Background
The youngest of three children, Warashina was born and raised in Spokane, Washington.
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Patti Warashina
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She received her B.F.A in 1962 and M.F.A in 1964 from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she studied with sculptors Robert Sperry, Harold Myers, Rudy Autio, Shōji Hamada, Shinsaku Hamada, and Ruth Penington.
Career
As an art student at the University of Washington in the 1960s, Warashina noticed that the environment in the ceramics studio included a somewhat macho culture. Women were not included in technical discussions relating to managing the kiln. She began creating a series of figurative works that used humor to skewer this gender imbalance in the field
In 1962, Warashina had her first solo exhibition at the Phoenix Art Gallery in Seattle.
Warashina"s first husband was fellow student Fred Bauer, and from 1964 to 1970 exhibited as Patti Bauer. She 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.
In the 1970-1980s, Warashina, Sperry, and Howard Kottler ran the ceramics program at the University of Washington"s School of Art, growing it into one of the best-known in the United States. In 2012, American Museum of Ceramic Art introduced a retrospective exhibition "Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom" in Pomona, California and in 2013, the Bellevue Arts Museum showcased "Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom."
1975: National Endowment for the Arts
1978: Ford Foundation.
Politics
Warashina’s work is often humorous, and includes "clay figures placed in imagined environments that show her subversive thinking." She uses sculpture to explore such themes as the human condition, feminism, car-culture, and political and social topics.
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