My Solo Exhibition in Santa Rosa, CA, continues through April 30, 2025, and a new date has been set for the Artist Lecture and Opening Reception.
Jane Ingram Allen – Handmade Paper Art
March 3 – MAY 30, 2025 (THIS EXHIBITION IS NOW EXTENDED TILL MAY 30, 2025)
Spring Lake Village Art Gallery
5555 Montgomery Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Opening Reception & Artist Lecture:
New Date, Saturday April 12, 3:45 – 5 pm
This solo exhibition is a survey of selected works I created with my handmade paper over the past 25 years. It includes works from my travels as an artist to many different countries and parts of the US as well as works made since moving to California in 2012 to the present.
One of 80+ handmade paper artworks in this exhibition, Fire and Water 6, 36 x 24 inches, handmade kozo and abaca paper, dye, thread, acrylic gel, holes and controlled burning, made in Santa Rosa, CA, 2025.
Hope to see you at the Reception on April 12, 2025! Or, contact me at info@janeingramallen.com or by cell phone: 857-234-2432 to view the exhibition at another time before it closes on April 30, 2025.
Spring 2025 Papermaking Art Classes in Santa Rosa, CA, are all Full!
Contact me at info@janeingramallen.com if you want to receive my Fall 2025 Schedule of Papermaking Classes at my studio in Santa Rosa, CA.
Workshop Participant making paper with Kozo fibers.
Exhibition Announcement:
Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, In Deep Water – Confluenc
Opening reception and Gallery Talk: June 28, 4-6pm
This exhibition will be the 2nd exhibition on the East Coast of our “In Deep Water” project about water and climate change. This collaborative project with printmaking artist Jami Taback began in 2020 and has also been presented at 3 venues in Northern California and in Taiwan. The presentation in Narrowsburg is happening at the same time as the community’s annual Riverfest that celebrates the Delaware River. For more information: https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/exhibition/jane-ingram-allen-jami-taback-in-deep-water/?back=ago
Jane Ingram Allen & Jami Taback, In Deep Water – Taiwan, installation of 36 panels of handmade paper and printmaking joined with threads, Live Forever Foundation Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan, 2023-24
The WEAD (Women Eco-Artists Dialog www.weadartists.org) juried online member exhibition “Lands and Symbiotic Futures” has concluded.
I had one work selected for this online exhibition, “Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve”, an outdoor installation consisting of a large handmade paper leaf in the shape of a Pepperwood tree leaf with seeds for native grasses in the pulp to grow over time in symbiotic relationship with the land.
Jane Ingram Allen, Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve, 3 x 10 x 1 feet, handmade paper, dye, soil, seeds for native grasses, wood boards, 2023-24, installed at Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA
Spring Lake Village’s Covid 19 outbreak is almost over, and the reception and artist’s talk for Jane’s exhibition has now been re-scheduled for Saturday, April 11, 2025.
You are invited to the reception for the exhibition “Jane Ingram Allen – Handmade Paper Art” at Spring Lake Village Art Gallery, 5555 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95409. The new date for the reception and Artist’s Talk is Saturday, April 11, 2025. The Gallery Talk will begin in the Auditorium at 3:45 pm, and the reception will follow in the Art Room.
Visitors who want to attend should contact Jane (857)234-2432, email: info@janeingramallen.com or the Art Committee Contact Les Saldanha (318) 557-1434, email: saldanhales@hotmail.com
The exhibition continues through April 30, 2025, and tours can be set up for any day of the week or on Saturdays or Sundays. Visitors should stop at the gate for instructions on parking and how to get to the art gallery.
This image shows one of more than 80 works in the exhibition that Jane has created from 2000-2025.
Jane Ingram Allen, Bali Site Map, 45″ x 78 inches, handmade paper from plants of Bali, threads, acrylic paint and collage with materials from Bali, Indonesia, made at Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali, in 2009.
