June Wayne's devotion to stone lithography

As The Other: Nurturing a New Ecology in Printmaking prepares to end its run on April 10, this audio guide by John Hutcheson gives s little peak into the woman who founded the organization that provided the art work in the exhibition.

Hutcheson, a master printer trained at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography and an associate professor at the University of North Florida, worked with MOCA Jacksonville to create audio guides for works in the Museum's printmaking exhibitions: Time Zones, In Living Color, The Other, and the Permanent Collection. This is the text he wrote and recorded about June Wayne's Inside Out (1992), a single-color lithograph courtesy of the Tamarind Institute.

June Wayne was an artist who had been making stone lithographs from the 1950s. Stone lithography is a labor-intensive art form, which demands perfection and mastery of chemistry and machinery, all guided by a sensitive eye and an open attitude.

She also founded Tamarind Workshop in 1960 in Los Angeles with the mission to revive the art of stone lithography in the United States by training a new pool of master printers, who would then go out into the world to open shops and continue this rare art form by training their apprentices and by working with artists.

At Tamarind, we worked our way up the ladder by collaborating on stone lithographs with the guest artists who were invited to work for a month at Tamarind. We worked and studied sixty hours a week while living frugally on the printer stipend from the Ford Foundation.

Listen to the audio guide here or call 904-248-4197, then press 208.

Find all of Hutcheson's audio guides here.