June Glory Biber Freeman was born on June 10, 1928, in Newark, New Jersey.
She earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Chicago and completed two years of graduate work. Afterwards, she moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and became an advocate for the arts. Freeman has worked with the Pine Bluff Junior Auxiliary and the Southeast Arkansas Arts and Science Center. She also wrote Artline, a column that appeared in the Pine Bluff Commercial.
Freeman has served on the boards of the Arkansas Arts Council, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Southeast Arkansas Arts and Science Center, and the Mid-America Arts Alliance.
#1: composite of June Freeman childhood portrait with still image from 2009 Pryor Center video interview
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#2: June Freeman's maternal great-grandfather, Pesech Frankel, born in Odessa, Russia, in 1850
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#3: June Freeman's paternal great-grandfather, Leon Biber, Poland, ca. 1910
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#4: June Freeman's maternal grandmother, Gutka Zuckerman, with children, 1908
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#5: Portrait of June Freeman's maternal grandfather, Samuel Zuckerman, 1908
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#6: Elementary class photo of June Freeman's mother, Hilda Zuckerman (Biber), 3rd row from bottom, 1st from left, 1917
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#7: June Freeman's maternal grandfather, Samuel Zuckerman, front row, 3rd from left, with a group of men from his hometown, Chechanovtzer, Poland, gathered in New York City, 1932
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#8: June Biber (Freeman), 9 months old
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#9: Portrait of June Biber (Freeman), 5 years old
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#10: June Biber (Freeman) in puppet show put on by the Cardiac Starlets, junior group of United Order of True Sisters, January 7, 1940
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#11: Art editor June Biber (Freeman), bottom row, 1st from left, high school yearbook photo, ca. 1946
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#12: June Biber (Freeman), high school graduation photo, class of 1946
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#13: Portrait of June Freeman's parents, Hilda and Irving Biber, early 1950s
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#14: June Freeman showing patrons around the Little Firehouse Community Arts Center; Pine Bluff, Arkansas, ca. 1966
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#15: June Freeman, right, with Joyce Faulkner, center, in a publicity photo for the Little Firehouse Community Arts Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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#16: David and Linda Lochridge at the Little Firehouse Community Arts Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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#17: Bill Woodell and Eric Freeman, son of Edmond and June Freeman, at the Little Firehouse Community Arts Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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#18: June and Edmond Freeman fishing with family off the coast of Panama City, June 1964
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#19: June Freeman taking summer classes on art administration at Harvard; Cambridge, Massachusetts, early 1970s
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#20: June Freeman's father, Irving Biber, at work in Sarasota, Florida
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#21: June Freeman byline from her Artline column in the Pine Bluff Commercial
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#22: June Freeman, Rae Perry, and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton at a presentation to the Arts Council, 1980
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#23: June Freeman speaking at the signing of the sister city charter between Iwai, Japan, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Iwai, Japan, ca. 1986
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#24: June Freeman, 2nd from left, at the signing of the sister city charter between Iwai, Japan, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Iwai, Japan, ca. 1986
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#25: June Freeman, 2nd from left, at the signing of the sister city charter between Iwai, Japan, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Iwai, Japan, ca. 1986
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#26: Sharon Priest and June Freeman, center, at awards ceremony
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#27: June Freeman and Japanese ambassador Ryohei Murata at the Japanese embassy, 1991
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#28: June Freeman working on a self-sculpture project
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#29: Edmond Freeman, far left, and June Freeman, 4th from right, with the Freeman family at Mt. Whitney
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#30: Edmond and June Freeman descending Mt. Whitney
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#31: June and Edmond Freeman climbing Mt. Fuji, October 2005
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