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April 2026 Updates from Jane Ingram Allen

21 Tuesday Apr 2026

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See it before May 3, 2026:  My work “Legal Pad with Grocery List” is on display at the Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA, in the exhibition Making Moves: a Collection of Feminisms until May 3.  See the Crocker Museum’s Exhibitions website for more information: https://www.crockerart.org/art/exhibitions/making-moves-a-collection-of-feminisms?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ENews4.8.26(DEFEM)&utm_content=version_A

My piece (c 1975) is now in the collection of the Crocker Art Museum, and it is a loom woven over-sized legal pad with my family’s typical grocery list written on it with hand embroidery.  It is an honor to have my work in the Crocker’s collection and to have this piece shown with so many excellent feminist artists, including Frida Kahlo!

Solo Exhibition Opens May 16, 2026, in Benicia, CA:  The Work of Earth and Hand:  Jane Ingram Allen

Opening Reception and Artist Talk on Saturday, May 16, 5-7 pm, at NY2CA Gallery, 617 First Street, Benicia, CA

For more information about this show of handmade paper and mixed media works spanning some 50 years of my career, see the gallery website at: https://ny2cagallery.com/event/the-work-of-earth-and-hand-jane-ingram-allen/  

NY2CA Gallery Director Vickie Marchand has visited my Santa Rosa studio two times to select works for this show and to plan activities during the exhibition which will close on June 21. 

I will also be in Benica on Saturday, June 6, at the gallery to do a public art installation I am calling “Building Community – Benicia Houses” that will involve some hands-on public participation papermaking to create over 100 small houses and arrange them for a public art installation in the gallery’s back garden space.  Volunteers who have taken my papermaking workshops will be helping participants create their own “house” for the installation that will remain on view until June 21.  The papermaking activity will run from 11 – 4 on June 6.  There will also be many other activities that day in downtown Benicia with lots of art to see!

One of more than 35 works in my Benicia Exhibition at NY2CA Gallery
California Blooming – Poppies, 2025, 25 x 75 inches, Mixed Media handmade paper pulp painting with threads and gel.

34 of my “Made in Taiwan” artworks created during my two years (2003-04 and 2004-05) as a Fulbright Scholar Artist in Taiwan are now in the collection of the Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan.  

All of these works now in the Tainan Art Museum’s collection were created using materials collected at 13 different places all around Taiwan, where I used over 135 different plants of Taiwan to make the handmade paper for these mixed-media artworks.   I am planning an exhibition of some of these handmade paper “sitemaps” with the Tainan Art Museum curators for Fall 2026.  Check back for more details on this exhibition and some public workshops and other activities on a possible 2-week trip to Taiwan at the end of October and first of November, 2026.  

One of the 34 works in the collection of Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
Chiayi Site Map, 2005, 35 x 78 inches, mixed media, handmade paper from plants of Chiayi County, Taiwan, thread, acrylic paint and gel, other items collected in Chiayi, part of my “Made In Taiwan” Fulbright Scholar research grant project.

New Collaboration Feeling the Heat with printmaking artist Jami Taback is in progress. Jami and I are calling this new multi-part eco-art installation “Feeling the Heat”, and it is focused on environmental issues related to fire, global warming and climate change, using handmade paper, thread, dye, controlled burning and printmaking.  The project is an extension of our “In Deep Water” collaborative project begun in 2020 and exhibited at 5 non-profit venues in Northern California, NJ and NY as well as one foundation gallery in Taiwan.  Our In Deep Water Project was supported by grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Puffin Foundation and Live Forever Foundation, Taiwan.  This time the collaboration is via Zoom and shipping parts back and forth between PA where Jami now lives and Santa Rosa, CA, where I continue to be based.  We expect to premier this new installation either in Northern CA or in the Northeastern US in late 2026 or early 2027.  We are actively seeking venues to exhibit this work and also applying for grants and other support.  This “Feeling the Heat” installation will feature multiple swirling panels with fire imagery and hand papermaking and printmaking joined by threads and suspended from the ceiling in site-specific installations by the artists.  Public programs and hands-on workshops will be offered at each venue.  Keep watching for more news and photos of this in-progress large-scale eco-art collaborative installation.

Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, Feeling the Heat (installation in progress), 2026, dimensions variable, multiple panels, handmade abaca and kozo fiber paper, threads, ink, dyes, pigments, controlled burning and collage with acrylic gel.

