Pratt Fine Arts Center

Two more days until Pratt’s 2026–2027 Scholarships + Awards cycle opens on Friday, June 5!

Swipe left to meet Ritu Tilwani (she/her), recipient of the 2025–2026 Seattle Print Arts / Pratt Partners Grant, and learn about what she's discovered over the past several months:

"There is something completely irreplaceable about a shared studio space. Surrounded by instructors and fellow creatives, I'm not just learning a technique, but absorbing different ways of seeing, problem-solving, and interpreting a medium. It has rewired how I approach a block or a plate; I start connecting dots I might not have in isolation. I can fully commit to the discipline of the details, knowing that's exactly where the magic is."

Stay tuned for updates!

ID: 2026-2027 Pratt Scholarships + Awards application announcement.
Image 1: Photo of Pratt 2D Teaching Artist and former Pratt / SPA Partners Grant Recipient, María Zamora () screenprinting in the Print Studio. Photo Credit: .
Image 2: Photo of Ritu Tilwani () and an artwork image of her junco monotype.

POV: waves at you with a radioactive tumbleweed

ID: Artist Resident, Lily Gray, in Pratt's Flameworking Studio holding up their glass tumbleweed (which also lights up!! 😮💡✨)

You looked good at Kaleidoscope: Pratt’s 2026 Fine Art Auction! Check yourself out by downloading your Kaleidoscope photos today at pratt.org/annual-auction or tap the link in our bio! Shout out to Michael B. Maine and Original Studios for catching the magic + energy of the evening ✨

Just a couple days left to catch multidisciplinary artist and former Edwin T. Pratt scholarship recipient, Jennifer Fernandez's solo exhibition, Endurance - now through Sunday, May 31 at !

Endurance Overview:
"Through sculpture and video, Endurance explores a throughline from the age of exploration to the present-day colonization of Antarctica. Named after Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship The Endurance, the show’s title highlights the resilience of the land, ice, and animals that endure despite ongoing environmental degradation in and around Antarctica today."

Learn more about Jennifer Fernandez's creative practice (below):
"Jennifer Fernandez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Shoreline, Washington. Fernandez’s sculptural work has exhibited nationally. Her paintings have shown at various galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as at the Frye Museum Store and are held in collection by the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Her short stories have appeared in the Penn Review, Fjords Review, and Moss, and her creative nonfiction piece "The Cuban Brown Rabbit" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of the Edwin T. Pratt Scholarship, a City of Seattle's Office of Arts & Culture grantee, a Puffin Foundation grantee, and was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center (2023). She is currently working towards her MFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon."

Supported by: The Puffin Foundation and 4Culture ().

Plan your visit today! Gallery hours are Fri & Sat from 12-5 pm.

Location: 5919 15th Ave NW Seattle, WA 98107

ID: Featured artworks by .
Image 1: Endurance – view two featured sculptures and video.
Image 2: Tomb - Tomb, 2025, Red oak, wool, polystyrene, ceramic stoneware.

ID: Pratt Campus Closure: Pratt’s campus will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25,
and reopens Tuesday, May 26.

Mark your calendars: Pratt’s 2026–2027 Scholarships + Awards cycle opens Friday, June 5! Swipe left to meet Max Hautala (), recipient of the 2025–2026 Seattle Print Arts / Pratt Partners Scholarship, and hear how the funding supported their practice:

"The generous monetary gift and printmaking studio time has allowed me to get time on the press and produce my robust body of work for my solo art show. I have received helpful professional guidance from Kamla Kakaria and Kim Van Someren. I have gotten to spend quality time with smart & creative people and gotten to see how they conduct themselves and produce their artwork in a shared studio."

If you're in Milwaukee, WI or plan on visiting soon, be sure to check out Max's exhibition (opening tonight, 5/22!) at Grove Gallery titled, "Max Went West: An American Tale III."

Max shares, "The exhibition will showcase a series of woodcut prints that reflect my wild adventures through the Midwest and West Coast, scenes in which fish embrace warmly, and horses gallop along mountainous landscapes. In this show, you'll meet old friends, new enemies, see a young mouse who can stand tall and witness a cowardly cat getting a new start as a dog."

ID: 2026-2027 Pratt Scholarships + Awards application announcement.
Image 1: Photo of Scholarship + Awards recipients, Ahmoy Lau and Carolanne Sanders Lundgren. Image 2: Photo of Max Hautala and an image of their woodcut print, "Horsebucking."

Sneak peek of Pratt's Glass Study Abroad program in Niijima, Japan co-taught by renowned Japanese artists Osamu Noda and Yumiko Noda (happening now!)

More photos to come - stay tuned! 🔥🔥🔥

ID: Students at work in the Hot Shop during Pratt's Glass Study Abroad program in Niijima, Japan.

Dear Stakeholders, Partners, and Community-

Jessica Borusky, Pratt's Executive Director, will be stepping down from their role on June 29th to pursue a new position at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham as Executive Director.

Since January 2023, Jessica's leadership at Pratt has been instrumental in advancing community-centered programming, board development, and fundraising, while balancing Pratt's budget post-pandemic. We are grateful for their leadership and dedication to Pratt's mission and values and wish them the best in the next chapter of their career.

During the transition to new leadership, Natalia Torres, Deputy Director of Programs, People + Culture, will step into the Interim Executive Director role.

ID: Photo of Natalia Torres (left) and Jessica Borusky (right) during Pratt's Open House. Photo Credit: .

Get your final bids in before the Online Auction closes today, May 11 at 11:59 PM (PDT)! Bid Now: https://ow.ly/sb0F50YWUu4

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