Because of an outbreak of COVID at Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa, CA, all events there have to be postponed. The Jane Ingram Allen Gallery Talk and Opening Reception scheduled for Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 3:45 to 5 pm will be re-scheduled as soon as it’s possible to do so safely. Keep watching here for updates, or contact Jane for more information: 857-234-2432 or info@janeingramallen.com
Jane Ingram Allen, “Grid Play” detail, 2024, handmade paper, dye, thread, 24″ x 78″ x 4″
Gallery Hours: M-F, 8:30 am – 7:30 pm, Sat. & Sun. 8:30 am – 3 pm
Visitors should contact Jane or the Art Committee Contact below to schedule a visit or a Gallery Tour. Please stop at the gate for parking pass and directions to the art gallery when you arrive.
Art Committee Contact: Les Saldanha, Cell phone (318) 557-1434, email: saldanhales@hotmail.com
Opening Reception and Artist Lecture for Spring Lake Community Residents and Special Guests
Saturday, March 8, 3:45 – 5 pm. Opening and Artist Talk POSTPONED because of COVID Outbreak at Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa, announced on March 4, 2025!
Lecture 3:45 pm in Auditorium; Reception in Art Room immediately following.
Jane Ingram Allen, Kinmen Site Map – Blue Butterfly, 48 x 75 inches, two-sided, handmade paper from plants of Kinmen, thread, acrylic paint and gel, other materials collected on Kinmen, made in Kinmen, Taiwan, 2005
New Class Added – My Kozo/Japanese Papermaking Class on March 22, 2025, is already full, so I am adding another class the following Saturday, March 29, for more people who are interested in learning Japanese hand papermaking techniques and using Kozo fibers. The wonderful exhibition at the Sonoma Valley Museum, “Book Becoming Art” has generated lots of interest in Japanese papermaking!
Celebrating Kozo – Exploring Japanese Papermaking
Dates: Saturday, March 29, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (includes materials and equipment)
Instructor: Jane Ingram Allen
Location: Jane’s home and studio, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409 (in the Rincon Valley area on Santa Rosa’s Northeast side).
Learn to make paper with Japanese Kozo (paper mulberry bark) and other plant fibers in the Japanese way to create 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 Kozo fiber I order from Mino City, Japan, where I was an artist in residence for 3 months in 1999 and returned in 2009. Also, other locally-available Mulberry tree fibers and various plant fibers will be used in the Japanese way to create unique handmade paper. We will use an authentic sugeta (wooden frame and bamboo woven screen) as well as Western molds & deckles (wooden frames 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 and gathering your own fibers for Japanese papermaking will be shared in this workshop. No experience required, but some papermaking experience will be helpful.
To register for the class: Send check or money order for the class fee by mail to Jane Ingram Allen, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, or pay the fee with a credit card using PayPal (www.paypal.com) and send money to info@janeingramallen.com Class size is limited to five people! Jane will contact you by email as soon as your money is received, and she will be in touch to send complete instructions for the class and handouts as we get closer to the date.
Jane Ingram Allen, Open Sky, made in Costa Rica with mulberry bark handmade paper, 2023
Jane Ingram Allen making handmade paper leaves in Spring 2023 at her Santa Rosa studio. All photos in this post by Timothy S. Allen, allentimphotos2.wordpress.com
Location of Classes: Jane Ingram Allen’s studio, 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 (www.paypal.com) to “send money” to info@janeingramallen.com with a credit card. Class size is limited to 5 people, and registration will be confirmed after receipt of the class fee. For more information call or email.
Schedule of Classes
Celebrating Kozo – Exploring Japanese Papermaking
Kozo and Mixed fibers from Costa Rica, 2023
Dates: Saturday, March 22, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (includes materials and equipment)
Learn to make paper with Japanese Kozo (paper mulberry bark) and other plant fibers in the Japanese way to create 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 Kozo fiber I order from Mino City, Japan, where I was an artist in residence for 3 months in 1999 and returned in 2009. Also, other locally-available Mulberry tree fibers and various plant fibers will be used in the Japanese way to create unique handmade paper. 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.
