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Jane Ingram Allen – Mid Summer 2026 Updates – Current Exhibitions in San Francisco Bay Area

20 Monday Jul 2026

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Two New Exhibitions in the Bay Area include Jane Ingram Allen’s handmade paper artworks 

LOCAL ROOTS

July 17 – August 25, 2026

San Pablo Community Center, San Pablo, CA

Reception: Saturday, July 18, 2026, 2:00-4:00 PM 

Marguerite Elliot and Elizabeth Addison, ROOTS International Art Project Co-founders present this inaugural exhibition featuring a selection of Bay Area ROOTS Artist Members.  Two of Jane’s pieces from the “Fire and Water” Series are included in this exhibition.  “Fire and Water 1” and Fire and Water 4” were created in 2025-26 using her handmade kozo and abaca fiber paper, thread, dyes, controlled burning with fire retardant and holes made with water.  This series explores global warming and effects of wildfires and floods on the environment. 

Jane Ingram Allen, “Fire and Water 1”, 18 x 24 inches, handmade paper, dyes, thread, controlled burning and water marks, included in “Local Roots” exhibition at San Pablo Community Center Gallery, San Pablo, CA, Jul. 17 – Aug. 25, 2026
 

Artists in the Local Roots exhibition:Laura Abrams, Elizabeth Addison (ROOTS Co-founder), Jane Ingram Allen, Lucy Ames, Salma Arastu, Magué Calanche, Catherine Daley, Marguerite Elliot (ROOTS Co-founder), J. Ruth Gendler, Renée Owen, and Donna Day Westerman ROOTS International Art Project connects nature, women, and art—bringing together women-identified artists from diverse backgrounds. The collective focus of ROOTS rests on the intrinsic beauty of the natural world and the imperative need to safeguard our environment. 

Exhibit Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
San Pablo Community Center Art Exhibitions
2450 Road 20, San Pablo, CA 94806 www.sanpabloca.gov/artexhibits
 
GREEN
A Juried Exhibition of NCWCA (Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art) Members and Invited Artists

Reception: Saturday, July 25, 7-9 PM 

Jane’s multi-part installation “Different Worlds” is one of 37 works selected for inclusion in GREEN. This installation is suspended from the ceiling and uses Jane’s handmade kozo fiber paper, threads, horsehair, and acrylic paint and gel and was created after her residency in Japan and seeing maps of the world with Japan in the center and the USA very small and far off to the right.  The mostly blue and green circles show the globe turned around with different views in the center and focus on how important green forests and grasslands are for life on earth. 


Jane Ingram Allen, “Different Worlds”, 2000-2002, suspended installation of handmade kozo fiber paper, threads, horsehair, acrylic paint and gel, dimensions variable, 8 units each 12 – 36 inches diameter, included in “Green” exhibition at ARC Gallery, SF, July 17 – Aug. 22, 2026,


The exhibition explores the myriad expressions conjured by this single word GREEN—its colors, concepts, contradictions, and cultural weight. Jane was selected as an invited artist for this exhibition and is a member of NCWCA.

For details, click HERE. 

Juried by JD Beltran, Co-Founder, ART+WATER, San Francisco
Curated by Christine Cianci, NCWCA Exhibition Chair

Exhibition Dates: July 25 – August 22, 2026

Arc Gallery
1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 
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“Houses” Public Art Project by Jane Ingram Allen at Benicia Arts Festival installed on June 6, 2026 at NY2CA Gallery, Benicia, CA

13 Saturday Jun 2026

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These images were all taken by a volunteer at the Festival and show some public participants working on making their own “house” for the installation and adding to the community public art installation in the back garden area at NY2CA Gallery, 617 First Street, Benicia, CA. The over 100 “houses” each about 4 x 4 x 6 inches were created using wire mesh joined with copper wires and then dipped into different colors of paper pulp made from cotton, abaca and recycled plant fibers. The wet “houses” were then decorated with various natural and recycled materials such as flower petals, leaves, bits of fabric, paper, thread and other found materials. The “houses” were placed in the public art installation to dry and picked up later by participants. The installation will remain on view (at least some of the houses that have not been picked up yet) until the close of Jane Ingram Allen’s exhibition “The Work of Earth and Hand”, ending June 21, 2026. Contact NY2CA Gallery

https://ny2cagallery.com for more information. Jane Ingram Allen may be contacted at info@janeingramallen.com or through a comment on this site. Thanks to the 15 volunteers from around the area who came to help for this day long public art activity. All were experienced teachers and papermakers!

