Artist

Patti Warashina

born Spokane, WA 1940
Also known as
  • Masae Patricia Warashina
  • M. Patricia Warashina
Born
Spokane, Washington, United States
Biography

Patti Warashina is an important ceramics artist because of her contributions to the medium as well as her interest in challenging gender barriers. In 1970 she and artist Howard Kottler taught at the University of Washington and were instrumental in helping to build one of the strongest ceramic and sculpture departments on the West Coast. Warashina’s work is often humorous, offering clay figures placed in imagined environments that show her subversive thinking.

Works by this artist (3 items)

Benjamin West, Mary Hopkinson, ca. 1764, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, George Buchanan Coale Collection, 1926.6.1
Mary Hopkinson
Artist
Dateca. 1764
oil on canvas
On view
Benjamin West, Self-Portrait, 1819, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Capitol, 1917.2.3
Self-Portrait
Date1819
oil on paperboard
Not on view
Benjamin West, Helen Brought to Paris, 1776, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1969.33
Helen Brought to Paris
Date1776
oil on canvas
Not on view