Patti Warashina papers

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Patti Warashina papers

circa 1900-1991

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The Patti Warashina papers measure 4.8 linear feet and date from circa 1900 and 1957 through 1991 (bulk 1970-1989). The collection documents the artistic and teaching career of Seattle-based sculptor and ceramicist Patti Warashina predominantly through correspondence and printed material reflecting the many ceramic and craft exhibitions and other projects Warashina participated in throughout the United States, and her associations with other ceramicists. Also included are biographical documents, writings, art works, several photographs, and a video.Biographical material includes family trees, diplomas, awards, and documents relating to Warashina's family Japanese internment during WWII. Correspondence, 1968-1991, relating to exhibitions and other projects, is with galleries, museums, purchasers, publishers, and others, among them the Lee Nordness Gallery (N.Y.), Morgan Gallery (Kansas City), and Theo Portney Gallery (Seattle). Additional correspondence files contain letters received, 1977-1990, many addressed to Warashina and her husband Bob (Robert Sperry), from friends, colleagues, former students and family members, including Nancy Carmen, Anne Currier, Deborah Horrell, Matthew Kangas, Howard Kottler, Marvin Lipofsky, Michael Lucero, and others.Ten photographs, circa 1900-1944, are portraits of Warashina's relatives and family, and several snapshots, circa 1970s, are of former students and works of art. Printed material, 1961-1990, includes newspaper and magazine clippings, programs, journals, newsletters, exhibition announcements, exhibition catalogs, and workshop announcements for Warashina's various sculpture and ceramic lectures. Writings include both published and unpublished works by Warashina, including an artist's statement for a possible lecture at the 1986 conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Also found here are handwritten notes on a panel discussion titled Cultural and Racial Heritage: Sources and Imagery in which Warashina was a participant along with artists Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, María Brito Avellana, and Indira Johnson. Art work consists of blue line drawings for her sculpture "Red Earth," 1986 as well as a pen and ink sketch of Warashina by an unidentified artist. A videocassette, 1987, is of the television program "The Big A: Different Ways of Seeing", in which Warashina appears briefly.

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Warashina, Patti, 1940-

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Ceramicist and sculptor Patti Warashina was born in 1940 as Masae Patricia Warashina in Spokane, Washington to third generation Japanese emigrants. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she studied with sculptors Robert Sperry, Harold Myers, Rudy Autio, Shoji Hamada, Shinsaku Hamada, and Ruth Penington. She received her first solo exhibition in 1962 at the Phoenix Art Gallery in Seattle the same year she graduated with an M.F.A. from...

Lipofsky, Marvin, 1938-2016

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Marvin Bentley Lipofsky was an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963. He was a central figure in the dissemination of the American Studio Glass Movement, introducing it to California through his tenure as an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley and the California College of Arts and Crafts. ...

Lee Nordness Galleries

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Closed ca. 1966 when Lee Nordness Galleries Art Advisory Section, Inc. was established. From the description of Lee Nordness Galleries records, 1960-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220151746 ...

Currier, Anne, 1950-

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Anne Currier (1950- ) is an artist and professor of art in Scio, N.Y. Mary Drach McInnes (1956- ) is an art historian from Alfred, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Anne Currier, 2006 May 22-June 16 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220228567 ...

Sperry, Robert, 1927-1998

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Ceramist; Seattle, Wash. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Sperry, 1983 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 422875675 From the description of Robert Sperry interview, 1983 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220183647 Robert Sperry (1927-1998) was a ceramist from Seattle, Wash. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Sperry, 1983 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613315477 Ce...

Kottler, Howard, 1930-1989

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Ceramicist; Seattle, Wash. Kottler spent the majority of his career teaching at the University of Washington. His work was inspired by popular cultural themes such as cartoons and comic books, but speak widely to a range of art historical topics, as well as philosophical ideas about the self and the world. From the description of Howard Kottler papers, 1925-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84653638 ...

Lucero, Michael, 1953-...

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Michael Lucero (1953- ) is a ceramist from Upper Nyack, N.Y. Jo Lauria (1954- ) is a curator and arts writer from Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Michael Lucero, 2008 Feb. 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 226956616 ...