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“In Deep Water” Exhibition at Sonoma Community Center Gallery, Sonoma, CA, January 15-31, 2022

10 Monday Jan 2022

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The exhibition of a collaborative art project titled “In Deep Water” by artists Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback opens on Saturday, January 15, at Sonoma Community Center Gallery, Sonoma, CA.  The project is focused on the current climate crisis and water and makes use of Jane’s handmade paper skills and Jami’s printmaking expertise to create a multi-media multi-part large-scale installation combining printmaking and hand papermaking.  The work will be installed from Jan 15 to Jan. 31 at the Sonoma Community Center Gallery, Sonoma, CA. All the details are on the Sonoma Community Center website now at this link: https://sonomacommunitycenter.org/in-deep-water-endangered/

The opening reception for the “In Deep Water” exhibition which also includes works by Paul Ford will be on January 15, 1-4pm at the Sonoma Community Center Gallery. The Artists Talks will be live and also via Zoom on Sat. Jan. 15 at 2 pm.

Topic: Artist talk: In Deep Water (Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback) and Endangered (Paul Ford)
Time: Jan 15, 2022 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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This exhibition of “In Deep Water” is supported in part by an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The project will expand and continue in 2022 and 2023 with exhibitions at other venues.
Here is a preliminary photo of some of the work in this project, and more photos will be posted soon after all of the 12 panels are installed later this week in the gallery.

“In Deep Water” installation detail by Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, photo by Timothy S. Allen

There will also be a Demonstration of papermaking and printmaking on Sunday, January 23, at 2 pm in the Sonoma Community Center Print Studio. Come see how the processes the artists used to make this collaborative art project using a variety of hand papermaking and printmaking techniques.

For the opening reception and Artists Talks on Jan. 16 and the Demonstrations on Jan. 26, all Covid protocols will be followed with masks and social distancing and limited numbers allowed in the gallery. Contact Jane by email at info@janeingramallen.com for more information.

Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for 2022

23 Thursday Dec 2021

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View of “In Deep Water” installation by Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, in progress on Nov. 19, 2021

I am happy to report the receipt of an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to help support the exhibition of “In Deep Water” at Sonoma Community Center Gallery, Sonoma, California, January 15 to 31, 2022. This collaborative project with printmaking artist Jami Taback results in a mixed-media multi-part installation combining hand papermaking and printmaking and about the climate crisis and water. This grant is for the unexpected opportunity to exhibit this work at the Sonoma Community Center Gallery for two weeks in January 2022. We have also been selected to exhibit this project at Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA, in Nov. – Dec. 2022, and we will continue working to expand the installation creating more panels to make site-specific installations in multiple venues. We hope to exhibit this work at other places in the US and internationally in 2022 and 2023. The grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts is a great holiday gift! And we are so thankful to be able to do this in-person exhibition at a great gallery space. We are planning a gallery talk and opening at Sonoma Community Center the weekend of January 15-16, 2022, so watch for an update in early January to set the date and time for these events. Joy and Peace to all in 2022.

“Living Quilt for Steckborn” still blooming in Switzerland

28 Sunday Nov 2021

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Yesterday I received email from Haus zur Glocke art center in Steckborn, Switzerland, to report that my “living quilt” installed there on the shores of Lake Constance in Switzerland on April 26, 2021, is still blooming, even in November! Haus zur Glocke plans to leave the installation in place over the winter and hope for the wildflowers to return in the spring. It’s wonderful to have this documentation of the continuing transformation of my “living quilts” that are created with handmade paper and wildflowers seeds. Here’s the photo taken by a Steckborn viewer on November 21, 2021.

Updates on Art Activities, Fall 2021

06 Wednesday Oct 2021

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Updates on Art Activities from Jane Ingram Allen

Papermking Workshops 

Intro. to Papermaking Workshop on 10/2/21

Introduction to Papermaking workshop on Saturday, Oct. 2, 10AM to 4pm.  This class was a great group, and here is a photo from the outdoor papermaking workshop.   I will offer more papermaking classes at my Santa Rosa studio in the Fall and Winter.  Send email if you want information about future papermaking workshops. 

Fall 2021 Exhibitions

Gallery Route One Project Space, “WEAD Extraction Exhibition”, Point Reyes Station, CA, opened Sept. 18 and continues to Oct. 24, 2021,  The virtual opening via Zoom was on Sept. 18, and another Zoom program with artists talks about the exhibition was on Sept. 30.  For information about this exhibition see www.galleryrouteone.org and www.weadartistslorg

My work in this show is a site-specific installation titled “Point Reyes Waterways”: https://www.weadartists.org/upcoming-events

Point Reyes Waterways, 9 feet x 6 feet wall installation

I will also make a presentation for local high school students through the Gallery Route One Artists in Schools Program, about my work in the ”Extraction” show and its relationship to extraction water issues and the environment.

