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Jane Ingram Allen Summer Art News

29 Wednesday Jun 2022

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Summer art activities include making handmade paper outdoors on my patio and assembling things indoors in my garage studio in Santa Rosa, CA, for upcoming exhibitions and public art projects.

I have been selected for Sonoma Creates Art Surround (https://www.creativesonoma.org/artsurround/) a new public art program that will partner artists with organizations in Santa Rosa and Sonoma County, CA, to create new site-specific artworks in public spaces working with the community. The project offers grants of $1000 to $10,000 to each of the selected artists to do one or more public art projects during the months of July to December of 2022. I should know in a few weeks what organizations I will be working with and where my installations will be sited. I hope to do more eco art installations with handmade paper and seeds in the pulp to change over time and work in harmony with nature. Here is a photos of my installation last year in Steckborn, Switzerland, titled “Living Quilt for Steckborn”.

Jane Ingram Allen, Living Quilt for Steckborn, installed in April 2021 and starting to transform, 8 feet x 10 feet x 1 foot, sponsored by Haus zur Glocke https://www.hauszurglocke.ch/home, Steckborn, Switzerland, handmade paper pulp, dye, seeds for wildflowers, soil, boards.
Jane Ingram Allen, Living Quilt for Steckborn, blooming in September 2021, 8 feet x 10 feet x 1 foot, handmade paper, dye, seeds for wildflowers soil, boards, installed in April 2021, organized by Haus zur Glocke and city of Steckborn, Steckborn, Switzerland.

Check back here soon for updates about the art installations I will be doing in Santa Rosa, California, and Sonoma County, California during the coming months.

Summer Workshops with Jane Ingram Allen in Oregon

Jane’s “Papermaking Around the World” workshops this summer at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology are both full. One session will be August 7 and 8, and another session will be August 9 and 10 at Sitka Center in Otis, Oregon, on the beautiful central Oregon coast. For more information about the programs at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, see the website at http://www.sitkacenter.org

During these “Papermaking Around the World” workshops participants will be learning to make handmade paper using materials, equipment and techniques from countries around the world, such as Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Tanzania, Indonesia, Brazil, Nepal and Turkey…all countries where Jane has been an artist in residence. Jane will be teaching more papermaking art workshops in her Santa Rosa, CA, studio during the Fall of 2022. Email her to be put on the email list for workshops and classes in hand papermaking: info@janeingramallen

Continuing work on Collaborative Art Project “In Deep Water“

Jane is continuing to work with printmaker Jami Taback on their “In Deep Water” Project. The installation of “In Deep Water” at Rowan University, Discovery Hall, Glassboro, NJ, is coming down at the end of August 2022. Here is a photo of one part of the multiple panels being created for this installation. Jane and Jami will be creating more handmade paper and printmaking panels for this ongoing installation art project about climate change and water.

Detail of “In Deep Water” panel, one sheet 18″ x 12″, handmade paper, dye, printmaking, ink

The next exhibition of “In Deep Water” will be Oct. 8 – Nov. 10, 2022, at Gallery Route One Project Space, Point Reyes Station, CA. http://www.galleryrouteone.org

Another Papermaking Workshop in August at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology in Oregon

12 Sunday Jun 2022

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Due to so many people wanting to take the class “Papermaking Around the World” Jane will be offering another workshop on this topic at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, Oregon, on August 6 and 7, 2022. Jane will also be teaching Papermaking Around the World at Sitka Center, August 9 and 10, which is already full and with a waiting list!

See this link to register for the recently added workshop: https://www.sitkacenter.org/workshops/3317-papermaking-around-the-world

Taiwan Site Maps, created during Jane’s Fulbright Research Grant residency project in Taiwan, 2004-05.

Here is a description of the two-day Papermaking Around the World workshop.

In this workshop participants will learn about hand papermaking techniques, equipment and plant fibers used in different countries around the world (Taiwan, Japan, Nepal, China, Thailand, the Philippines, Bali Indonesia, Brazil, Tanzania and Turkey). The instructor will share her experiences as an artist in residence in these countries where she made handmade paper from local plants to create her handmade paper artworks. Participants will use such fibers as lotka from Nepal, kozo from Japan, abaca from the Philippines, palm leaves from Bali and Taiwan and banana leaves from Tanzania. The instructor will share images, sample books, fibers and equipment used around the world. Participants will learn to use Asian, Japanese, Nepalese and Western techniques for sheet forming as well as creative techniques on authentic and improvised equipment to achieve expressive and creative handmade paper art pieces. 

No prior papermaking skills required. This workshop is also suitable for experienced papermakers who want to explore new techniques and different fibers from around the world.