Golden Graduates

Golden Graduates Brunch

Sat. June 1, 2024      10 a.m–1 p.m.

Museum of Flight, Skyline Room

The UW Alumni Association invites all Huskies who graduated 50 or more years ago to gather together and celebrate your enduring Husky connection at the Golden Graduates Brunch. Join us at Seattle’s Museum of Flight for a buffet brunch, a chance to reconnect with your classmates, and plenty of Purple Pride.

$35 UWAA Members | $40 General Public

On-site parking and access to museum exhibits included

Golden Graduate Distinguished Alumna: Patti Warashina, ’62, ’64

The UW Alumni Association is pleased to honor ceramic artist Patti Warashina, ’62, ’64 with the 2024 Golden Graduate Distinguished Alumna Award. Highly regarded for her artistry, as well as her interest in challenging gender barriers, Warashina’s work is often humorous, offering clay figures placed in imagined environments that reflect her subversive thinking. In 1970 she joined the University of Washington faculty and, together with fellow ceramic artists Robert Sperry, Howard Kottler, and later, Jamie Walker and Akio Takamori, was instrumental in helping to build one of the strongest ceramic and sculpture departments on the West Coast — a legacy that lives on today.

Read more about Warashina’s career in this 2020 UW Magazine profile.

Presenter: Jamie Walker, ’81

Jamie Walker has been a UW faculty member since 1989. He holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at the UW. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions across the United States. Collections owning his artwork include the Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Racine Art Museum and the International Museum of Glass. Walker is currently the director of the UW School of Art + Art History + Design.

Learn more about Walker at his UW faculty page.