June Shealor
Birth Date: 1921

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June Daisley (Shealor-Lockhart) was born in 1921 in Saginaw, Michigan. Her interest in the arts began in 1931 when she was taken from Kingwood School for a tour of Carl Milles’s studio. Clay is her favorite material but she has worked in wood, metal and paper as well. “I feel each material has an effect on the person using it as well as being affected by the artist. I like these different experiences”. June Daisely studied art at the Cranbrook Art Academy in 1940 where her interest in pottery started. However while at Wheaton College her interests turned to zoology. Still her love of clay remained constant. She minored in art at Wheaton and kept up with sculpture during summers at Cranbrook. After graduating she met and married a captain in the field artillery, Walter Shealor. As an army wife she traveled the United States, moving a total of seventeen times. At the end of the war, Walt was discharged from the army and he used his engineering skills and degree from Purdue University to work for the Timken Company. During her house-hunting adventures June spied a potter’s wheel in a basement. When she and Walt decided to build their own home she went back to the owner of the wheel and asked “What are going to do with that wheel?” The owner replied, “Is that what that is? If you get it out of here, you can have it!” June quickly made a home for it. Through thirty-eight years of marriage to Walter, including raising their three boys, art remained an important part of June’s life. It was no wonder that as a board member of Canton Museum of Art, June insisted on the inclusion of a clay studio as plans moved forward for a new building. When the Museum was finished and there was no instructor, June was enlisted to teach pottery. Around eleven years after Walter passed away, June met and married George Lockhart. The couple eventually settled at Shell Point, Florida, where she continues to express her artistic talents in the Pottery Studio. June Shealor-Lockhart not only created art – she also donated two fine pieces to the Museum’s collection. A black Ceramic Bowl by Gertrude and Otto Natzler and a Ceramic Vase by Maija Grotell were two fine gifts.