Spring 2026 PaperMaking Art Classes with Jane Ingram Allen in Santa Rosa, California

27 Tuesday Jan 2026

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Spring 2026 Papermaking Art Classes with Jane Ingram Allen

Location of Classes: Jane Ingram Allen’s home & 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.  If you choose to use PayPal, be sure to send the whole amount and pay for the service fee.  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

Japanese Hand Papermaking – Celebrating Kozo 

Date:  Saturday, March 21, 10 am to 4 pm

Class Fee:  $200 (includes all materials and equipment)

Learn how to make paper with Japanese Kozo (paper mulberry bark) and other plant fibers using Japanese techniques that Jane learned in Mino City, Japan, during a 4-month artist-in-residency award. The Japanese methods can create unique handmade paper that is super thin and translucent but still very strong and used for everything from clothing to sculpture.  This class will use some of the Kozo fiber Jane orders from Mino City, where she was an artist-in-residence 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 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 ways to use the long fibers of the paper mulberry and other similar plants.  Information about obtaining 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. 

Jane Ingram Allen, Turning Over a New Leaf, 1999-2000, 5 x 12 feet, 2000 handmade Kozo fiber leaves, created at 4 month- artist-in-residency at Mino Paper Art Village Project, Mino City, Japan

EXTREME Papermaking

Date:  Saturday, April 18, 10 am to 4 pm

Class Fee:  $200 (includes all materials and equipment)

.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.  

Jane Ingram Allen, Site Botanical – Taiwan Banana, 2006, 6 feet x 2 feet, handmade paper from Taiwan banana leaves, real banana leaves, acrylic paint, gel, thread, two-sided suspended work, created during artist-in-residency project at Taiwan National Museum of Natural Sciences Botanical Garden, Taichung, Taiwan.

Going Wild with Color in Hand Papermaking

Date:  Saturday, May 30, 10 am to 4 pm 

Class Fee:  $200 (includes all materials and equipment) 

This class will focus on using color in 2 and 3-dimensional hand papermaking art.  Learn to use non-toxic eco-friendly 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 creative 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. 

Jane Ingram Allen, California Blooming – Poppies, 2025, Pulp Painting on handmade abaca and kozo fiber paper, acrylic gel, threads, dye, 2 feet x 6 feet

Sculptural Papermaking – Creating 3-Dimensional Handmade Paper Art

Date:  Saturday, June 27, 10 am to 4 pm

Class Fee:  $200 (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.  Participants will 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

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. 

Jane Ingram Allen, Burned Map of Middle East, 2006, 24 x 36 inches, handmade abaca fiber paper, acrylic paint and gel, controlled burning using fire retardant, mounted on clear plexiglass

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 Artist 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. Her work is in many public collections including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan; W. Des Moines City Hall, W. Des Moines, Iowa, ASCAP, New York, NY; Ege University Museum of Paper and Book Arts, Izmir, Turkey; and Fulbright Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan.  Since 2012 Jane has been based in Santa Rosa, CA, and continues her work in the US and internationally.

Contact Info:  

Jane Ingram Allen, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa CA 95409

Email: info@janeingramallen.com

Phone or Text:  857-234-2432

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Jane Ingram Allen’s SCG Artist in Residency at Blue Line Arts Center, Roseville, CA, Sept. 6 – 26, 2025

11 Thursday Sep 2025

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I am happy to be selected as the National Artist this year for the Susan Cooley-Gilliom (SCG) Artist in Residence and Teaching Program at Blue Line Arts Center in Roseville, California. I’ve been in Roseville almost a week now putting up an exhibition of my recent work with handmade paper and getting started with Open Studio times from 12-2 pm on Thursdays and Fridays and preparing for a hands-on community workshop this weekend to make handmade paper from local plant waste materials such as leaves and bark.

Here are some photos of my exhibition in the Education Gallery at Blue Line Arts Center in downtown Roseville (https://www.bluelinearts.org/scg-national-2025). The exhibition is open to the public Tues. through Saturday, 11 – 5, now through Sept. 26, 2025. The photos were taken by my husband Timothy S. Allen; Tim is with me in Roseville for this project. My exhibition contains 16 handmade paper and mixed media installation artworks I created in 2024 and 2025 that focus on fire and water and use plant fibers and natural threads with holes and controlled burning.

The public is invited to come in to see more of the process during the Open Studio times on Thursdays and Fridays 12 Noon to 2 PM, and attend the artist’s talk on Sept. 20, 4-5 pm, with reception following 5-7 pm at Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Street, Roseville, CA.

