LIVE AUCTION

LIVE # 1 Board Liquor Cabinet

VALUE $400

This package, donated by Pratt’s Board of Trustees, provides a flavorsome variety of spirits suggested to create sensational cocktails. There is something for everyone in this fantastic selection.

LIVE #2 Donna Prunkard

Party in Polka Dots | $450

Glass | 21 inches | 2023

Donna Prunkard is an instructor at Pratt and loves being part of a student’s first experience with molten glass. The larger beads in this necklace are blown hollow beads; the glass is soda lime soft glass, the chain and handmade clasp are sterling silver. It’s a party in polka dots!

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LIVE #3 Kamla Kakaria

Hiding in Plain Sight | $800

Mixed Media | 18 x 24 | 2021 kamlakakaria@wordpress com

Kamla Kakaria received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Washington. She is the 2D Studio Manager at Pratt Fine Arts Center and Board President of Seattle Print Arts. As an immigrant from India, her work is influenced by memories of the beauty and fragility of India.

LIVE #4 Chuck Lopez

Isos a Retori | $1200

Blown Glass with White Zanfirico Cane | 12 5 x 9 x 3 | 2019

Chuck Lopez is a Seattle-based artist who began working in glass in 1989. He received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, 1995, and an MFA from Alfred University, 1999. He has received grants from Pilchuck Glass School, Artist Trust, and the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts, and he was a co-chair for the 2011 Glass Art Society conference in Seattle. Chuck has been involved with Pratt since 1999, as staff member, instructor, teaching assistant, student, and Artist in Residence.

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LIVE #5 Preston Singletary

Tlingit Berry Basket | $3500

Blown and Sand-Carved Glass | 5 x 6 75 | 2023 prestonsingletary com

Preston Singletary’s art has become synonymous with the relationship between Tlingit culture and fine art. His glass sculptures incorporate Tlingit mythology and traditional designs, which shape his contemporary perspective of Native culture. Throughout his more than thirty years of glassblowing, his works have been featured in the collections of the British Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Heard Museum, the Mint Museum of Art and Design, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution.

@prestonsingletaryglass

LIVE #6 Stephanie Hargrave

Hellebore 2 & 3 (Diptych) | $4400

Encaustic | 24 x 48 | 2023 stephaniehargrave com

Stephanie Hargrave has been working with encaustic, a technique she learned at Pratt, for over 25 years. She has been painting and working in clay since college, where she studied color theory, ceramics, sculpture, drawing, and painting. Stephanie has shown her work nationally; over the past 19 years, she has had 20 solo shows, participated in 13 collaborative two- to three-artist shows, and participated in 79 group shows. Her work was recently accepted into the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s Spotlight group exhibit, scheduled for June 2023. Stephanie recently moved back to Seattle from Brooklyn, New York, and is happy to reconnect with the art community at Pratt.

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LIVE #7 Elizabeth Weber

Festive | $400

Wood | 5 x 6 25 x 4 5 | 2021

Elizabeth Weber is a woodworker and Pratt instructor originally from Tennessee. Festive is a piece of PNW madrone, carved and painted with milk paint, then mended with copper at the rim. The wood for the piece was gifted to the artist by a close friend. Elizabeth uses colors to complete her work and evoke happiness and emotion; she writes, “I believe that color is nature’s way of smiling.”

@icosa_woodworks

LIVE #8 Paul DeSomma

Dual Channel Object | $2000

Hot Glass | 10 x 15 x 3 | 2022 blakerdesommaglass com

Paul DeSomma joined the Seattle glass community in 1986 as a member of William Morris’s team. After decades of Seattle and international affiliations, Paul and his partner, artist Marsha Blaker, opened their hot shop in Santa Cruz, California. This piece is exemplary of Paul’s interest in optical effects in hot glass, eschewing cold working and focusing on optics.

LIVE #9 Dara Solliday

Viaduct 8 (Waterfront in Layers) | $2800

Encaustic Mixed Media on Panel | 30 x 30 x 1 5 | 2019 darasolliday com / @darafrances

Dara Solliday is a Seattle-based painter, maker, drawer, and beloved Pratt staff member. Using encaustic paint as a vehicle for mixed media, her work combines architectural images of land pattern, structure, and urban development into multi-layered views of home and landscape.

LIVE #10 Cappy Thompson & Dick Weiss

Double Portrait | $3400

White Earthenware with Underglaze | 16 x 11 x 4 5 | 2017 cappyanddick com cappythompson com dickweissglass com

Cappy Thompson and Dick Weiss are good friends who have been working as glass artists for forty years. Thompson and Weiss have works in private and public collections internationally. Both have public art installations in stained glass at SeaTac airport. Every December for the last ten years, Cappy and Dick work together at Pottery Northwest. Collaborating has been one of the great pleasures of their creative lives.

