and at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington in 2013. Awards and recognition Warashina is nationally recognized for her work. In 1994, she was elected to the American Craft Council's College of Fellows. She received the Twining Humber Lifetime Achievement/Woman of the Year Award in 2001 from Seattle's Artist Trust and earned the University of Washington Division of the Arts Distinguished Alumna Award in 2003. In 2005, Warashina was interviewed for Smithsonian's Archives of American Art which also holds a number of her papers in its collection. United States Artists awarded Warashina a 2018 USA Fellowship. In October 2020, Warashina won the Visionary Award from the Smithsonian Craft Show. Works City Reflections (2009), Portland, Oregon Grants 1975: National Endowment for the Arts 1978: Ford Foundation References External links Convertible Car Kiln, 1971, work in the Smithsonian American Art Museum Oral history interview with Patti Warashina, 2005 Sept. 8, Archives of American Art Patti Warashina at the American Museum of Ceramic Art 1938 births Living people American women ceramists American ceramists Artists from Spokane, Washington University of Washington alumni 20th-century American women artists 20th-century ceramists 21st-century American women artists 21st-century ceramists