EXTREME Papermaking
Making Really BIG Handmade Paper
Date: Saturday, April 26, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (includes materials and equipment)
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This class will stretch your imagination about the possibilities for handmade paper art. It will cover many unique and non-traditional EXTREME papermaking techniques including making really BIG paper, shaped handmade paper, pouring pulp, modeling pulp, burning handmade paper, tearing it and making holes and other techniques Jane has invented and discovered in places around the world. This class will include making paper thread, making sounds with paper, kinetic paper, living paper art installations and other extreme techniques to enliven your art. Enrich your handmade paper art and expand its possibilities. This class is for beginners and experienced papermakers.
Going Wild with Color in Hand Papermaking
3-D Pulp Painting by Jane Ingram Allen, 2024
Date: Saturday, May 17, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Feet: $175 (includes materials and equipment)
This class will focus on 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 using 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, printmaker, sculptor or fiber artist and like color in your work, this is the workshop for you.
Sculptural Papermaking – Creating 3-Dimensional handmade paper art
Small Sculpture by Jane Ingram Allen with Twigs and Burned handmade paper dried on rusty washer.
Date: Saturday, June 21, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (includes materials and equipment)
This class will expand your papermaking into three dimensions by introducing various ways to make handmade paper sculptural forms, including use of molds, drying on 3-D surfaces, construction techniques, modeling with pulp and using armatures. We will use abaca, cotton, Kozo and other plant fiber pulps to get different sculptural effects. Participants will create new sculptural handmade paper works that are free-standing, suspended and wall reliefs and come away with many ideas for handmade paper sculpture and installation art. This workshop is for beginning and experienced papermakers and will expand your skills into the 3rd dimension and beyond.
Private Sessions – Design Your Own Private Papermaking Session
Outdoor public art installation by Jane Ingram Allen, “Living Quilt for Santa Rosa”, 2018 – present, Rincon Ridge Park, Santa Rosa, CA, changing over time to produce living bed of wildflowers.
Dates: To be arranged between 9 am to 5 pm each day, Weekdays and weekends are possible, and the cost can be split for two people who work well together.
Private Session Fee: $90 per hour (4-hour minimum) includes use of my studio and equipment and my teaching/consulting services). Materials can be prepared and provided, and a materials fee will be worked out for each participant.
Contact me to design and schedule your own unique session to work in my studio on your next project. Participants must have taken at least one class with me before in order to know how to use the studio and the equipment. This will be a private papermaking session 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, or others that I can prepare plus any other materials I have or that you want to bring. I will offer advice, encouragement, give suggestions and teach you ways of doing what you want for specific projects that you have in mind. This will be ideal for those who know what they want to achieve but don’t have a studio space or the equipment or the knowledge of specific techniques at this time to work entirely on their own.
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, Creative Sonoma 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 is the founder of the Black Sheep Handweavers Guild and active in WEAD, NCWCA, IAPMA and other organizations. She also teaches workshops in papermaking and other arts and has taught classes 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.
My artwork “Poppies in the Sky” is featured in FEMINA 24, a group exhibition of 15 selected regional female artists at Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA, https://gallery.sofiegallery.com. The show opened on Nov. 7, 2024, and continues to Feb. 14, 2025. Sofie Contemporary Art is open on Calistoga’s main street from Thurs. – Sun. 11 am to 4 pm. I am also happy to report that one of my works in the exhibition, “Poppies in the Sky”, has been purchased by a collector from Virginia visiting in the Calistoga area.
Jane Ingram Allen, “Pepperwood Leaves, 2022 installation
“Pepperwood Leaves – a Re-installation” is now on exhibition at Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA. My art installation is part of the group exhibition titled “The Majesty of Trees” curated by Ben Benson, Pepperwood’s Cultural Resources Coordinator, and the show will extend into January 2025. My “Pepperwood Leaves” installation consists of multiple handmade paper Pepperwood tree (California Bay Laurel) leaves in shades of orange and purple with seeds for native grasses in the pulp. This work celebrates the Pepperwood Tree that the Preserve is named after. This work was originally created in Fall 2023 as part of my Creative Sonoma, Art Surround grant project. This re-installation of the work is just outside the gallery entrance on the 2nd floor of the Dwight Center for Environmental Science, located at 2130 Pepperwood Preserve Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. For an appointment to see the art gallery, email: iluevano@pepperwoodpreserve.org There will be educational programs and talks by the artists later in November and December.
“Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve” in WEAD online exhibition “Lands and Symbiotic Futures”. My outdoor installation “Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve” was selected for the online curated exhibition of WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) www.weadartists.org. The exhibition is available for online viewing and runs from Oct. 2, 2024 into 2025. My artwork “Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve” was also part of my Creative Sonoma Art Surround grant project at Pepperwood Preserve in Fall 2023, and was on view through January 2023 on the grounds in front of the Dwight Center at Pepperwood Preserve. The work was a transformative piece with seeds for native grasses in the paper pulp that sprouted over time to produce an 8’ x 10’ living Pepperwood tree shaped leaf in the landscape. This WEAD online exhibition titled “Lands and Symbiotic Futures” Is available for viewing at this link: https://www.weadartists.org/exhibitions
Zoom talks by some of the artists in the exhibition are scheduled for Nov. and Dec. 2024. Visit the WEAD website for more information about the exhibition and the Artist Talks: https://www.weadartists.org/artistspresentations
Jane ingram Allen, “Legal Pad with Grocery List”, 1975
My work is added to the collection of the Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA.
A curator from the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, CA, recently visited my studio in Santa Rosa, CA, to see my work in person. The curator was especially interested in my early feminist works in weaving and fiber arts from the 1970s when I lived in the South Bay and taught weaving and fiber arts at Foothill College and Canada College. I also showed the Crocker Curator my later and current works in handmade paper that still make use of many fiber materials and techniques. My work from 1975 “Legal Pad with Grocery List” is now part of the Crocker’s collection and will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Crocker about feminist works from the 1970s.
“Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, ”In Deep Water – Taiwan”, 2022-24
“In Deep Water” with collaborator Jami Taback will be exhibited in NY State in Summer 2025. Our “In Deep Water” installation artwork with handmade paper and printmaking will be exhibited at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY, June 28 2025 to August 3, 2025. I am hoping to travel to Hawley, PA, where Jami moved in March 2024, to visit her and help with the site installation in nearby Narrowsburg, NY, and also participate in some public programs for this exhibition. We were honored to be selected by the DVAA for this important slot in their 2025 exhibition schedule, since this is a time when many visitors come to the beautiful area along the Delaware River for the community’s annual Riverfest. For more information see the website at https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org
Jane Ingram Allen, Fire & Water 5, Burning Forest, 2024
My new Series “Fire and Water” continues. My handmade paper series of works in 2024 using handmade paper, stencils, dye, burning and hole making continues with another piece that features burned tree trunks and orange and smoky blue handmade paper. This work, #5 in the series, is about 4 feet square and hangs suspended in space to experience the holes and the translucent kozo fiber handmade paper.
Jane Ingram Allen, Handmade Paper Sculptures – Bird Watching in Japan, 1999
New Papermaking Art Classes to be announced in 2025. The Fall 2024 papermaking classes I taught at my Santa Rosa, CA, studio will be ending for the year with the Nov. 2 class in Sculptural Papermaking. Watch for my next email in early 2025 with a Schedule of Spring 2025 classes in hand papermaking.
“Fire and Water” is a new series of mixed-media handmade paper artworks that I have created in 2024 using dyed Japanese kozo fibers and abaca pulp with collaged threads, burning and hole making. This work focuses on wildfires, water and climate change, and is inspired in part by my experience of wildfires in Santa Rosa, CA, in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Also, I am living in an area where water is a continuing concern with long periods of extreme drought and water rationing as well as periodic flash flooding and rising oceans. All of these are exacerbated by climate change.
I use controlled burning of my handmade paper and natural fiber constructions to make unique patterns, holes and colors in the handmade paper I create using Japanese techniques and my own papermaking innovations. The works hang suspended from the ceiling and the transparent paper and holes look great with light coming through. This work emphasizes that fire can be beneficial, beautiful, purifying and warming as well as destructive and terrifying. I feel that seeking harmony with nature should be our goal to help mitigate climate change effects and work together for a better environment.
The series continues with more images coming soon.