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LIVE #11 Anna Skibska

Forget-Me-Not or Remember Me? | $3200

Anna Skibska Technique Painted Glass | 17 5 x 21 5 x 4 | 2023

Anna Skibska studied in the Department of Painting at the Academy of Art in Wroclaw, Poland. She received her diploma in 1984, and the Lifetime Achievement Honeycomb Award in Poland in 2014. She has presented 56 individual exhibitions; the National Museum in Wroclaw, Seattle Art Museum, the Museo del Vetro in Murano, the Museum of Glass and others. Her signature technique, the Anna Skibska technique, was developed in the early part of the 1990s.

@annaskibska

LIVE #12 Lino Tagliapietra

Borneo | $42,000

Blown Glass | 17 x 9 75 x 7 25 | 2008

In 1979, Lino Tagliapietra went to Pilchuck Glass School for the first time and changed American glassblowing forever. A native of Murano, Italy, Tagliapietra apprenticed with a maestro at age twelve, and reached the rank of maestro by the age twenty-one. His work has been exhibited and included in many collections including the Biennale di Venezia, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Lino completed his final blow in winter of 2023.

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LIVE #13 Ginny Ruffner

Untitled | $1900

Oil Pastel, Watercolor | 24 x 18 | 2019 linktr ee/ginnyruffner @ginnyruffner

Ginny Ruffner is a Seattle-based artist best known for her elegant sculptures and mastery of glass techniques. Originally trained at the University of Georgia as a painter, Ruffner has had 88 solo shows, several hundred group shows, and her work is in 55 permanent museum and public collections around the world. She has written two books and been the subject of an awardwinning documentary. Her recent work combines Augmented Reality (AR) technology to create an interactive viewer experience.

LIVE #14 Mary Molyneaux

In the Garden | $1800

Mixed Media - Collage, Drawing, Ink | 36 x 24 | 2015 marymolyneauxart com

Mary Molyneaux’s mixed media paintings occupy the space between abstraction and realism. Molyneaux has been a practicing artist for over thirty years, working in a variety of media including 2D and 3D forms. She has studied at Central Missouri University, University of Tennessee, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, and Pratt Fine Arts Center. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in the Northwest, California, Illinois, Minnesota, and Costa Rica. Molyneaux’s art is in private, corporate, and public collections in the Midwest and West Coast, as well as England, Italy, Sweden, Spain, and the Bahamas.

LIVE #15 Ricardo Duque

Sunset | $2700

Acrylic/Resin | 36 x 36 | 2022 ricardoduque com

Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque is a Seattle-based visual artist. Acrylic paintings are his main medium, though he also makes work with paints, clay, and ink. He writes, “Imagination seems to be bountiful; this dreaming gave me permission to paint with varied media, in different styles, from abstracts to seascapes.” By exploring a classic landscape in abstract application, Ricardo creates intense personal moments and allows the viewer to find themselves in every piece.

LIVE #16 Crista Matteson

Pink Bunny in a Garden | $4000

Kiln Cast Glass | 7 x 13 x 8 | 2020

Crista Matteson’s glass speaks to her love of wild spaces of the Northwest. An accomplished sculptor and graduate of California College of Art, Crista has won multiple awards, had two feature articles in Glass Art Magazine, and exhibits in galleries and museums across the U.S. She’s been a teacher’s assistant at both Corning Museum and Pratt Fine Arts Center. Pink Bunny is from her Kinship series. cristamatteson com

@crista_matteson

LIVE #17 Sabah Al-Dhaher

Nightfall | $3000

Basalt on Marble Base | 20 x 6 x 6 | 2022 sabahfineart com

Sabah Al-Dhaher was born in Nasriyah, Iraq. At age 15, he was accepted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Basra, Iraq, where he received his training in classical art graduating in 1989. He has taught stone carving at at several International Stone Sculptor’s Symposiums. Sabah has been working and teaching at Pratt for more than fifteen years.

LIVE #18 Rickie Wolfe

Bridge-1 | $1400

Metal and Paper | 20 x 11 x 9 | 2022

Rickie Wolfe is a Seattle-based studio artist and teacher. She has a studio practice in printmaking, sculpture, and painting. She is represented by Fresh Paint Art in Los Angeles and Gallery

IMA in Seattle. She received her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. Bridge-1 was an element of her 2022 Shunpike rickiewolfe com / @rickie wolfe

Storefront-Amazon installation, Bridges and Loops. Rickie continues to investigate structures based in nature. She is the Print Studio Coordinator at Pratt Fine Arts Center.

