June Anderson

June Anderson has a degree in Art Education from Bath Academy of Art, England, and a BFA in Textile History from the California College of Arts, Oakland. She taught art in high schools in England, Canada, and Brazil and emigrated to the USA in 1977.

She pursued graduate studies in anthropology at UC Berkeley and, from 1983 to 2006, June worked in the Anthropology Dept. at the California Academy of Sciences – San Francisco’s natural history museum – conducting research and fieldwork on ethnic art around the globe, with a focus on Pre-Columbian textiles. She has written books on Turkish carpets, African-American woodcarving, and Hmong embroidery.

June’s current interests are large-scale paintings on canvas of the human figure as well as abstract photography. Her studio is in Penn Valley, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California.