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.