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Virginia Weisel Obituary
1923 ~ 1917
Virginia Weisel, an accomplished ceramic artist and sculptor in the Pacific Northwest for many decades, died in Sonoma, CA on June 28, 2017 at the age of 94. Her bright, witty, irreverent, creative spirit will be long remembered by her close Seattle and Sonoma friends, her cousin Thula Weisel, and her five surviving nieces and their families. She was predeceased by her parents, R. Paul and Marjorie Weisel, two sisters and a brother, all of whom she will be reunited with at the Lakeview Cemetery in Seattle. Ashes will also be scattered at the same location as Aurilla Doerner, her life partner who died in 1996.
A graduate of Roosevelt High School and the University of Washington, Virginia received her MA from Mills College in Oakland, CA, before opening her own ceramic studio, The Kiln, in Bellevue, WA and helping to found Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts. Her exquisite ceramic forms, superb craftsmanship and high-intensity glazes gained her a loyal following, garnered many awards and saw her work exhibited at art galleries and museums in Seattle, Portland, Oakland and San Francisco. She began creating sculpture in the 1970s, and her beautiful and graceful forms in wood, stone and metal are found in many private and corporate collections in the Northwest. She was represented by the Foster/White Gallery in Seattle and San Francisco. Her piece "Magnetic Tension" remains on public display at the Bellevue City Center Lobby and several of her ceramic pots are on permanent display at the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmunds, Washington where her pottery and sculpture will be highlighted in a group show of mid-20th century Pacific Northwest artists beginning in January 2018.
Virginia spent the final three decades of her life in Sonoma, CA, where she was embraced by the love of friends and caregivers until her death. Donations may be made in Virginia's memory to the Cascadia Art Museum which will be permanently honoring her legacy of Pacific Northwest art.
Go to www.CascadiaArtMuseum.org/donate.
Please sign Virginia's online Guestbook at www.Legacy.com.
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Phillip Levine
August 3, 2017
Virginia was a long time friend who I met when Virginia was a member of the Northwest Designer Craftsman and I had been doing some ceramics along with my sculpture. The ceramicists in the area were not huge in number in the early '60s so there was ample opportunity to gather at various occasions and personal times. Virginia, as a ceramist and sculptor was a particularly fine all around artist. At the times of the '60s Bellevue Fair, when we both had booths, we shared the experiences during that time. Virginia's skills as an artist were shared with her peers. Her intelligence, warmth and spirit were cherished by her friendship with myself and others. She was a good friend.
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