Artwork copyright Patti Warashina. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Catch of the Day, 1996

Patti Warashina
American (born 1940)

Location: Montesano Junior-Senior High School, Montesano

About the Artwork

The painting Catch of the Day by artist Patti Warashina represents a departure from the artist's ceramic sculptural works and is part of her series of narrative compositions on paper. This piece explores man's relationship to nature, and Warashina notes "the net is a symbolic fulcrum and man-made tool signifying the balance of behavior, the proliferation of man, as well as the protection of nature."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Montesano School District.

About the Artist

Patti Warashina was born and grew up in Spokane, Eastern Washington. She graduated from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and moved to Seattle, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (1962) and a Master of Fine Arts degree (1964) from the University of Washington. She originally planned to become a dentist, but a ceramics elective course resulted in her changing her major to Art. She taught art at the University of Washington from 1970 to 1995. Warashina received the 2002 Twining Humber Award for lifetime artistic achievement and her art is in many museums across the United States.