If you are interested in taking one of my February Papermaking Workshops at my Santa Rosa, CA studio, contact me right away as the classes are filling up fast.  Registration will be on a first come, first served basis, and you need to send at least half of the fee to guarantee your place.  You can pay with a credit card using PayPal (www.paypal.com) or contact Jane by email to get her address to send a check.  No more than 5 people will be in each workshop.  Email to info@janeingramallen.com

 Making handmade paper in Izmir, Turkey during my Fulbright Specialist grant project in Nov. – Dec. 2015.

Here again is the information on the papermaking workshops offered in Santa Rosa CA in February 2018:

Introduction to Hand Papermaking:  Explore basic techniques of Western papermaking including sheet forming, pressing and drying as well as decorative techniques of laminating, embedding and watermarking.  Create an array of handmade papers using cotton, abaca and local plant fibers.

• Saturday, February 10, 10AM to 4PM. Pre-register by Feb. 2; email to info@janeingramallen.com or phone 857-234-2432.
• Cost $90 – Materials and equipment provided *

Exotic Fibers for Papermaking:   Learn Japanese and Western techniques for papermaking and create an array of handmade papers from unusual fibers such as abaca, kozo (paper mulberry bark), spruce bark, and eucalyptus bark gathered locally.

• Saturday, February 24, 2018, 10AM to 4PM. Pre-register by Feb. 16; email to info@janeingramallen.com or phone 857-234-2432.
• Cost: $90 – Materials and equipment provided *

*Discounts Available:  $10 off for taking a 2^nd workshop; $10 off for recommending a friend who signs up for a workshop.

Here are some photos of my Open Studio and the hand papermaking activity I offered on Nov. 4 and 5, 2017, at my new art studio in the Studio Santa Rosa, Studio 107, 3840 Finley Ave., Santa Rosa, CA.  Contact me by email  (info@janeingramallen.com) for more information about commissions, workshops, classes and artist in residency projects.

On November 4 and 5 from 11AM to 5PM everyone is invited to come by to see my new studio in Santa Rosa, CA, at 3840 Finley Ave., Building 32, Studio 107. I will have some hand papermaking activities going on, and you can join in if you want or just see the new space and some of my work on display. This weekend is the annual Open Studios for the Studio Santa Rosa, and many other art studios in the building will be open to the public. Hope to see you!

Here are some photos of some of my handmade paper artworks on display inside my space (#107) and outside in the hallway.

“Sitka Site Map” created during my residency at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology hanging in my new studio space

hallway outside my studio showing my handmade paper and string wall installation titled “Northern California Rivers”

Another view of the hallway with my “rivers” installation.

installation in my studio space of “Shadow Self Portrait”

lobby of Building 32 with my “Taiwan Site Map” hanging in one corner

Jane Ingram Allen is one of 16 artists invited to exhibit in the exhibition “In Our Nature” curated by Meridith McNeal at the Corridor Gallery of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation located at 334 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.  The exhibition opened on September 10, 2017, and continues through November 19, 2017.  The exhibition features art focused on nature and the state of our environment.  See the website at http://rushphilanthropic.org/exhibition/in-our-nature/ for more information about gallery hours and location.

In this show Jane is exhibiting two of her “Brooklyn Site Maps” created in 2003 during an artist-in-residency project at Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY (http://www.kentlergallery.org).  Below is a view of the current exhibition at Corridor Gallery with Jane’s “Red Hook Site Map” in the right foreground and a “Brooklyn Site Map” near the left end of the wall.  Jane created these map artworks using mixed media on handmade paper made in Brooklyn and collected debris from the streets of Red Hook to use in her interpretive maps of these areas of NYC.  Here is a link to more about the 2003 project Jane did at Kentler International Drawing Space:

http://www.kentlergallery.org/MultiSearch/Index?search=jane+ingram+allen

Here is a link to a review of the “In Our Nature” exhibition:

What’s In Your Nature?

My artist-in-residency project at Newnan Art Rez (www.newnanartist.org) in Newnan, Georgia, “Living Quilt for Newnan”, was installed on August 31, 2017. Just a few days after the installation Hurricane Irma arrived.  The art installation survived this latest hurricane to strike Florida and the southeastern coast of the US. My “Living Quilt for Newnan” installation consists of a handmade paper quilt in a house pattern with seeds for wildflowers in the pulp to transform over time into a living blooming work of art. The quilt is installed on a “flower bed” of soil with a headboard and footboard I made with local branches and vines. The installation seems to have survived well the heavy rain and winds in the Newnan area.  There were some power outages in the area that lasted a few days.  We wish all the people in the areas hit by the two recent US hurricanes all the best.

Here are some photos of the art installation in Newnan taken a few days after the installation and before the hurricane showing the transformation beginning and plants starting to appear as the handmade paper dissolves.

The last group of photos are showing the installation after Hurricane Irma came through last week. You can see the plants are growing bigger, and there are lots of loose twigs and leaves on the ground from the storm. These two sets of photos are by artist and Newnan Art Rez board member, Bette Hickman. Thank you, Bette!

I will continue to post photos on this Blog when I receive them from the people in Newnan. Hope the “living quilt” will grow well and provide lots of flowers for people in Newnan to enjoy.