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LIVE #19 Emmanuel (Manolo) Aguilera-Santos

Nopal Maduro (Mature Cactus) | $1700

Blown and Hot-sculpted Glass | 17 x 7 x 5 | 2022 manologlass com

Emmanuel Aguilera-Santos (Manolo) is a Seattle-based glass artist originally from Veracruz, Mexico. For the past 18 years, he has worked as part of Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing team. Manolo’s art incorporates traditional Venetian technique while honoring his heritage and the history of the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec people.

LIVE #20 Angela Scott

Blue Grid | $2800

Oil on Canvas | 48 x 48 | 2020 angelaart org

Angela Scott holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives and works in Shoreline, Washington. Blue Grid is part of a body of work intended as meditative spaces, built with layered washes of oil paint. A balance of linear and organic elements reference order and chaos, nature versus human made, and internal versus external landscapes.

LIVE #21 Makana Cole, Finnegan Fant, & John O’Neil

The Gnomes’ Workshop | $2700

Damascus, Silver, Shibuishi, Brass, Bronze, Steel, Wood | 8 x 12 x 22 | 2023

This collaborative piece between youth artists Makana Cole, Finnegan Fant, and John O’Neil is a functional piece of art based on the prompt, “What does Pratt mean to you?” The Gnomes’ Workshop incorporates a miniature element by each artist, all operated with the turn of a hand crank. The artists made the piece to represent the spirit of collaboration and the joy of their friendship flourishing in Pratt’s metal shop.

LIVE #22 Brandon Bowman

Home Free | $1200

Steel, Brass, Wood, Neodymium | 24 x 10 x 12 | 2023

Brandon Bowman is a blacksmith, welder, and Pratt youth instructor from Seattle, Washington. Home Free represents the spectrum of decisions and emotions related to the chonic housing crisis in America. The work itself contains many deeply symbolic elements, including a precisely fabricated house emulating the standardized values of the American dream. Its brass roof highlights the simple priority of having a roof over one’s head, while the shackle represents the impossibility of choice: to gain freedom one must simply break the chain.

LIVE #23 Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles

Nekanda’s Apprentice | $9000

Blown, Sculpted and Polished Glass, Steel with Patina | 26 x 11 x 9 | 2001 pohlmanknowles com

From their earliest collaborative efforts, Jenny Pohlman and Sabrina Knowles have explored feminine identity, curvature, strength, and plasticity inherent in glass. The narrative sculptures of their Homage series integrate glass forms and fabricated steel mounts. Their intent is to create sculptural forms and assemblages that evoke the sensuous curves of the feminine and engage their viewers in a moment of reflection. Pohlman and Knowles are the recipients of numerous honors, fellowships, and residencies. Their work has been displayed in private, public, and museum collections worldwide.

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LIVE #24 Etsuko Ichikawa

Trace 0312 | $2300

Glass Pyrograph on Paper | 22 5 x 22 5 | 2012 etsukoichikawa com / @etsukomochi

Etsuko Ichikawa is a Tokyo-born, Hawaii-based multi-media artist, filmmaker, and activist. Her glass pyrograph is a fire drawing in which Etsuko uses molten glass as her “brush.” This spontaenous process chars traces of her movement onto paper, capturing and eternalizing a fleeting moment.

LIVE #25 Davide Salvadore

Untitled (Rondelle) | $15,000

Blown Glass | 18 dia | 2023 davidesalvatore com

Davide Salvadore is a Muranese maestro descended from generations of glassworkers. He has collaborated with venerated glasshouses such as Venini, Barovier & Toso, Nason & Moretti, and La Murrina, and his work has been exhibited and collected internationally. For Salvadore, working with glass is a way of life, and reverance for glass and its traditions is inherent in everything he does. He combines traditional Italian techniques and elements in his work, which reflects influences such as Muranese roads and glasshouse smokestacks. This piece was made during his recent Master Artist Workshop at Pratt Fine Arts Center.

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LIVE # 26 Two Alaska Airlines Round-Trip Ticket Vouchers

VALUE $2500

Treat yourself and one companion to two round-trip ticket vouchers on Alaska Airlines worth $1,250 each. Enjoy a trip to any of the 115+ destinations across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica covered by Alaska Airlines. Seating is coach. Expires May 6, 2024.

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