Change – 2021 International Paper Fibre Biennale, Taiwan Crafts Research Institute, Exhibition Hall, Caotun, Nantou County, Taiwan, opens November 2021 and closes April 2022.  My work in this exhibition is an interactive sculptural work of handmade paper titled “Scrolls” created during the first 99 days of quarantine in California for the Covid 19 pandemic.  For information about this exhibition in Taiwan: https://biennialartpaperfibre.com/2020/09/24/2021-22-edition-of-the-paper-fibre-art-biennial/

Daily Scrolls, 2020, handmade paper and recycled wire grid, 14″ x 14″ x 4″

“Living Quilt for Nestucca”, Nestucca Valley K-8 School, Otis, Oregon, public eco-art installation, created as a visiting artist with the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Summer Youth Program.  This handmade paper quilt with seeds in the pulp to grow and bloom is sited in the school’s garden and will continue to change over time.   Watch for postings in the Spring when wildflowers begin to bloom.  Here is the Sitka Center website for more information about the summer youth 

program:  https://www.sitkacenter.org/blog/summer-youth-arts-announcement

Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley, 2021, 8 feet x 10 feet x 5 feet

This art project was featured in ART NEWS on Sept. 8, 2021:  https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/jane-ingram-allen-living-quilts-1234603170/

Ongoing Public Art Installations

“Living Quilt for Steckborn”, on the shore of Lake Constance in Steckborn, Switzerland, created in April 2021, in cooperation with Haus zur Glocke Art Center, Steckborn, Switzerland, www.hauszurglocke.ch

Living Quilt for Steckborn, installed in April 2021 in Steckborn, Switzerland
Living Quilt for Steckborn in September 2021, showing blooming wildflowers

“Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth”, Sojourner Truth Park and Community Garden, Sacramento, CA, created as an Artist in Residence for the City of Sacramento Office of Arts & Culture, installed in November 2020 and continuing to change over time.  Here is a link for information about the City of Sacramento program:  https://arts.cityofsacramento.org/Programs/Sacramento-AIR

Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth installed in Nov. 2020
Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth, Sacramento, CA, in June 2021

“Living Quilt for Santa Rosa”, Rincon Ridge Park, Santa Rosa, CA, created in Nov. 2018 with grant from City of Santa Rosa, and continuing to change over time.

“Guns Into Flowers”, South Natomas Community Center Park, Sacramento, CA, created in March 2019 with students at Natomas Charter School of the Arts, and continuing to change over time.
Guns Into Flowers living quilt in June 2021
Making Blue handmade paper in my Santa Rosa studio for “In Deep Water” project, Oct. 2021

Upcoming Art Project , “In Deep Water”, a collaborative ecoart project with printmaker Jami Taback.  This project will explore combining papermaking and printmaking to create a multi-part large scale installation focused on the climate crisis and water.  Jami and I are seeking grants and exhibition spaces for exhibitions of the work created during this collaboration and hope to travel the work internationally in 2022 and 2023.  Follow my Blog at https://janeingramallen.wordpress.com for updates and other art activities.

New Wall Installation Up Now in Point Reyes Station, CA

16 Thursday Sep 2021

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My new art installation titled “Point Reyes Waterways” is up now at Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA. This wall installation of handmade paper and thread is part of the Women Eco Artists Dialog (www.weadartists.org) Extraction Exhibition in the Project Space at Gallery Route One, a non-profit exhibition space with a focus on works connected to the environment. This show is organized by WEAD and part of the huge multi-country, multi-gallery project called Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss (https://www.extractionart.org/home).

“Point Reyes Waterways” focuses on Extraction and Water.  Extraction is a problem because of how we extract what we extract and how much we take without nature being able to replenish it.  We almost have to extract something to make anything and to live.  My focus is on over-extraction of water, a necessary element for life.  Over-use and extraction of underground water causes land subsidence.  Global warming and climate change are causing droughts, flooding, rising sea levels and other catastrophic events involving water.  This site-specific wall installation of handmade paper, cotton thread and seeds for blue wildflowers highlights the waterways of Point Reyes, and by leaving the land as negative space makes us more aware of the water. 

detail of “Point Reyes Waterways” 2021 at Extraction Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
“Point Reyes Waterways”, 9 feet x 6 feet wall installation of handmade paper, dye, thread, seeds for blue wildflowers

This work and the “Extraction” exhibition will be on view in Pt. Reyes Station at Gallery Route One Project Space, September 18 to October 24, 2021. For more information about gallery hours and the public programs for this exhibition: https://galleryrouteone.org/exhibits/upcoming/

My “Living Quilts” are featured today in ART NEWS

08 Wednesday Sep 2021

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I am happy to announce that my “Living Quilts” are featured in today’s ART NEWS publication. Art writer Julia Travers contacted me recently about writing a feature for ART NEWS about my outdoor public art installations “Living Quilts” that make use of handmade paper with seeds for wildflowers in the pulp to grow and change over time into living blooming artworks. This article talks mainly about my most recent living quilt made in the Summer Youth Art Program of Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, Oregon (www.sitkacenter.org)

Installing the “Living Quilt for Nestucca” on August 12, 2021, at Nestucca K-12 School Garden, Cloverdale, OR

This ART NEWS article also mentions other Living Quilts I have done in Santa Rosa, CA, with the City of Santa Rosa Public Art Program in 2018, and in 2019 in Newnan, Georgia, with the Newnan Art Rez program. 

