Endowment Gifts at Work

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS A few of the books supported by the Naomi B. Pascal Editor’s Endowment. ENDOWMENT GIFTS AT WORK THE EDITOR WHO INSPIRED AN ENDOWMENT Naomi Pascal’s high school Lévi-Strauss’ “Saudades do Brasil,” a classmates voted her “most likely to photographic memoir of the famed become a Supreme Court Justice.” anthropologist’s ethnographic work Instead she turned her considerable among that country’s Indigenous talents to publishing. In her 53 years communities, to Margaret Willson’s as an editor at UW Press, including “Seawomen of Iceland,” a finalist nearly 30 years as editor-in-chief, for the 2017 Washington State Pascal helped turn the press into a Book Award. It features memoirs leading publisher of books by and by Native American leaders and about people whose communities scholars, including Lawney Reyes have too often been marginalized. (Colville), Harriette Shelton Dover (Tulalip) and Virginia Beavert When Pascal retired in 2002, (Yakama). It also includes the the press established the Naomi stories of Chinese immigrants B. Pascal Editor’s Endowment detained at San Francisco’s to provide ongoing support for Angel Island Immigration Station, A BOOK IN COMMON such work. Contributors to the gathered together in “Island”; Marie “Tulalip, From My Heart: An endowment include Pascal’s Rose Wong’s look at Portland’s Autobiographical Account of a colleagues at the press — some Chinatowns in “Sweet Cakes, Reservation Community,” by of whom have made regular gifts Long Journey”; and a collection Harriette Shelton Dover, was chosen through payroll deductions for by renowned playwright Philip recently as Western Washington years — along with authors, series Kan Gotanda, “No More Cherry University’s 2017-18 common book. editors, UW faculty, UW Press Blossoms.” The Western Reads Committee Advisory Board members and other noted that the selection “honors the community members and friends. Thanks to the Pascal Endowment, Coast Salish traditions that defined, inspired by Naomi Pascal and and continue to define, this region.” The endowment supports books in built by her authors, friends and Several thousand Western students, fields Pascal was passionate about, colleagues, the press will continue faculty and staff are reading and including Native American and Asian to provide a forum for voices and discussing this volume by a Tulalip American studies and anthropology. stories such as these. elder, published with support from The list of works runs from Claude the Pascal Endowment. JACOB LAWRENCE The acclaimed American artist Jacob Lawrence was a close friend of UW Press. He was featured in several UW Press books that explore and celebrate his work, and he personally supported the press through generous gifts of his time and extraordinary art. Lawrence helped establish the press’s first advisory board in 1988 and continued to serve until his death in 2000. To provide ongoing funding for books about other artists, he produced an edition of 100 signed prints of the lithograph “Memorabilia” and donated the proceeds from their sale to create the Jacob Lawrence Photo of Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight by Mary Randlett. Endowment for Books on American Artists. A LEGACY FOR AMERICAN ART UW Press has published half a dozen books about artist’s ability to transform a wide range of sources into Jacob Lawrence’s work, ranging from “Jacob Lawrence: “mystical meditations on the transitions in life.” American Painter,” published in collaboration with the Seattle Art Museum for a 1986 retrospective, to an A few of the other books published thanks to the edition of “Aesop’s Fables” illustrated with his original Lawrence Endowment include “Alfredo Arreguín: prints. The most significant and ambitious of these Patterns of Dreams and Nature / Disenos, Suenos y projects is “The Complete Jacob Lawrence,” a two- Naturaleza,” a bilingual Spanish-English edition filled with volume set that includes “Over the Line: The Art and motifs from the artist’s native Michoacán and the Pacific Life of Jacob Lawrence” and “Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Northwest. “The Prints of Roger Shimomura” features Drawings, and Murals (1935–1999),” the first catalogue work inspired by Japanese woodblocks and American raisonné of the work of an African American artist. pop art. “William H. Johnson: An American Modern,” in the words of one reviewer, “celebrates the richness Yet Lawrence’s legacy at the press goes far beyond his of human creativity, the beauty of the land, and the own remarkable work. By establishing an endowment worth and dignity of people.” Most recently published to support studies of American art, Lawrence and is “Queering Contemporary Asian American Art,” a his wife, artist Gwendolyn Knight, have enabled the collection of critical essays and original artist interviews press to publish a whole series of books about other that explores how artists disrupt preconceived notions groundbreaking artists. of race, gender and art. “Storm Watch: The Art of Barbara Earl Thomas,” the On the centenary of Lawrence’s birth, UW Press honors first book published with the endowment’s support, the rich legacy he left not only through his own work, showcases the work of the Seattle-based artist and but also through his endowment’s perpetual support of writer. Reviews of the book praised the vivid colors work about other American artists. and luminous images in Thomas’ work, as well as the A selection of titles supported by the Jacob Lawrence Endowment. CEF REPORT 2017.

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