Publications


2025

Working Through It: Women and Their Art
John Natsoulas Press. Catalog from exhibition by the same name at the
Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
March 5 - April 5, 2025

Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life Over 50
Edited by Sharon Louden. Published by Intellect, the University of Chicago Press.
Copyright 2025.

2024

Ceramics Now Weekly (online version of Ceramics Now) Featured Artist,
November 19, 2024.
www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/patti-waras…

Kyra Goedken, Japanese American Patti Warashina's 'Woman With Pear' to be installed in former Trent Alley Spokane's original melting pot
Spokane Spokesman-Review, November 1, 2024
www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/nov/01/j…

Chey Scott, Remembering Trent Alley: Art and signage commemorating the history and contributions of Spokane's early Japanese residents installed at Saranac Building
The Inlander, November 7, 2024
www.inlander.com/culture/art-and-signag…

Susan Platt, IE Contributor, Catching up with wildly original Seattle-based ceramic sculptor Patti Warashina
International Examiner, Aug. 7 - Sept. 3, 2024
iexaminer.org/catching-up-with-wildly-o…

Hannelore Suderman, Golden Grad: Ceramic Artist Patti Warashina didn't originally plan for a life in the arts. We're glad she ended up there. Photos by Ron Wurzer.
magazine.washington.edu/feature/ceramic…

UWAA Golden Graduate Award. University of Washington Magazine (Hard copy). Summer 2024 Issue, (Page 38)
issuu.com/uwalumni/docs/uw_magazine_sum…

Alexandria Osborne, Smithsonian Award-Winner, Other Favorite Local Artists Featured in First Friday This Week. The Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA.

Gayle Clemans, 5 highlights from Seattle Art Museum's Fun 'Poke in the Eye' exhibit.
Seattle Times, Sunday, July 14, 2024
www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visu…


2023

Ilsy Jeon, Exploring the World Upside Down With Patti Warashina
MOCA-NY, August 30, 2023.
explore.moca-ny.org/2023/08/30/explorin…

Tao Woolfe, Boynton Beach: Controversial sculpture puts arts board autonomy at risk. The Coastal Star, Florida. August 30, 2023
thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/boynt…

Frank Cerabino. Public art in Boynton Beach triggers MAGA uprising over artist's unrelated views on Trump.
Palm Beach Post, August, 23,
news.yahoo.com/public-art-boynton-beach…

Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture. Catalog for exhibition of same name. Published by Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY.
thestore.madmuseum.org/collections/cata…

Funk. John Natsoulas Press, Copyright 2023. 215 page book on the Funk Movement, with forward by John Natsoulas.
www.shop.natsoulas.com/john-natsoulas-p…
ISBN 979-8-89034-419-9

Robert Pfannebecker: Friend and Collector of the Arts. Catalog from exhibit at R & Company by same name, Feb. 2 - April 14, 2023.
r-and-company.com/exhibition/34897-2/

“Seattle’s Patti Warashina contemplates ‘the disharmony of human nature’ with her art, by Gayle Clemmons, July 28, 2023, Seattle Times, Art & Entertainment section.

Clemmons, Gayle, “Artist Patti Warashina finds playful edge to world’s problems” seattletimes.com, July 27, 2023.
www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visu…

Cerabino, Frank, “Public art in Boynton Beach triggers MAGA uprising over artist’s unrelated views on Trump”
Palm Beach Post, August 23, 2023,
news.yahoo.com/public-art-boynton-beach…

Jeon, Ilsy, “Exploring the World Upside Down with Patti Warashina”
MOCA-NY.org, August 30, 2023,
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Woolfe, Tao, “Boynton Beach: Controversial sculpture puts arts board autonomy at risk” August 30, 2023. thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/boynt…

SADA Seattle Art Dealers Association, August 2023. Full color photo of “Wild Blue Yonder” (2022) on second to last page in Traver Gallery ad for upcoming exhibit (Aug. 3 - Sept. 2, 2023)

Susan Kunimatsu, “Ceramics of Disaster”
International Examiner, August 11, 2023
iexaminer.org/ceramics-of-disaster/


2022

American Craft (Summer 2022)
"Congratulations to the 2022 ACC Awardees"
Pages 24-25
www.craftcouncil.org/magazine?id=5060

CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS of the John Natsoulas Gallery,
Copyright 2022 - John Natsoulas Press, Davis, CA.
www.shop.natsoulas.com/john-natsoulas-p…

American Craft Council: 2022 Year In Review.
Mentioned as winner of the ACC Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship on page 23.

Spokane + Coeur d'Alene Living (May, 2022)
Homecoming for a Queen
by Marshall Peterson
(Pages 22-25)
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Art Chowder Arts & Culture Magazine (May/June 2022)
"The vast surreal world of Patti Warashina ceramics"
by Robin Bishop
Featured on Cover and Pages 70 thru 77
www.artchowder.com

The Spokesman-Review (June 3, 2022)
%'Masae 'Patti' Warashina, 82, is 'the Queen of Northwest Ceramics'
by Audrey Overstreet for the Spokesman-Review Arts & Culture
Pages 4-5
www.spokesman.com

Inlander (June 2-8, 2022)
Lifetime Achievement: Internationally celebrated ceramic artist Patti Warashina returns to city of her youth
By Carrie Scozzaro
Page 29
www.inlander.com/spokane/ArticleArchive…

Patti Warashina
John Natsoulas Press
Published in Hard Back 2021
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Patti Warashina
John Natsoulas Press
Published 2020
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The wonder of Patti Warashina
University of Washington Magazine, March 2020
magazine.washington.edu/feature/the-won…

Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom
Published by American Museum of Ceramic Art, 2012
amoca.org