Patti Warashina's works are in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
11 Facts About Patti Warashina
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The youngest of three children, Patti Warashina was born in 1940 and raised in Spokane, Washington.
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Patti Warashina's father was a dentist, born in Japan, and her mother was Japanese-American.
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Patti Warashina moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, where she studied with sculptors Robert Sperry, Harold Myers, Rudy Autio, Shoji Hamada, Shinsaku Hamada, and Ruth Penington.
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Patti Warashina earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1962 and her Master of Fine Arts in 1964, both from the University of Washington.
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Patti Warashina began creating a series of figurative works that used humor to skewer this gender imbalance in the field.
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In 1962, Patti Warashina had her first solo exhibition at the Phoenix Art Gallery in Seattle.
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Patti Warashina began teaching in 1964 and has taught at Wisconsin State University, Eastern Michigan University, the Cornish School of Allied Arts, and the University of Washington.
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Patti Warashina's artwork was included in a survey of ceramic Funk Art organized by Arizona State University's Ceramic Research Center in Tempe, Arizona titled, Humor, Irony and Wit: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties and Beyond in 2004.
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In 2005, Patti Warashina was interviewed for Smithsonian's Archives of American Art which holds a number of her papers in its collection.
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In October 2020, Patti Warashina won the Visionary Award from the Smithsonian Craft Show.