Art Projects in Taiwan for Spring 2015

Jane will be in Taiwan from March 12 to June 9, 2015 and will be doing 3 art projects this year:

March 16 – March 31: Artist in Residency, Wutong Foundation, Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, Taiwan

Jane will be an artist in residence at the Wutong Foundation to create a site-specific artwork using handmade paper she will create from local plant waste materials. The “Wutong Site Map” artwork will feature the natural and geographic aspects of the local area as well as its cultural features and the current garden and tree planting projects of the Wutong Foundation. Jane will also teach a papermaking art workshop for local people and present a lecture and hold open studios for people to see the process and join in the process.
Jane has created unique artworks that she calls “site maps” in many residencies around the world, and with these works she uses only local plant materials and other natural and recycled materials collected in the place to make the handmade paper. Then she does mixed media painting, drawing and collage on the handmade paper constructions to create a two-sided suspended artwork. The Wutong Site Map will be displayed at the Wutong Foundation in Zhubei City. Check the website for more information: http://www.wutong.org.tw/en/about-us.html

April 9 – May 4: Curator and artist in residence, Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project, Cheng Long village, Yunlin County, Taiwan Check the Blog at http://artproject4wetland.wordpress.com

Jane has been the Curator for the Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project since she initiated it in 2010. This year Jane has selected 5 international artists who will also be in residence in Cheng Long village during this time to create site-specific environmental installations on the theme of “Fragile – Handle with Care”. This year, in addition to curating the project, Jane will create a site-specific art installation herself. Jane’s artwork for Cheng Long will be a “Cheng Long Site Map”, and she will make handmade paper from local plant waste materials and use other materials collected in the place to create a large-scale suspended two-sided artwork that can be moved around to different sites in the village. Jane will involve the local community and the school children in the papermaking process and have an open studio so that people can join in the papermaking with local plants process. The finished Cheng Long Site Map as well as the community handmade paper artworks will be displayed in Cheng Long Village at a selected site and remain on view in Cheng Long. For more information about the Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project, see the Blog at:
http://artproject4wetland.wordpress.com

May 14 – June 8: National Museum of Marine Science & Technology International Environmental Art Project, Keelung, Taiwan

Jane is starting a new environmental art project in Taiwan this year working as the curator with the National Museum of Marine Science & Technology in Keelung, Taiwan. The theme for the art project is “Paradise – Sustainable Oceans”, and the artworks will be outdoor environmental sculpture installations about ocean sustainability and the goal of keeping the beautiful northeast coast of Taiwan a “paradise”. Jane is in the process of choosing 6 foreign artists and 2 Taiwanese artists from over 200 applications, and she will announce the selected artists on March 15. These selected artists will come to Keelung for a 25-day artist in residency May 14 to June 8 and work with the local community, volunteers and visitors to create site-specific works around the Museum and the community. Jane will be staying in Keelung also during the art project to help the artists and supervise all aspects of the NMMST environmental art project. The opening weekend festival will be June 6 and 7. For more information about this art project see the Museum’s website at: http://artproject2015.nmmst.gov.tw/en.html

I have 4 handmade paper artworks on view now through May 15 at Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA (SF Bay Area) as part of the exhibition “Transitions” curated by Patricia Watts. Click here for information about the exhibition and directions to the Marin Community Foundation exhibition space. http://www.marincf.org/contact-us
These are photos of my artworks installed at Marin Community Foundation. One work “Salmon River Estuary Site Map” is downstairs just to the right of the entrance to the building. Another work “Pt. Reyes Site Map” is installed on the large wall over the stairway leading to the 2nd floor exhibition space. Two other works in my ongoing series of handmade paper quilts are installed in the second floor exhibition space. Hope you can go and see this exhibition before the show closes on May 15.

The photos are taken by Timothy S. Allen, and please click here to take a look at Tim’s photo blog:  http://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com

Jane Putting Handmade Paper to dry on a Coral Wall during Fulbright Residency in Penghu, Taiwan

Register now at the Santa Rosa Junior College Continuing Education Site:

https://portal.santarosa.edu/CommunityEducation/ListCourse.aspx?CourseVrsnNbr=01082901&ID=2015320

“Going Global with Your Art Career”

Jane Ingram Allen, Instructor

Jane Ingram Allen is an international artist, art professor, curator and critic living in Taiwan from 2004 – 2012, going there in 2004 as a Fulbright research scholar to be an artist in residence in 14 different communities over a 2-year grant period. Jane has done international art projects and residencies in many countries including the USA, the Philippines, Japan, Nepal, Brazil, Thailand, Bali (Indonesia), England, France, China and Taiwan. She also curates international exhibitions and has served on juries and review committees for Fulbright visual arts grants, foundation art grants and many international art projects and exhibitions.

