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Jane Ingram Allen’s SCG Artist in Residency at Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA – More Photos and Activities – Sept. 6 – 26, 2025

30 Tuesday Sep 2025

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During this wonderful 3-week National Artist in Residency at Blue Line Arts, Roseville, California, I had a very enjoyable time making some new art with handmade paper using local plant materials as well as presenting an exhibition of handmade paper artworks I created in 2024 and 2025 and teaching a 2-day workshop in making handmade paper from local plants and a Zoom/hybrid workshop on International Opportunities for Artists. I also gave an Artist Talk about my work, and there were several receptions and opportunities to interact with local people and gallery visitors during Open Studio times at the Blue Line Arts Center.

Below are some images of my residency experience at Blue Line Arts taken by my husband Timothy S. Allen, who came with me and documented the residency in Roseville. This residency program has outstanding support for the selected artist, and it was an inspiring and productive time. I highly recommend this residency that is sponsored by the Placer Community Foundation and the Susan Cooley-Gilliom family to bring different artists there each year for the SCG National Artist in Residency and Teaching Program. The next call for artists is available now at this link: https://www.bluelinearts.org/scg-national-2026

All images of my September 2025 residency at Blue Line Arts are by Timothy S. Allen (allentimphotos2.wordpress.com).

Jane and Open Studio visitors in gallery with her exhibition, first week of residency.

Here are more photos from the last week of my SCG Artist in Residency at Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA.

All photos are by Timothy S. Allen.

From Plant to Paper Workshop at Blue Line Arts Center, Roseville, CA

16 Tuesday Sep 2025

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On Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13 and 14, 9 participants came for the two-day workshop in hand papermaking from SCG Artist in Residence Jane Ingram Allen at the Blue Line Arts Center in Roseville, CA. The participants prepared plants gathered locally, cooked them in alkaline for three to four hours, washed out the alkaline after cooking, and beat them to a pulp by hand with wooden hammers and then finished the pulp preparation by mixing the fibers and water for a few minutes in a kitchen blender.

The plants we used in this workshop were cattail leaves, white mulberry bark, Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) and Bird of Paradise leaves. We also used some already prepared blue jean pulp (cotton), kozo (paper mulberry) and abaca (a banana leaf relative) dyed orange. The participants learned Jane’s modified Japanese style sheet forming technique and many other techniques for layering and embellishing handmade paper artworks. We couched the newly formed handmade paper sheets onto non-woven interfacing fabric and then hung them to dry outdoors. Here are some photos taken by my husband Timothy S. Allen of the two-day workshop.

The workshop participants were all very creative and enjoyed working together in the wonderful indoor and outdoor studio space available at the Blue Line Arts Center. Jane will be continuing her artist in residency through September 26 and trying some other local plants for hand papermaking and making some new works inspired by her time in Roseville, CA. This week she has a tour group visiting from a local college and Open Studio on Thursday and Fridays from 12 – 2 pm and the Artist’s Talk and Reception on Saturday, Sept. 20, 4-5pm (lecture) and 5-7pm (reception). Check out the website of Blue Line Arts Center for more information about the Susan Cooley Gilliom Artist in Residency and Teaching Program at Blue Line Arts Center: https://www.bluelinearts.org/scg-national-2025

The public is invited to come visit with the artist and see her exhibition during gallery hours Tuesday through Saturdays, 11 am to 5pm. The public is also invited for the Open Studio times and for the lecture and reception. Jane will continue working at the Blue Line Arts Center through Friday, Sept. 26. More photos will be coming soon of this hand papermaking artist in residency.

Jane Ingram Allen’s SCG Artist in Residency at Blue Line Arts Center, Roseville, CA, Sept. 6 – 26, 2025

11 Thursday Sep 2025

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I am happy to be selected as the National Artist this year for the Susan Cooley-Gilliom (SCG) Artist in Residence and Teaching Program at Blue Line Arts Center in Roseville, California. I’ve been in Roseville almost a week now putting up an exhibition of my recent work with handmade paper and getting started with Open Studio times from 12-2 pm on Thursdays and Fridays and preparing for a hands-on community workshop this weekend to make handmade paper from local plant waste materials such as leaves and bark.

Here are some photos of my exhibition in the Education Gallery at Blue Line Arts Center in downtown Roseville (https://www.bluelinearts.org/scg-national-2025). The exhibition is open to the public Tues. through Saturday, 11 – 5, now through Sept. 26, 2025. The photos were taken by my husband Timothy S. Allen; Tim is with me in Roseville for this project. My exhibition contains 16 handmade paper and mixed media installation artworks I created in 2024 and 2025 that focus on fire and water and use plant fibers and natural threads with holes and controlled burning.

The public is invited to come in to see more of the process during the Open Studio times on Thursdays and Fridays 12 Noon to 2 PM, and attend the artist’s talk on Sept. 20, 4-5 pm, with reception following 5-7 pm at Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Street, Roseville, CA.

I will be teaching a workshop “Plant to Paper” using local plant materials on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13 and 14, 10am to 4pm at the Blue Line Arts Center. I’ve been busy locating possible plants to use and gathering the materials with the help of my brother and sister-in-law, John and Tina Ingram, who live in nearby Sacramento, CA. Here are some photos taken by my husband Tim showing some of the plants we will be using for hand papermaking in Roseville. The Blue Line Arts Center has an excellent studio space for the artist in residence and also an alley just outside the studio space that works great for cooking and beating the plant materials to a pulp to make paper. Participants in this 2-day workshop will learn the whole process starting from the gathered plant waste materials and ending up with unique place and nature connected handmade paper artworks.

Here are some photos taken by my husband Tim of some of the plants we will be using for hand papermaking in Roseville. Check out more of the photography of Timothy S. Allen at (https://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com)

More photos will be posted soon from the Plants to Paper workshop and also of the new artworks I will be making during my 3-week residency in Roseville, CA at Blue Line Arts Center.