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Photos from Opening Reception on Saturday, May 16, 2026, “The Work of Earth and Hand – Jane Ingram Allen” at NY2CA Gallery, Benicia, CA

20 Wednesday May 2026

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The Opening Reception for Jane’s solo exhibition at NY2CA Gallery last Saturday was a wonderful evening of art, music, food and conversation at NY2CA Gallery, 617 First Street, Benicia, CA. Jane gave a Gallery Talk responding to questions about her works from gallery director Vickie Marchand. Many people attended and also enjoyed live music by local musicians and great food in the gallery’s back patio area. Jane’s work remains on view in the gallery till June 21, and the NY2CA Gallery is open Thursday through Sundays, Noon to 5 pm. Jane will be there in Benicia at the gallery again on June 6 for the Benicia Arts Festival day to conduct a public art activity at the gallery. The public is invited to make a “house” for a public art installation of over 100 handmade paper and wire mesh “houses” in the patio and garden area behind NY2CA Gallery.

See the gallery’s website at https://ny2cagallery.com for information about the exhibition and the Benicia Arts Festival.

Here are some photos of the gallery reception on Saturday, May 16, 2026, for Jane’s exhibition taken by Timothy S. Allen:

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“The Work of Earth and Hand – Jane Ingram Allen” Opens Saturday, May 16, 2026 at NY2CA Gallery, Benicia, CA

11 Monday May 2026

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Reception and Artist’s Talk, Saturday, May 16, 2026, 5 – 7 pm, NY2CA Gallery, 617 First Street, Benicia. Hope to see you there! 

Exhibition continues at NY2CA Gallery through June 21, 2026.

The Work of Earth and Hand: Jane Ingram Allen is a solo exhibition of handmade paper and mixed media artwork featuring selected 2-D and 3-D pieces from Jane’s long career as papermaking eco artist. For more information:https://ny2cagallery.com/event/the-work-of-earth-and-hand-jane-ingram-allen/ 

Site Botanical – Banana, 2006, Handmade paper from Taiwan banana leaves, collage with real banana leaves, acrylic paint and gel, digital photo of banana display in local market by Timothy S. Allen, 72 x 25 inches, two sided suspended work.

Jane will also be at NY2CA Gallery in Benicia for the Benicia Arts Festival on Saturday, June 6, 2026, to conduct a public participatory art activity to make over 100 handmade paper “houses” for an outdoor public art installation in the area behind the gallery. People are invited to come make their own handmade paper “house” during the public activity from 11 am – 4 pm on June 6.  

Jane’s 1998 installation of 200 handmade paper birds on a barn in New York State. There will be a
“Bird Watching in Benicia” installation of flying and standing “birds” in NY2CA Gallery’s storefront window area as part of Jane’s 2026 exhibition, “The Work of Earth and Hand”, May 14 – June 21, 2026.
“House” example for public art installation “Houses – Building Community” at NY2CA Gallery, Benicia, public participation activity on June 6, 11-4 pm
“Chiayi Houses”, 2005, mixed media installation of hundreds of handmade paper and wire mesh “houses” for public art installation for Chiayi Lantern Festival, sited on unused railway platform in downtown Chaiyi City, Taiwan, each “house 6″ x 4″ x 4”, handmade paper pulp, wire hardware cloth, wire, tea candles.

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

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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/

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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)

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March News Updates

15 Saturday Mar 2025

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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

June 28 – August 3, 2025

Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery, https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/exhibition/jane-ingram-allen-jami-taback-in-deep-water/?back=ago

37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY 12764

845-252-7576

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.  

Catalog available for order:  https://www.amazon.com/Lands-Symbiotic-Futures-Exhibition-Catalogs/dp/B0DPXZWDLJ

Online access to artists presentations: https://www.weadartists.org/exhibition-artist-presentations

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

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Opening Reception for Jane Ingram Allen’s Solo Exhibition in Santa Rosa, CA, Now Set for Saturday, April 11, 3:45 – 5 pm.

10 Monday Mar 2025

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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.
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Jane Ingram Allen’s Upcoming Solo Exhibition of Handmade Paper Artworks

11 Tuesday Feb 2025

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Jane Ingram Allen – Handmade Paper Art

March 3 – April 30, 2025

Spring Lake Village Art Gallery

5555 Montgomery Drive

Santa Rosa, CA 95409

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

One of many artworks in this exhibition!

Contact Info for Artist:  email info@janeingramallen.com or cell phone (857) 234-2432.

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