Expanded Course Description:

GOING GLOBAL WITH YOUR ART CAREER – International Opportunities for Artists

This 3 hour Workshop/class with instructor Jane Ingram Allen is being offered at Santa Rosa Junior College, Saturday, Feb. 7, 1PM to 4PM, 1588 Emeritus Hall, Santa Rosa Campus, Santa Rosa, CA

This course is for artists who are ready to expand their art career internationally and travel to other countries for residencies, exhibitions and other opportunities. The course will cover the following:

1. How to communicate internationally and adjust to cultural differences.
2. What promotional materials should you prepare to go global with your art career.
3. Different international opportunities such as artist in residencies, art competitions, exhibitions at galleries and museums and teaching or lecturing in other countries
4. How to find out about international opportunities through Websites, networks, publications and other sources
5. How to make successful proposals and applications
6. What can international opportunities do for your career
7. How to get funding for international art opportunities
8. Sharing and Discussion of materials from participants

https://portal.santarosa.edu/CommunityEducation/ListCourse.aspx?CourseVrsnNbr=01082901&ID=2015320

I will have several mixed media handmade paper artworks that I created recently at residencies in Point Reyes, California, and Sitka Center for Art & Ecology in a group show of Northern California Artists. The show is called “Transitions” and curated by Patricia Watts and will be at the Marin Community Foundation in Novato, CA from January 21 to May 15, 2015. The opening reception is Wednesday, Jan. 21 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM. Hope to see you there if you are in the Bay Area.

I am copying below the press release about this exhibition.

Marin Community Foundation Hosts “Transitions’”

Novato, CA (January 5, 2015)—The Marin Community Foundation will host an exhibition,“Transitions,” from January 21 to May 15, 2015, featuring thirty North Bay Area artists aged sixty years and older.

The exhibition will be held at the Foundation’s offices at 5 Hamilton Landing, Suite 200,Novato, CA.

A public reception will be held Wednesday, January 21st from 4:30 – 6:30 pm.

In early November 2014, a Call for Artists was made to North Bay counties including Marin,Sonoma, Mendocino, Napa, and Solano, for artists over sixty years of age whose recent work displayed some form of transition in their art or their life. Artists typically make several transitions throughout their careers, including changes in medium, changes in studio space,and changes in subject matter. The artworks selected represent transitions in the lives ofolder adult artists both metaphorically and literally.

This exhibition includes approximately one hundred artworks selected by three jurors:Megan Wilkinson, former Executive Director of the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in MillValley; Satri Pencak, independent curator in Sonoma County and former curator of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts; and consulting curator for the Marin CommunityFoundation, Patricia Watts, former Chief Curator at the Sonoma County Museum in SantaRosa.

Artists Include: Jane Ingram Allen, Sonja Bakalyar, Yvonne Brown, Jan Buscho, Mima Cataldo, Ellen Levine Dodd, Holly Downing, Tim Graveson, Arlene Helfrich, Scott Hess,Bonnie Himberg-Mumford, Lars Johnson, Toni Littlejohn, Linda MacDonald, Lin Max,Catherine McCauley, Zea Morvitz, Elaine Nehm, Cayen Robertson, Elizabeth Sher, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Jeremy Thornton, Patti Trimble, Shelia Tuffanelli, Sally Weare, Shane Weare, Barbara Winer, Stephen Whisler, Karen Worth, Kathleen Youngquist.

NOTE TO EDITORS: If you would like high-resolution images of these or other works by these artists, contact Vikki Garrod at 415.464.2527 or vgarrod@marincf.org.

