ARTIST TALK: Patti Warashina

Join us for a very special artist talk with the internationally renowned ceramic artist and local superstar, Patti Warashina.

Warashina will discuss her career as a ceramicist and an educator and give a survey of her work through the years. The talk will last for approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes for questions at the end.

Interested in learning from the master herself? Check out her workshop here.

About Patti Warashina

The human figure has fascinated ceramic sculptor Patti Warashina for most of her 55+ year art career. Her sustaining interest in the human figure is likely due to the fact that her own body is the closest resource from which she draws her ideas. The use of the body gives affirmation to Warashina's own daily existence, and serves as the subject of her own “visual diary” which, for Warashina, is a reminder, reflection, and observation of personal time and the civilization in which she lives. Warashina draws from her daily life and has an abnormal interest in the absurdity and foibles of human behavior, in which her figures have become the actors in her introspective narratives.

Patti Warashina was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1940. She earned both her BFA and MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1964. She holds the title Professor Emerita, having retired from the University of Washington after 30 years of teaching.