Location of Classes: Jane Ingram Allen’s studio at 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, phone 857-234-2432, email: info@janeingramallen.com

Registration:  To insure your place in a class, send a check made out to Jane Ingram Allen for the class fee by mail to the address above, or use PayPal to “send money” to info@janeingramallen.com with a credit card.  Class size is limited to 5 people, and registration is confirmed after receipt of the class fee. If you need more information call or email me.

Schedule of Classes

Celebrating Kozo – Japanese Papermaking Techniques and Materials

Dates:  March 16, 10 am to 4 pm

Class Fee:  $150 (materials and equipment provided)

Learn to make paper with Japanese Kozo (paper mulberry bark) and other plant fibers in the Japanese way to make unique handmade paper that can be super thin but still very strong and used for everything from clothing to sculpture.  This class will use some of the recent Kozo fiber I ordered from Mino City, Japan, where I was an artist in residence for 3 months in 1999 and returned in 2009.  We will use an authentic sugeta (wooden frame and bamboo woven screen) as well as Western molds & deckles (wooden frame and nylon screening) and formation aid from powdered polyethylene oxide and from okra juice.  The class will cover preparing fiber, preparing the vat, adding formation aid, various ways of sheet forming and drying handmade papers as well as creative and unique ways to use the long fibers of the paper mulberry and other plants.  Information about getting kozo fibers and a Japanese-style sugeta as well as growing your own fibers for Japanese papermaking will be shared in this workshop.  No experience required, but some papermaking experience will be helpful.

Going Wild with Color in Hand Papermaking

Date:  April 20, 10 am to 4 pm 

Class Feet:  $150 (includes materials and use of equipment)

This one-day class will be an introduction to using color in 2 and 3-dimensional hand papermaking art.  Learn to use non-toxic fiber reactive dyes and natural dyes from local plants and purchased sources to color paper pulps such as abaca, kozo, cotton and local plant fibers.  Learn about the advantages of using dye for paper pulp as well as pigments.  Also, use papermaking fibers from local plants that have their own beautiful natural colors.  Go wild with color and explore using pulp painting, stenciling and other unique ways to introduce more color into your handmade paper art.  No experience necessary, though experienced papermakers will also learn many new and original coloring methods and techniques.  If you are a painter or like color in your work, this is the workshop for you. 

EXTREME Papermaking !!/ More EXTREME Papermaking

May 4 and 5, 2024, 10 am to 4 pm each day

Class Fee:  $300 (materials and equipment provided)

This two-day class is open only to those who have taken my EXTREME Papermaking class already and want to do more! This class will cover more and different EXTREME papermaking techniques including burning, hole making, stitching, and other really BIG paper methods and other techniques to enrich and enliven your handmade paper art. Enjoy this time with others who have taken the EXTREME Papermaking workshop at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology in Summer 2023 or who have taken the EXTREME Papermaking class at my home studio in Santa Rosa in 2023.   If you can think it, we will do it!  

Plants for Papermaking

Dates:  May 18 & 19, 10 am to 4 pm each day

Cost:  $300 (includes materials and use of equipment)

Class Fee:  $300 (includes materials and use of equipment)

This will be a two-day class to go from plant to handmade paper and learn to control the whole process of making paper “from scratch” using ordinary household equipment and supplies.  Learn how to collect, what to collect, and how to prepare leaves, bark and stems of certain plants to make great handmade paper for 2 and 3-dimensional projects.  We will make handmade paper all from materials that we prepare in this class from local plant materials.  We will collect, cook, beat and make paper from at least two different plants we gather near my house and use several others I have already prepared that are found in Northern California.  Learn about plants and useful fibers and create beautiful site-specific handmade papers for use in your own artwork.  For beginners and experienced papermakers who want to learn to make unique paper from local sources. 

Design Your Own Private Papermaking Class

Dates:   one day or two-day class to be arranged for private individual work with me, 10 am to 4 pm each day

Class Fee:  $500 for one day or $800 for two consecutive days

Contact me to design and schedule your own unique class to work in my studio on your next project.  This will be one-on-one learning in my studio using the equipment and supplies and pulps that you want to use from my stock, such as abaca, kozo, cotton blue jean pulp, specific local plant pulps that I can prepare or other materials you want to bring.  I will offer advice, encouragement, give suggestions and teach you ways of doing what you want for specific projects and works that you have in mind.  This will be more of a collaborative process and good for those who know what they want to achieve but don’t have a studio space or the equipment or the knowledge at this time to work entirely on their own.  Two days are recommended, but one-day private workshops can also be arranged.

About the Instructor:

Jane Ingram Allen is a multi-media artist who does art projects around the world using hand papermaking with natural materials and collaborative processes to raise public awareness about environmental and social issues.  Jane has received numerous awards for artist-in-residencies and community public art projects in the USA, the Philippines, Japan, Nepal, Brazil, China, Tanzania, Taiwan, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Switzerland, England and Costa Rica.  She was a Fulbright Scholar artist-in-residence in Taiwan in 2004 and 2005 and a Fulbright Specialist in Turkey in 2015.  She received Puffin Foundation Grants in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2022 to support her art installations in New York and MA. She has also received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation, NYFA, NEA, City of Sacramento, City of Santa Rosa, Sonoma Creates and other organizations around the world to support her work.  Jane begins her artwork by making handmade paper from local plant waste and using materials and techniques that contribute to sustainable living and improve the environment.  Jane is a former college art instructor and writes about art for SCULPTURE, Fiber Art Now and other art magazines as well as doing independent curating.  She also teaches workshops in papermaking and other arts and has taught at Women’s Studio Workshop, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Peter’s Valley School of Craft, Brookfield Craft Center, and Morgan Paper Conservatory as well as at colleges and universities, museums and art centers in the US and other countries. Since 2012 she has been based in Santa Rosa, CA, and continues her work in the US and internationally.

Email: info@janeingramallen.com

Phone:  857-234-243

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Jane Ingram Allen and collaborating artist Jami Taback will exhibit their installation titled In “Deep Water – We’re All in This Together” at Live Forever Foundation’s Vital Space Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan, Dec. 2, 2023 – April 2, 2024. The two Northern California artists began collaborating on this project in August 2021 and have continued to add to the installation, exhibiting it at 4 different galleries in the US in 2022 and 2023. This will be its first international presentation. The Taiwan exhibition of “In Deep Water” is part of a group show titled “Water Says” curated by independent curator Iris (Ping-chi) Hung). Jane and Jami have received support from the Live Forever Foundation for travel to Taiwan and to teach a workshop on hand papermaking and printmaking and to share their process and ideas about our current global climate crisis. The artists will be in Taiwan doing a site-specific installation and related public programs, Nov. 23 – Dec. 4, 2023.  Public Opening Reception and Gallery Talk, Dec. 2, 2023; Workshop, Dec. 3, 2023. 

For more info!https://ocula.com/institutions/live-forever/

Photos of the California “In Deep Water” installations are by Timothy S. Allen. The photo of the Rowan University installation is courtesy of Rowan University Art Gallery Director, Mary Salvante.