Jane Ingram Allen, Fire and Water 1, 2024, artist-made kozo and abaca fiber paper, dye, fabric bits, thread, burning, 22 x 17 inches, photo by Timothy S. AllenJane Ingram Allen, Fire and Water 1, 2024, detail, photo by Timothy S. AllenJane Ingram Allen, Fire and Water 2 – Forest Fires, 2024, handmade kozo and abaca fiber paper, dye, thread, burning, 42 x 36 inches, photo by Timothy S. AllenJane Ingram Allen, “Fire and Water 2 – Forest Fires”, detail.Jane Ingram Allen, “Fire and Water 3 – Burned Trees”, 2024, artist-made kozo and abaca fiber handmade paper, dye, acrylic paint, thread, burning, 34 x 24 inches, photo by Timothy S. Allen.Jane Ingram Allen, “Fire and Water 3 – Burned Trees”, 2024, detail.Jane Ingram Allen, “Fire and Water 4 – Yellow Hot”, 2024, artist-made kozo and abaca fiber handmade paper, dye, acrylic paint, thread, burning, 18 x 22 inches, photo by Timothy S. Allen.Jane Ingram Allen, “Fire and Water 4 – Yellow Hot”, 2024, detail.
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: Saturday, Sept. 7, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (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.
“In Deep Water” by Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, kozo fiber handmade paper, thread, printmaking, dye, installed here at The Tides Gallery, San Francisco, CA
EXTREME Papermaking
Date: Saturday, Sept. 28, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (materials and equipment provided)
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This class will stretch your imagination about the possibilities for handmade paper art. It will cover many unique and some non-traditional EXTREME papermaking techniques including making really BIG paper, shaped handmade paper, pouring pulp, modeling pulp, burning handmade paper, tearing it and making holes and other techniques Jane has discovered and learned in places around the world. Enrich your handmade paper art and expand its possibilities. This class is for beginners and experienced papermakers.
Participants Making Really BIG Paper in EXTREME Papermaking Class in 2023
MORE EXTREME Papermaking
Date: Sunday, Sept. 29, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (Materials and equipment provided)
This class is open to those who have taken my EXTREME Papermaking class in 2023 and 2024 and want to do more! This class will cover different MORE EXTREME papermaking techniques including making paper yarn and tubes, making sounds with paper, kinetic paper, living paper art installations and other more extreme techniques to enrich and enliven your handmade paper art. If you can think it, we will do it!
Jane Ingram Alle, “Cosmos”, handmade paper from plants of Costa Rica, holes, thread, dye, gel,
Going Wild with Color in Hand Papermaking
Date: Saturday, Oct. 12, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Feet: $175 (includes materials and use of equipment)
This class will focus on 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 using 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.
Jane Ingram Allen, detail of “Grid Play 2024”, handmade paper, dye pulp, thread
Sculptural Papermaking – Creating 3-Dimensional handmade paper art
Date: Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (materials and equipment provided)
This class will expand your papermaking into three dimensions by introducing various ways to make handmade paper sculptural forms, including use of molds, drying on 3-D surfaces, construction techniques, modeling with pulp and using armatures. Participants will create new sculptural works and come away with many ideas for handmade paper sculpture and installation art. This workshop is for beginning and experienced papermakers and will expand your skills into the 3rd dimension and beyond.
Jane Ingram Allen, “Daily Scrolls”, handmade paper, recycled metal grid, dye, drawing, printing, painting, rolled handmade paper scrolls for first 81 days of the pandemic quarantine
Private Classes – 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.
Jane Ingram Allen – Studio #106, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Please visit my studio during the Art at the Source Open Studios the first two weekends in June. This year I was selected to receive a scholarship for Art at the Source, and I will be doing hand papermaking demonstrations and exhibiting some of my works for sale at my home studio, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409. I will also have one selected work available for a free raffle to all who attend. I look forward to seeing you.
2024 Open Studio Weekends, Jane Ingram Allen Studio #106, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409
June 1-2 and June 8-9, Saturday and Sunday,10 am to 5 pm Papermaking demonstrations: 1 – 4 pm each day
Jane Ingram Allen Art Projects 