, and also designed lantern-like folded paper lamps, as well as a (-5[1])ballet set featuring a rocking (10[1])chair. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[2])name this ethnicity (10[1])of Ruth Asawa and Isamu (10[2])Noguchi. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Japanese-American [prompt on Japanese by asking “what was their nationality?”; prompt on Asian-American]
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