Summer so far has been very busy!  It has also gotten very hot after a rather cool June.  I have been making new works and building a new papermaking mold and deckle for creating really BIG sheets of paper as well as having family visits and getting ready for teaching workshops and installing new exhibitions.

Educator Grant from Surface Design Association:  I received a 2023 Educator grant from the Surface Design Association to make a Portable Large Papermaking Mold and Deckle. I needed a large papermaking mold that could be transported in our car for the EXTREME Papermaking Workshop I am teaching at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology(www.sitkacenter.org), in Otis, Oregon, August 5 and 6.  The workshop is already full, and I am looking forward to working with these students at this beautiful place on the central Oregon coast.   

Here is a photo of the new portable folding papermaking mold that can make sheets of paper 7 feet x 3 feet using a pouring method.  This should be fun to use in the workshop – just one of the many papermaking techniques I will cover in this workshop that includes all sorts of inventive and EXTREME ways of making paper that I have discovered in my papermaking travels around the world.  I will now be able to use this foldable large papermaking mold and deckle for other papermaking workshops I will be teaching in Santa Rosa and surrounding areas.  

Article in Summer 2023 FiberArts Magazine:  Speaking of travel around the world my article “Papermaking Around the World” was just published in the Summer 2023 issue of FiberArt Now.  Here is a link for a summary of the article:   https://www.fiberartnow.net/summer-2023/

Scroll down to my article “Papermaking Around the World” and see an image of my Izmir, Turkey Site Map and read about my papermaking adventures as an artist in residence in 5 countries:  Costa Rica, Tanzania, Turkey, Bali and Taiwan.  The Summer 2023 issue can be ordered at www.fiberartnow.net

Upcoming Exhibitions:  

Solo Exhibition in Mountain View, CA:  “Jane Ingram Allen – Papermaking Around the World” at Mountain View Performing Arts Center Lobby Gallery, August 15 – Oct. 2, 2023.  For more information:  https://www.mvcpa.com/events/lobby-art.

 This exhibition features a selection of handmade paper “site map” works I have made as an artist-in-residencies in countries around the world including Taiwan, Japan, Costa Rica, Brazil, Tanzania, Indonesia, Thailand, and the USA.  Exhibit hours are Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 12 p.m. – 1 pm, and one hour prior to every public performance.  See the Calendar of Events for performance dates and times: https://www.mvcpa.com/events/calendar

Exhibition in Taichung, Taiwan, Dec. 2, 2023 – April 2, 2024: “Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback – In Deep Water – We’re In This Together” will be a site-specific installation of collaborative work utilizing Handmade Paper and Printmaking by the two artists created in response to our present climate crisis and relating to water.  The exhibition will be in the Live Forever Foundation Vital Space Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan, and is curated by Iris Hung.  The show also includes works on water and the climate crisis by two Taiwanese artists.  Jane and Jami will travel to Taiwan in late November and stay for 10 days to create this installation of the ‘In Deep Water” project emphasizing that water and climate change are global problems.  The artists will present a Gallery Talk at the opening on Saturday, Dec. 2, and the public is invited.  The artists will also teach a hands-on workshop in Taiwan about papermaking and printmaking and their process for creating the 36 suspended panels of printed-on handmade paper joined with threads.