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About The Artist

An astute student of nature and collector of clipped sprigs and forest finds you can find Katie’s inspiration deep within her hand-drawn illustrations, graphic designs, and original patterns. Her artwork celebrates and explores the natural wonder found all around us, like the fern: often walked on and overlooked, the fern adds green to the darkest forest shadows where the sunlight remains elusive. Her ferocious curiosity ignites her process, where she often collects, photographs, and studies her subjects before her creations come to fruition. To read more about the inspiration behind her work, explore our stories.

Katie Forte
The Biophiliac

Katie spent much of her childhood summers barefoot among the dirt, climbing trees, or looking for snails, frogs, or butterflies to befriend. In 2001, when Katie started her career in advertising, she moved from the rural area where she grew up, quickly realizing how much she took nature for granted. It wasn't long after that when she began seeking ways to weave it back into her life, which grew as she shared the awe and wonder of nature with her children. In 2006, Katie started selling her designs while freelancing, with her children at her hip. In 2010, a series of difficult events rocked their family, leading Katie & Nick to join forces to create June & December, naming their new adventure after their kids' birth months, symbolizing their commitment to what truly matters. Katie likes to spend her free time with her family, hiking, weeding her garden, watering her plants, or getting lost in a good book. 

Nick Forte
The Star Gazer

Nick grew up a self-proclaimed fort-building enthusiast, enjoying hunting and fishing expeditions as soon as he was old enough to get into trouble. Growing up on a lake, he learned to appreciate nature at a young age. At age 13, he started helping behind the scenes at his family’s catering and event business, learning the importance of customer service and logistics firsthand. Before co-founding June & December, Nick continued working in the family event business for 18 years, working his way from dishwasher, event captain, and warehouse manager to operations to general manager, planning complex off-site galas and events. After coordinating the sale of the event business with his family, Nick + Katie decided to join forces to create J&D. In his free time, Nick enjoys spending time with Katie and their teenage children, hiking, cooking, star gazing, traveling, and all things tech.

Megan Powers
The Philokalist

Megan joined in the spring of 2023, bringing her anything-is-possible energy to the team! She has already made a significant impact - from her detailed eye, teaching + making skills, and production team leadership! She keeps track of our growing inventory, plans and manages our day-to-day production, teaches new production artists, and ensures the items you order are made to our standards. Megan is a team player, is a fantastic partner for planting trees, and has a special place in her heart for her fur babies. In her free time, she loves to cook for her favorite people, is an avid crochet artist, creating something for someone at all times, and loves to snuggle her fur babies. Also worth mentioning, she is responsible for the cute chonky bumble bees that we carry in-store. We love all her creations!

Sharon Bahuaud
The Squirrel Whisperer

Sharon joined in the fall of 2018, a little over a year after we moved our studio and opened our store in Berkley. She has been with us through so much - including navigating a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. She started working part-time as a production artist, honing her making skills and bringing her detailed eye to ensure each customer receives beautiful products. She has steadily grown into many different roles throughout her time with us. She oversees the order flow processes with the team and is responsible for ensuring your order is prepared and shipped promptly. Sharon brings a positive, always willing-to-lend-a-hand attitude and reminds us to stop and celebrate the milestones along the way, including an occasional team yoga break. In her free time, she enjoys running, practicing yoga, paper crafting, and spending time with her husband, friends, and neighbors.

Asami Cox
The Foodie

Asami joined in the winter of 2022 as a production artist bringing her organizing skills, eye for precision and detail, and instincts for making any process more efficient. As a quick learner, she rapidly grew into a larger role as production team lead and works to carefully package and ship our orders, ensuring everything arrives safely! It’s rare to find Asami having a bad day; she brings her positive energy and humor, rarely stands still, and teaches us many things about her culture from Japan. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and friends, discovering new places, traveling, and is an avid foodie, often reporting on the best new local restaurants.

Olivia Forte
The Froog Lover

Olivia puts June in J&D and has been a behind-the-scenes helper since its inception. Olivia started helping with photo shoots and was in charge of finding toads with her brother during early shoots. Later, she joined as an assembly artist making products and quickly learned how to pick orders. Olivia is also responsible for the dandelion mural on the back of our building, which she painted the summer before her sr. year of high school. A college student now, she helps in and around her schedule, but her own story is just starting to write itself. In her free time, she enjoys snuggling with her floofy cat Luna, coding, playing video games, hiking, traveling to exotic locations (mainly to cold weather spots), and collecting trading cards. We’re excited to see how her future unfolds. 

Nathan Forte
The Problem Solver

Nathan puts December in June & December. Nathan started as the lead cat distractor, ensuring our cats didn’t disrupt photo shoots or run outside while loading boxes in and out. Now, in high school, he helps in many ways as an assembly artist, helping to make products. He has been a great help behind the scenes, including unloading and loading trucks and organizing warehouse areas, and will join us in helping plant trees this year. In his free time, he enjoys snuggling with his floofy cat Luna, playing trading card and video games, traveling to big cities (mainly to warm weather spots), and hanging out with his friends. Nathan’s story has only begun, and we’re excited to see his future.

Katie's Process

Every illustrated piece begins as intricate hand-drawn sketches during Katie’s studies of natural subjects. These tracing papers show part of her process as she begins capturing each subject before bringing it into the computer. She has accumulated quite a library of past illustrations, now done digitally, to minimize paper use and simplify her process. Once each piece is on the computer, the fun part of her creative process begins, where she will build patterns or individual designs, choose color palettes, and prototype different products.