Templeton, Rini.

Rini Templeton was born Lucille Corinne Templeton on July 1, 1935 in Buffalo, New York. In 1943 her family moved to Washington, D.C. Early in her life, Rini exhibited her creative talents; at 10 her poem about the end of WWII in Europe was published in the Evening Star, a Washington D.C. daily, and at 13 she built her own darkroom. In 1946 the family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where the next year, after unusually high IQ test results, Rini was fiven a full scholarship to the University of Chicago's Laboratory School. In 1949 Rini published her own collection of poems entitled "Chicagoverse". By 1950, Rini was the editor of the school newspaper and from 1951-1952, she worked on the editorial board of the University's newspaper, "The Maroon."

In 1985, Rini held her first one-person show in Mexico at Museo Regional De Guadalajara (Regional Museum of Guadalajara) in which she exhibited 32 silkscreen prints from her graphic series "Donde Hay Vida Y Lucha" (Where There Is Life And Struggle).

Rini Templeton died in 1986. Since her death, the Rini Templeton Workshop has been established and formally inaugurated in the School of Graphic Design of the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico. There is a website dedicated to Rini's art and her life, Riniart.org, where over 600 of her images are cataloged and made available to the public to be used in leaflets, newsletters, banners, picket signs or other non-commercial purposes.

From the description of Rini Templeton Papers, 1970-1999. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 56350977