I will be teaching a workshop “Plant to Paper” using local plant materials on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13 and 14, 10am to 4pm at the Blue Line Arts Center. I’ve been busy locating possible plants to use and gathering the materials with the help of my brother and sister-in-law, John and Tina Ingram, who live in nearby Sacramento, CA. Here are some photos taken by my husband Tim showing some of the plants we will be using for hand papermaking in Roseville. The Blue Line Arts Center has an excellent studio space for the artist in residence and also an alley just outside the studio space that works great for cooking and beating the plant materials to a pulp to make paper. Participants in this 2-day workshop will learn the whole process starting from the gathered plant waste materials and ending up with unique place and nature connected handmade paper artworks.

Here are some photos taken by my husband Tim of some of the plants we will be using for hand papermaking in Roseville. Check out more of the photography of Timothy S. Allen at (https://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com)

More photos will be posted soon from the Plants to Paper workshop and also of the new artworks I will be making during my 3-week residency in Roseville, CA at Blue Line Arts Center.

Fall 2025 Paper Making Classes in Santa Rosa, CA with Jane Ingram Allen

08 Friday Aug 2025

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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 or bank transfer.  Class size is limited to 5 people, and registration will be confirmed after receipt of the class fee.  For more information call, text or email.

Schedule of Classes

Celebrating Kozo and Japanese Papermaking 

Dates:  Saturday, October 18, 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 kozofibers 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

Date:  Saturday, November 15, 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.  

Sculptural Papermaking – Creating 3-Dimensional handmade paper art

Date:  Saturday, December 6, 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

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, New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), National Endowment for the Arts (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 Women Eco Artists Dialogue (WEAD), Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art (NCWCA), International Association of Paper Making Artists (IAPMA) and other art organizations.  She also teaches occasionally at other organizations around the world, including 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.

Burning handmade paper

Contact Info:  

Jane Ingram Allen

5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa CA 95409

Email: info@janeingramallen.com

Phone or Text:  857-234-2432

https://janeingramallen.wordpress.com;  https://www.instagram.com/janeingramallen/

OPENING SOON: “In Deep Water – Confluence” at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, New York

09 Monday Jun 2025

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Collaborating Artists Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback will present the 6th exhibition of their “In Deep Water” project at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY, June 28 – August 3, 2025.

Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback began this work together in 2020 to express their concern about the growing environmental crisis relating to climate change and water, the most essential element for life. “In Deep Water” has been presented at 3 different venues in Northern California and one in New Jersey and also in Taiwan, with new versions and more panels added at each place to make it site specific  The “In Deep Water – Confluence” art installation will consist of 27 panels of handmade paper and printmaking with controlled burning that are joined by threads and suspended in space to surround the viewer in a blue watery world where rivers come together, symbolically representing the hope that the world can all come together to preserve the environment and deal with climate change.  The presentation in Narrowsburg, NY, will be designed for the DVAA gallery located in the downtown area along the banks of the Delaware River, and the exhibition is happening at the same time as the community’s annual Riverfest celebration of the Delaware River.

The exhibition in Narrowsburg, NY, will open with a Reception and Artists Talk on Saturday, June 28, 4- 6 pm. For more information:   https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/exhibition/jane-ingram-allen-jami-taback-in-deep-water/?back=ago

Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, “In Deep Water – Rising”, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, 2022
Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, “In Deep Water – We’re in This Together – Taiwan”, 2023-24
Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback installing “In Deep Water” at Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA, in January 2022.

All photos are by Timothy S. Allen (https://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com)

New Kozo/Japanese Papermaking Class Added

08 Saturday Feb 2025

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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).

Jane’s Cell Phone:  857-234-2432 

Website:  https://janeingramallen.wordpress.com

Email:  info@janeingramallen.com

Description of the class:

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

Spring 2025 Papermaking Art Classes in Santa Rosa, CA

28 Tuesday Jan 2025

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Spring 2025 Papermaking Art Classes

with Jane Ingram Allen

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.

Contact Info:  

Jane Ingram Allen

5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa CA 95409

Email: info@janeingramallen.com

Phone or Text:  857-234-2432 https://janeingramallen.wordpress.com

November 2024 News from Jane Ingram Allen

25 Monday Nov 2024

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Jane Ingram Allen, “Poppies in the Sky”, 2019

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. 

For more information about the Pepperwood Preserve art program and this exhibition: https://www.pepperwoodpreserve.org/project/the-majesty-of-trees/

“Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve”, 2022-23

“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. 

All photos are by Timothy S. Allen, https://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com

Spring 2019 Papermaking Art Classes in Santa Rosa, CA

18 Monday Feb 2019

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Announcing Spring 2019 Papermaking Art Classes
with Jane Ingram Allen
at Studio Santa Rosa, 3840 Finley Ave., Santa Rosa, CA, Building 32, Studio 107
Contact Jane by phone 857-234-2432 or email info@janeingramallen.com

Learn in an environment surrounded by original artworks that were created using the techniques being taught in the workshops.