About the Marin Community Foundation

The Marin Community Foundation is the primary center for philanthropy in Marin County,CA and is one of the largest community foundations in the U.S. It manages the assets of theLeonard and Beryl H. Buck Trust and over 450 funds established by individuals, families,and businesses. The Foundation makes significant improvements in communities aroundthe world in two ways: by spearheading initiatives for long-term, sustainable change inMarin, and by distributing grants from donor-advised funds locally, across the U.S., andaround the world. Now in its 28th year, the Marin Community Foundation has assets ofover $1.6 billion, with annual grant distributions of approximately $60 million.

I will be working with the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in Keelung, Taiwan, to curate a new eco-art project in Taiwan.  This art project will feature outdoor interactive environmental sculpture installations by international artists on the theme of ocean sustainability.  Selected artists will come to Keelung, Taiwan to create their works from May 14 to June 8, 2015.  Please contact me by email at nmmstartproject@gmail.com for the Call for Proposals.  Artists selected will receive a stipend, airfare, accommodations, meals and volunteer help to create their works on and around the Museum grounds.

Here is the website of the National Museum of Marine Science & Technology in Keelung, Taiwan:

http://www.nmmst.gov.tw/enhtml/index

Hope to see your proposal by email before the deadline of February 15, 2015.

Hello everyone,  I will again be curating the international environmental art project in Cheng Long, Taiwan!

Please announce this opportunity to artists in your network.

Artist in Residency/Call for Proposals)

2015 Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan

Artists from all countries are invited to send a proposal for a large-scale site-specific outdoor environmental sculpture installation to be created during a 25-day residency in Cheng Long, a small coastal village in southwest Taiwan, working with elementary school students, residents and volunteers. The 6 selected artists will receive an artist’s fee of US$2,000, airfare, accommodations and meals; for more information visit http://artproject4wetland.wordpress.com

Theme for 2015:  “Fragile – Handle with Care”

Residency in Cheng Long, Taiwan: April 9 – May 4, 2015

Deadline for Entries: January 15, 2015

To Apply: Send the following to Curator, Jane Ingram Allen at allenrebeccajanei@gmail.com  Proposals in Chinese to Ms. Chao-Mei Wang at chenglong.artproject@gmail.com

1. Description of proposed sculpture including dimensions and materials (limit one page, sent as attached .doc or .pdf file).
2. Artist Statement about how your art relates to the theme and including your experience working with children and communities and how you will involve them in your artwork (limit 1 page sent, as attached .doc or .pdf file).
3. Sketch of your proposed artwork (attached .jpg file of less than 1 MB).
4. 6 images of previous related works (6 attached .jpg files, each less than 1 MB)
5. Image list about the 6 images, including title of work, date made, materials used and location of the artwork (sent as attached .doc or .pdf file)
6. CV or Resume (sent as attached .doc or .pdf file) including present address, nationality, education, awards, residencies and exhibitions)

Best wishes,

Jane Ingram Allen, Curator and Artist

Ai Weiwei’s installation “With Wind at Alcatraz exhibition in San Francisco

My review of the exhibition “@Large – Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz” came out today in the online journal ART RADAR ASIA.  Check it out at http://artradarjournal.com/2014/10/31/imprisonment-human-rights-artist-ai-weiwei-alcatraz-island/

My wall installation “California Delta Rivers” is now installed at Capital One Bank Cafe 360, 101 Post Street, San Francisco, in the exhibition “What River Are You Made Of….”.  The artwork is handmade paper and string and attached like a wall drawing….the challenge was getting it up and around the door! The piece is now about 15 feet x 11 feet.  This piece was originally made for an exhibition also about water and the environment for a WEAD exhibition at Los Medanos College Gallery in Pittsburg, CA, and now it has been expanded to include the San Francisco Bay and highlight the Tuolumne River that is the main source of water for San Francisco and Bay Area residents.  This exhibition is organized by Wholly H2O and curated by Elizabeth Dougherty.  Please come to the opening reception on Thursday, Sept. 11, 6:30 to 9PM at the Capital One Cafe, 101 Post St…..or tell your friends about it.  The exhibition remains on view through October 3, and gallery hours are Mon. – Fri. 7AM to 5PM.  See the website at http://www.whollyH20.org for more information.

I created a series of flag pieces back during the era when the USA began all those awful wars in the Middle East.  This artwork is also mixed media on handmade paper with string and is suspended from the ceiling with the 2 pieces about 1 foot apart.