FEATURED WORKS : Patti Warashina
Patti Warashina (American, b. 1940)
Bonded Flight, 2005 Bronze, 18x14x32”
Collection Tweed Museum of Art, UMD Marguerite L. Gilmore Charitable Foundation Fund
Patti Warashina
Patti Warashina – The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
Hear from artist Patti Warashina as she discusses her time at Sitka Center and comments on her Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency 20th Anniversary Folio experience.
Sitka Center celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency by inviting 9 artists from the annals of the residency to return to the Sitka Center and create a special celebratory folio of work.
This residency was established in 2002 to provide working artists with little or no printmaking experience the opportunity to explore a new creative medium with guidance, instruction and technical assistance from a professional etching printer.
This special 20th Anniversary Folio features artists: Baba Wagué Diakité, Linda Hutchins, Dana Lynn Louis, Ryan Pierce, Heather Watkins, Marie Watt, Sabina Haque, Patti Warashina, Larry Thomas and Master Printer, Julia D’Amario, created the 10th print in the folio.
This folio of prints was displayed at Waterstone Gallery in Portland, Oregon in February of 2021 and now is on display at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology main campus office.
Learn more about Sitka Center and its programs here on our website:
www.sitkacenter.org
Learn more about Jordan Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation here on their website:
www.jordanschnitzer.org
This video was produced by Colin Stapp at Colin Stapp Photography and Video. Learn more at this website:
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Patti Warashina – Reflections on 50 Years of Work
This video explores the work of Patti Warashina. I have selected pieces that I admire and feel represent her well as a ceramic artist. My responses are based on what I see in the work, rather than on an artist's statement or critic's review. This video is intended to be an overview of her work rather than a critical analysis of a few pieces. That said, what I show is only a fraction of her entire body of work. I have left out pieces that others might say are among her major contributions. So, if you enjoy this video, I encourage you to further explore her work.
Patti Warashina Advantages Slipcasting
Artist talk with Patti Warashina discussing the advantages of slipcasting and other things as she demonstrates building one of her cat sculptures.
Wit and Wisdom in the Work of Patti Warashina
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch presented the 2020 Smithsonian Visionary Award to Seattle-based artist Patti Warashina in a virtual event on October 13. The award recognizes and honors Warashina for her achievements in ceramic sculpture.
The Smithsonian Visionary Award, established in 2014, is given annually to American artists deemed by experts in the field to have achieved the pinnacle of sculptural arts and design. Albert Paley, Wendell Castle, Toots Zynsky, Dale Chilhuly, Faith Ringgold and Joyce J. Scott are previous recipients.
Seattle’s Public Art: Patti Warashina
Ceramic sculptor Patti Warashina has received several awards including the 2002 Twining Humber Lifetime Achievement Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences in 2003. Produced for the Seattle Channel by John Forsen with support from the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. Originally air date: 5/26/2009
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Meet the Artist: Patti Warashina
All rights reserved. ©2013 Museum of Glass
Visiting Artist Residency: Patti Warashina
Dates of the residency: March 13-17, 2013
All images courtesy of the artist. Directed by Derek Klein
Executive Director: Susan J. Warner
MOG Hot Shop Team: Benjamin Cobb, Gabe Feenan , Niko Dimitrijevic and Sarah Gilbert
MOG Hot Shop Interpretive Staff: Greg Owen, Walter Lieberman
The Visiting Artist Residency program is sponsored by Courtyard Marriott -Tacoma Downtown
During Patti Warashina's long and celebrated career, her ceramic figures and objects have blended realism with wit and satire. The body is almost always at the center of these narratives of the absurd, serving as a marker of the physical and psychological, of events both political and personal. Though her medium is ceramics, Patti brings an incredible artistic voice to the medium of glass.
Patti Warashina
Being an artist was not the career Patti Warashina's parents had in mind for her when she was growing up in Spokane. Warashina enrolled at the UW intent on becoming a dental hygienist. However, one day she took a required elective in beginning drawing. Another art class introduced her to clay. That did it! She switched majors and went on to become one of America's foremost ceramic artists.
Patti Warashina, Professor emerita