Class size is limited to 4 people, and all materials and equipment are provided.

 

 

About the Instructor:
• Award winning international artist and hand papermaking expert with 40 years of experience.
• Papermaking teacher and resident artist in Japan, Taiwan, China, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey, Tanzania, France, England, Brazil, and the US. Fulbright Scholar Award artist in Taiwan and Fulbright Specialist artist in Turkey.
• Trained in traditional Japanese papermaking in Japan, and taught papermaking while living in Taiwan and Asia for 8 plus years.
• Former Art professor at SUNY, Morrisville, NY, and College of St. Rose, Albany, NY. Former textile Arts instructor at Foothill College and Canada College in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Taught papermaking workshops in US at Women’s Studio Workshop, Peter’s Valley School of Crafts, Morgan Conservancy, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Queens Botanical Garden, Brookfield Craft Center, Mass Audubon and others.
• For more information visit Jane’s Blog at https://janeingramallen.wordpress.com and her website at http://www.janeingramallen.com

Classes in Spring 2019

Introduction to Hand Papermaking: Explore Western and Asian techniques of hand papermaking including sheet forming, pressing and drying as well as techniques of laminating, embedding and watermarking. Learn how papermaking can be used for a variety of art creations (2-D and 3-D) and make an array of handmade papers using cotton, abaca, kozo and local plant fibers.
• Saturday, March 30, 10AM to 4PM.
• Fee: $125 – Materials and equipment provided

Color and Hand Papermaking: Create your own handmade paper with colored pulps using Western and Japanese techniques. Learn to use dyes and pigments to color pulp as well as natural dyes and the natural color of different plant fiber pulps. Your handmade paper can be used for painting or drawing with watercolors, inks, dry media, acrylics, oil, encaustic and other techniques, as well as creating the art with the colored pulp. We will create paper sheets up to 11” x 17” using a variety of fibers that have unique textures and colors. We will learn pulp painting and other techniques for creating imagery with paper pulp as well as applying mixed media painting techniques on the handmade paper.
Saturday, April 27, 10AM to 4PM.
• Fee: $125 – Materials and equipment provided

Plants to Paper: Learn how to make handmade paper from local plant waste materials such as leaves and bark of common local plants. This class will cover how to make paper from “scratch” using materials found locally and easily available equipment and supplies and sustainable methods. We will identify, gather, cook, beat and form handmade paper from a variety of local plants to create unique place-connected handmade papers with a variety of natural colors and textures. We will create sample books and compile records and recipes for making paper from local plants.
• Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5, 10 AM to 4 PM each day
• Fee: $200, materials and equipment provided

Getting Grants and Residencies: Learn to find and make wining applications for a grant or residency. In this open session for all artists, with individual coaching and Q & A, Jane will share her experiences getting grants for residencies, public art projects and research and art making opportunities internationally. Jane has received grants from state, local and national foundations, arts councils, museums and public art commissions as well as three Fulbright Awards and grants to do artist-in-residencies in Japan, Nepal, Indonesia, Tanzania, China, Taiwan, Turkey and other countries as well as in the USA. Participants in this workshop, should bring examples/images of their artwork, a resume and artist statement and printed out information about any opportunities you are thinking about applying for. Bringing your own laptop would also be good for this workshop.
• Saturday May 11, 10AM to 4PM
• Fee $100

Sculptural Papermaking: Learn to make handmade paper sculptures and installation art using a variety of plant fibers and combining hand papermaking with various sculpture techniques, such as casting, embossing, molding, constructing, building over armatures and modeling. We will create handmade paper sculptures and mixed media works using pulps made from abaca, kozo (mulberry bark), cotton, and other locally collected fiber plants. Using three-dimensional techniques and natural colors and textures from the various plant fibers, expand your horizons and discover new possibilities in sculpture.
• Saturday and Sunday, May 18 and 19, 10AM to 4PM.
• Fee $200 – Materials and equipment provided

Papermaking Studio Rental: Jane’s Papermaking Studio is available for your personal use (weekdays or weekends) at a fee of $15/hour (minimum of 4 hours). To rent the studio you are required to take at least one workshop with Jane and attend a special session by phone or email about using the studio and materials. Jane will prepare materials and be there for consulting. You will have use of the studio space and Jane’s equipment. Materials cost will depend on what pulp and other materials from Jane are used and will be discussed at the studio session.

To Register for a class: contact Jane at info@janeingramallen.com or phone 857-234-2432.  Look for more classes to be announced here in Summer and Fall.