Jane Ingram Allen, a Fulbright Scholar artist in Taiwan in 2003-04 and 2005-05, announces that the Tainan Art Museum in Tainan, Taiwan, now has 34 of her handmade paper mixed media artworks in their permanent collection. The works were created by Allen during her two years on the Fulbright grant working in 14 different communities all over Taiwan. The Tainan Art Museum will keep the works in their archival storage and have them available for research and exhibitions. Allen hopes that the Tainan Art Museum will have an exhibition of her “Made in Taiwan” works in 2027.
These works are part of an ongoing series of map-based works that Allen calls “site maps.” The “site maps” are a record of her experience of a particular place and time and are made entirely from materials collected in that place. They are based on tourist maps, road maps, historical maps, geological maps and cultural resources that depict the particular characteristics of a place, as well as her personal experience of a place. Each “site map” is made up of multiple sheets of natural plant fiber handmade paper Allen made from local plants and joined with natural fiber string so that the constructions will fold up like maps. These are mixed-media works that use acrylic painting, drawing, collage and other techniques. They are two-sided and hang in space so that viewers can travel around them and look through them to get another view of that particular place.
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
This installation is a collaborative eco art installation art using hand papermaking and printmaking by artists Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, focused on the current climate crisis and water. A new configuration of the “In Deep Water” collaborative project will be shown at Gallery Route One Project Space, Point Reyes Station, CA, Nov. 19 – Dec. 26, 2022. The artists plan to continue this project and show it at other venues around the world in 2022-2023.
This unexpected opportunity to show “In Deep Water” at the Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA, was supported in part by an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and we are very happy to have been able to install our work in this beautiful light-filled gallery for longer than the two weeks originally planned, but now another exhibition is coming, and we will take this work down on Feb. 24. Please let me know if you want photos or more information about this work. Public viewing in the Gallery is okay with masks, social distancing and groups of no more than 4 people during regular hours, M-F, 10am to 4 pm. Just let me know too if you would like to meet me there before the show closes on Feb. 23. Thanks to Jill Valavanis, Curator and Fine Arts Manager at Sonoma Community Center and to Timothy S. Allen for the photographs of the installation. See more of Tim’s photos at https://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com
Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, viewing their installation of “In Deep Water” at Sonoma Community Center Gallery, Jan. 15 – Feb. 23, 2022detail of “In Deep Water” installation by Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback at Sonoma Community Center Gallery, Jan. 15 – Feb. 23, 2022
My outdoor public art installation in Steckborn, Switzerland, that was installed on April 14, 2021, with Haus zur Glocke Art Center in the town of Steckborn on the shores of Lake Constance, is beginning to bloom! The handmade paper quilt had seeds for wildflowers in the pulp in the same colors and patterns. Tiny white flowers (maybe Baby’s Breath) are showing up now, and there is a lot of lush green foliage for other wildflowers. The different colors of the other wildflowers in this “living quilt” should start to bloom soon. I am happy to post these photos sent by Haus zur Glocke Director and Curator Judit Villliger on June 7, 2021.
I plan to make a slide show that will show the process of the “living quilt” in more detail after all the flowers bloom, maybe by mid summer. I will post the complete slide show on YouTube with a link from this Blog. Also, I will continue posting photos sent by Judit in coming weeks. A very big thank you to Judit and the staff at Haus zur Glocke for taking such good care of the Living Quilt and sending all of this great documentation.
Hope everyone is having a good summer. Now it is very hot and dry here in Northern California, and it looks like my “living quilt” installations in California are maybe finished for this year. They should come back again with blooms and new growth next Spring after our Winter rains.
“Bed” made and filled with dirt on April 12, 2021 for “Living Quilt for Steckborn”Installation of Living Quilt for Steckborn, on April 14, 2021Living Quilt for Steckborn on April 19, 2021Plants starting to grow and paper pulp disappearing as mulch on May 14, 2021Plants growing on May 23, 2021, and all the paper pulp has dissolved into the earth.Tiny white flowers starting to appear on June 7, 2021. Hope to see other blooms soon!
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