Pratt Fine Arts Center @ 50

Part of Handwork 2026

This exhibition opens during Bainbridge Island’s First Friday Artwalk on October 2 from 5-8 PM.

Pratt Fine Arts Center (Pratt), located in Seattle’s Central District, has been a community arts hub for the past fifty years. Pratt serves artists of all ages and abilities, year-round, with affordable classes and studios. Initially established by the City of Seattle, Pratt was named for the civil rights leader Edwin T. Pratt, a civil rights activist in Seattle and the Executive Director of the Seattle Urban League who was murdered in 1969.

This group exhibition includes more than seventy-five artists working in diverse media such as glass; sculpture in metal, stone, wood, and mixed-media; jewelry art; paper and felt-making; and 2D art including drawing, painting, and printmaking. Featured artists include former and current instructors, students, board members, and staff. This show celebrates and spotlights the impact that Pratt artists and supporters have made in the broader region since 1976.

Header image: Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles, Beth’s Tapestry, 2006. Blown, sculpted, sandblasted glass, metals, beads, photo by Russell Johnson.

When

Oct 2, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027

Participating Artists Include:

Daniel Adams
Rob Adamson
Jite Agbro
Sabah Al-Dhaher
Cecelia Alvarez
Wendy Armstrong
Bill Baber
Susan Balshor
Theresa Batty
Sonja Blomdahl
Nancy Bonnema
Ross Brown
Tamara Buchanan
Romson Bustillo
Mark Calderon
Judith & Dan Caldwell
Larry Calkins
Nancy Callan
Lee Campbell
Virginia Causey
Cathy Chase
Andy Cooperman
Mary Coss
Norman Courtney
Virginia H. Davison
Bruce de Ste. Croix
Marita Dingus
Lynn Di Nino
Angie Dixon
Fritz Dreisbach
Viss Ellis
Esther Ervin
Jeanne Marie Ferraro
Mark Fessler
Jenny Fillius
Lisa Geertsen
Zia Gipson
Carla Grahn
Lauren Grossman
Joan Hammond
Lisa Hasegawa
Eva Isaksen
Cynthia Hibbard
Roger Horner
Nikki Jabbora-Barber
Steve Jensen
Kamla Kakaria
Layne Kleinart
Barbara Kolar

Susan Kunimatsu
Walter Lieberman
Micki Lippe
Rob Lutz
Nick Lyle
Paul Marioni
Jane Martin
Crista Van Slyck Matteson
Kim McIntyre
Paul D. McKee
Carol Milne
Janis Miltenberger
Mary Molyneaux
James Nelson
Ed Archie NoiseCat
Robin Oakes
Wendy Orville
Berkeley Parks
Maria Phillips
Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles
Peter Reiquam
Kait Rhoads
Jane Richlovsky
Julia Ricketts
Barbara Robertson
Lynda K. Rockwood
Joan Stuart Ross
Paul Rucker
Mark Rudis
Kathy Ross
Laura Sindell
Anna Skibska
Catherine Eaton Skinner
Ramona Solberg
Julie Speidel
Charles Spitzak
Cappy Thompson
Tip Toland
Kristin Tollefson
Cynthia Toops
Gerard Tsutakawa
Kim Van Someren
Dr. James W. Washington Jr.
Dick Weiss
Ann Welch
Diana Wendt
Walter White
Jean Whitesavage
Rickie Wolfe

Crista Van Slyck Matteson (Seattle), Land of Falling Water, Headpiece, 2026, Flame worked glass, pate de verre glass, beads, mixed media, Private Collection.

Crista Van Slyck Matteson (Seattle), Land of Falling Water, Dress, 2026, Flame worked glass, pate de verre glass, silkscreened and enamel painted glass, hand dyed and block printed silk, and beadwork.

Kristin Tollefson (Bainbridge Island/Tacoma, WA), Bulb and Bloom, 2005, Steel wire and plastic beads, Sears-Buxton Collection, Promised Gift to BIMA, Courtesy of the Artist

Gerard Tsutakawa (Seattle, WA), Lady of Spain, 2011, Bronze, BIMA Permanent Art Collection, Gift of Anne Gould Hauberg

Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles, Beth's Tapestry, 2006 Blown, sculpted, sandblasted glass, metals, beads, photo by Russell Johnson.

James Minson (Australia/Seattle, WA), Perpetuum Vitae, Lampworked glass, 26"h x 26”w 11"d, BIMA Permanent Art Collection, Gift of Lee & Stuart Rolfe, photo by Laura Zander

Cynthia Toops (Seattle, WA), Dust If You Must, 2010, Vintage watch case, brush, pencil, antique Chinese silver chain, BIMA Permanent Art Collection, Gift of Charyl Kay Sedlik & Earl Sedlik

Cynthia Toops (Seattle, WA), Dust If You Must (detail), 2010, Vintage watch case, brush, pencil, antique Chinese silver chain, BIMA Permanent Art Collection, Gift of Charyl Kay Sedlik & Earl Sedlik