June Claire Wayne (March 7, 1918 Chicago, Illinois – August 23, 2011 Los Angeles, California) was an American printmaker, tapestry designer, painter, and educator. She founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop.
She is survived by her granddaughters, Ariane Junah Claire and Jevon Claire.
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She was a Distinguished Visiting Research Professor (2002-2007) at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1997, she was the artist in residence at the Brodsky Center at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey. There is a June Wayne Archive and Study Room based on her gift of 3,321 prints (2,555 from Wayne herself).
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She founded Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1960 in Los Angeles, California. In 1970, Tamarind Workshop was taken over by the University of New Mexico and renamed the Tamarind Institute.
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She is survived by her daughter, Robin Claire Park of Poulsboro, Washington; a stepdaughter, Abby Moore of Tucson, Arizona; and two grandchildren.
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She was married to George Wayne, a United States Army Air Corps flight surgeon. In 1941, she moved to Los Angeles, California where she studied production illustration in a program jointly run by California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California and Art Center School but returned to Chicago, Illinois to work as a scriptwriter for the radio station WGN. She returned to Los Angeles, California after World War II ended in 1945.
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She dropped out of high school in Chicago, Illinois to pursue art.
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Founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, where leading artists collaborated with professional printers to create high-quality prints. The Workshop was named after the street where she lived at the time of its founding, Tamarind Street (Hollywood, California).
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