The photos for the Art News article are all by my husband Timothy S. Allen https://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com

Here is the link to the ART NEWS article: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/jane-ingram-allen-living-quilts-1234603170/

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New Art Project in Oregon – Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley

18 Sunday Jul 2021

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The first two weeks in August I will be a visiting artist at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology (www.sitkacenter.org) to work with their new Summer Youth Program and create a “living quilt” art installation at the Nestucca Valley Elementary School grounds. My “living quilts” are site specific outdoor art installations meant to change over time and work with nature as a partner. The “quilts” are made with handmade paper in a selected quilt pattern, and the pulp has seeds for wildflowers in the same colors and pattern. The “quilt” is installed on a prepared bed, and over time the paper dissolves into compost to nourish the earth, and the seeds sprout and grow into a blooming flower bed.

For this quilt, we are using a quilt design representing three of the most pressing environmental problems in this coastal Oregon region: salmon preservation, forest preservation and water conservation. Here is a photo of one of the quilt squares I made this week in my Santa Rosa, CA, studio to try out the design for Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley. I will be doing papermaking workshops with the kids during the two weeks, August 1 – 13, and we expect to install the 8 feet x 10 feet quilt on August 12, 2021. We will make 24 of these 16″ x 21″ squares and borders with tree images at the top and bottom and on each side. Keep watching this Blog for updates on the project and photos of the process.

One square of “Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley”
Sketch for “Living Quilt for Nestucca Valley” showing the 24 quilt blocks and the borders.

Living Quilt for Steckborn is blooming now with many red poppies!

10 Saturday Jul 2021

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My outdoor art installation in Steckborn, Switzerland titled “Living Quilt for Steckborn” is now blooming well with many red poppies. I created this artwork in my California studio and shipped it to Switzerland for installation in April 2021. The artwork has a handmade paper quilt in the “Peaks and Valleys” pattern with seeds for wildflowers in the pulp to grow and change over time. The installation has grown well thanks to the good care from the staff at Haus zur Glocke, an art center in Steckborn, Switzerland. This project was done with the cooperation of Haus zur Glocke Curator Judi Villiger and the city of Steckborn and installed by volunteers. I participates in the April installation by Internet because travel was not possible during the pandemic.

This photo shows the Living Quilt for Steckborn installation blooming on July 10, 2021. The photo was sent to me by Judit Villiger, Director and Curator at Haus zur Glocke. There are so many red poppies now, and I hope we can see some more yellow, white and blue wildflowers soon. I also put another photo here of how the “quilt” looked when it was installed in Steckborn back in April. “Living Quilt for Steckborn” remains on view in Steckborn, Switzerland, and you can also see some of my other living quilt installations blooming now in Sacramento, California at Sojourner Truth Park, and in Santa Rosa, California, at Rincon Ridge Park.

Happy 4th of July!

03 Saturday Jul 2021

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On this Independence Day in 2021, let’s celebrate our country as we recognize its imperfections and inequalities and strive to improve it. It is continually evolving and still a work in process. Here are images of a few of the many American Flag artworks I have created over the years.

“Blowin’ in the Wind”, 1992, 5 feet x 12 feet, artist-made handmade paper, string, acrylic paint, mylar, commissioned by ASCAP (American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers) and Morton Gould for the organization’s boardroom at their Lincoln Center headquarters in New York City.
Rainbow Flag, 1992, 4 feet x 6 feet, acrylic paint, string, on artist made handmade paper, now in a private collection.
Flag in Two Pieces, 1992, 3 feet x 50 inches x 12 inches, artist-made handmade paper, string, acrylic paint, now in private collection.
“Living Flag”, 2003, 6 feet x 3 feet, handmade paper, dye, seeds for wildflowers, soil, outdoor public art installation to change over time, created during artist in residency at Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (now Delaware Contemporary), Wilmington, DE, to change over time into living blooming wildflowers as the paper pulp dissolves into mulch to nourish the earth.

More Blooms at Living Quilt for Steckborn Installation in Switzerland

29 Tuesday Jun 2021

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Here is a photo taken on June 25, 2021, by Judit Villiger in Steckborn, Switzerland, of my April 2021 “Living Quilt” installation of handmade paper with seeds in the pulp to change over time and produce a living blooming artwork. This photo shows red poppies and yellow gold poppies blooming as well as white wildflowers. Hope to see some blue wildflowers too in a few more days. This art installation was supported by the Haus zur Glocke art center and the city of Steckborn and is sited on the shores of Lake Constance.

Living Quilt for Steckborn, art installation by Jane Ingram Allen, on June 23, 2021, with blooming poppies. Thank you to Judit Villiger of Haus zur Glocke for sending this photo!