Jane Ingram Allen will be an invited speaker at the 2022 TransCultural Exchange Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts titled “Create the Future”. Jane’s presentation for the conference is called “The Road Less Traveled – Lesser Known Opportunities for Artists” and includes one session on Funding and Grants and another session on Residencies and Exhibition Opportunities. Jane will be speaking at this biennial conference for the third time, and highly recommends it for networking and meeting in person many artists, curators, administrators and others from around the world who are interested in international art opportunities. There’s nothing like meeting people in person to promote your work and learn what opportunities might fit best. The conference will be in Boston, MA, from Nov. 4-6, 2022, and is held at various colleges and museums in Boston. For more information and to register for this conference, visit the website at https://transculturalexchange.org
Jane making paper with students in Taiwan, 2005, while on a Fulbright Scholar Research Grant
This past week I was teaching two workshops at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology in Otis, Oregon, and had an opportunity to visit my art project done last year “Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley” created with students in the Summer Youth Art Program of the Sitka Center in cooperation with the K-12 School and students from the Nestucca Valley school district. I was the Guest Artist for this program and worked at the school for two weeks in August 2021, with the students to create and install this work before going back to my home in Santa Rosa, CA.
It is great to see how this “quilt” has changed over time and to see so many wildflowers that were in the handmade paper quilt blocks still blooming! The photos below were taken by my husband Timothy S. Allen when we visited the Nestucca Vally School and viewed the art installation in the school garden on Monday, August 8, 2022.
“Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley” shown on August 8, 2022, photo by Timothy S. AllenLiving Quilt for Nestucca Valley one year later!Another view of Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley after one year.Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley on August 8, 2022, showing detail of blue bachelor buttons and golden poppies blooming
The Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley was installed on August 13, 2021. I have also attached one photo below of the quilt when it was first installed with the handmade paper quilt blocks each having seeds in the paper pulp in the same colors and patterns in the design of fish, waves and trees. Hopefully the wildflower seeds will disperse again this Fall and come back in the Spring of 2023 with more blooms. For more about the Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley, see this link to an article from Sept. 2021, in ART NEWS: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/jane-ingram-allen-living-quilts-1234603170/
Jane Ingram Allen, Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley, Cloverdale, Oregon (in school garden of K-12 Nestucca Valley School) shown at installation on August 13, 2021, 8 feet x 10 feet x 5 feet, mixed media art installation of handmade paper, dye, thread, soil, boards, branches, created with participants in Summer Youth Art Program of Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, photo by Timothy S. Allen
Jane Ingram Allen Art Projects 