Patti Warashina (born 1940 ) Patti Warashina is an artist from America known for her creative ceramic artwork. She was born in 1940 in Spokane, Washington., the youngest of three siblings. She came to Seattle to study sculpture with sculptors, Harold Myers, Rudy Autio, Shoji Hamada, and Ruth Penington at the University of Washington. Warashina graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1962 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1964.