New Class Added – My Kozo/Japanese Papermaking Class on March 22, 2025, is already full, so I am adding another class the following Saturday, March 29, for more people who are interested in learning Japanese hand papermaking techniques and using Kozo fibers. The wonderful exhibition at the Sonoma Valley Museum, “Book Becoming Art” has generated lots of interest in Japanese papermaking!
Celebrating Kozo – Exploring Japanese Papermaking
Dates: Saturday, March 29, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (includes materials and equipment)
Instructor: Jane Ingram Allen
Location: Jane’s home and studio, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409 (in the Rincon Valley area on Santa Rosa’s Northeast side).
Learn to make paper with Japanese Kozo (paper mulberry bark) and other plant fibers in the Japanese way to create unique handmade paper that can be super thin but still very strong and used for everything from clothing to sculpture. This class will use some of the Kozo fiber I order from Mino City, Japan, where I was an artist in residence for 3 months in 1999 and returned in 2009. Also, other locally-available Mulberry tree fibers and various plant fibers will be used in the Japanese way to create unique handmade paper. We will use an authentic sugeta (wooden frame and bamboo woven screen) as well as Western molds & deckles (wooden frames and nylon screening) and formation aid from powdered polyethylene oxide and from okra juice. The class will cover preparing fiber, preparing the vat, adding formation aid, various ways of sheet forming and drying handmade papers as well as creative and unique ways to use the long fibers of the paper mulberry and other plants. Information about getting kozo fibers and a Japanese-style sugeta as well as growing and gathering your own fibers for Japanese papermaking will be shared in this workshop. No experience required, but some papermaking experience will be helpful.
To register for the class: Send check or money order for the class fee by mail to Jane Ingram Allen, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, or pay the fee with a credit card using PayPal (www.paypal.com) and send money to info@janeingramallen.com Class size is limited to five people! Jane will contact you by email as soon as your money is received, and she will be in touch to send complete instructions for the class and handouts as we get closer to the date.
Jane Ingram Allen, Open Sky, made in Costa Rica with mulberry bark handmade paper, 2023
My artwork “Poppies in the Sky” is featured in FEMINA 24, a group exhibition of 15 selected regional female artists at Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA, https://gallery.sofiegallery.com. The show opened on Nov. 7, 2024, and continues to Feb. 14, 2025. Sofie Contemporary Art is open on Calistoga’s main street from Thurs. – Sun. 11 am to 4 pm. I am also happy to report that one of my works in the exhibition, “Poppies in the Sky”, has been purchased by a collector from Virginia visiting in the Calistoga area.
Jane Ingram Allen, “Pepperwood Leaves, 2022 installation
“Pepperwood Leaves – a Re-installation” is now on exhibition at Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA. My art installation is part of the group exhibition titled “The Majesty of Trees” curated by Ben Benson, Pepperwood’s Cultural Resources Coordinator, and the show will extend into January 2025. My “Pepperwood Leaves” installation consists of multiple handmade paper Pepperwood tree (California Bay Laurel) leaves in shades of orange and purple with seeds for native grasses in the pulp. This work celebrates the Pepperwood Tree that the Preserve is named after. This work was originally created in Fall 2023 as part of my Creative Sonoma, Art Surround grant project. This re-installation of the work is just outside the gallery entrance on the 2nd floor of the Dwight Center for Environmental Science, located at 2130 Pepperwood Preserve Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. For an appointment to see the art gallery, email: iluevano@pepperwoodpreserve.org There will be educational programs and talks by the artists later in November and December.
“Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve” in WEAD online exhibition “Lands and Symbiotic Futures”. My outdoor installation “Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve” was selected for the online curated exhibition of WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) www.weadartists.org. The exhibition is available for online viewing and runs from Oct. 2, 2024 into 2025. My artwork “Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve” was also part of my Creative Sonoma Art Surround grant project at Pepperwood Preserve in Fall 2023, and was on view through January 2023 on the grounds in front of the Dwight Center at Pepperwood Preserve. The work was a transformative piece with seeds for native grasses in the paper pulp that sprouted over time to produce an 8’ x 10’ living Pepperwood tree shaped leaf in the landscape. This WEAD online exhibition titled “Lands and Symbiotic Futures” Is available for viewing at this link: https://www.weadartists.org/exhibitions
Zoom talks by some of the artists in the exhibition are scheduled for Nov. and Dec. 2024. Visit the WEAD website for more information about the exhibition and the Artist Talks: https://www.weadartists.org/artistspresentations
Jane ingram Allen, “Legal Pad with Grocery List”, 1975
My work is added to the collection of the Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA.
A curator from the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, CA, recently visited my studio in Santa Rosa, CA, to see my work in person. The curator was especially interested in my early feminist works in weaving and fiber arts from the 1970s when I lived in the South Bay and taught weaving and fiber arts at Foothill College and Canada College. I also showed the Crocker Curator my later and current works in handmade paper that still make use of many fiber materials and techniques. My work from 1975 “Legal Pad with Grocery List” is now part of the Crocker’s collection and will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Crocker about feminist works from the 1970s.
“Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, ”In Deep Water – Taiwan”, 2022-24
“In Deep Water” with collaborator Jami Taback will be exhibited in NY State in Summer 2025. Our “In Deep Water” installation artwork with handmade paper and printmaking will be exhibited at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY, June 28 2025 to August 3, 2025. I am hoping to travel to Hawley, PA, where Jami moved in March 2024, to visit her and help with the site installation in nearby Narrowsburg, NY, and also participate in some public programs for this exhibition. We were honored to be selected by the DVAA for this important slot in their 2025 exhibition schedule, since this is a time when many visitors come to the beautiful area along the Delaware River for the community’s annual Riverfest. For more information see the website at https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org
Jane Ingram Allen, Fire & Water 5, Burning Forest, 2024
My new Series “Fire and Water” continues. My handmade paper series of works in 2024 using handmade paper, stencils, dye, burning and hole making continues with another piece that features burned tree trunks and orange and smoky blue handmade paper. This work, #5 in the series, is about 4 feet square and hangs suspended in space to experience the holes and the translucent kozo fiber handmade paper.
Jane Ingram Allen, Handmade Paper Sculptures – Bird Watching in Japan, 1999
New Papermaking Art Classes to be announced in 2025. The Fall 2024 papermaking classes I taught at my Santa Rosa, CA, studio will be ending for the year with the Nov. 2 class in Sculptural Papermaking. Watch for my next email in early 2025 with a Schedule of Spring 2025 classes in hand papermaking.
Location of Classes: Jane Ingram Allen’s studio at 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, phone 857-234-2432, email: info@janeingramallen.com
Registration: To insure your place in a class, send a check made out to Jane Ingram Allen for the class fee by mail to the address above, or use PayPal to “send money” to info@janeingramallen.com with a credit card. Class size is limited to 5 people, and registration is confirmed after receipt of the class fee. If you need more information call or email me.
Schedule of Classes
Celebrating Kozo – Japanese Papermaking Techniques and Materials
Dates: Saturday, Sept. 7, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (materials and equipment provided)
Learn to make paper with Japanese Kozo (paper mulberry bark) and other plant fibers in the Japanese way to make unique handmade paper that can be super thin but still very strong and used for everything from clothing to sculpture. This class will use some of the recent Kozo fiber I ordered from Mino City, Japan, where I was an artist in residence for 3 months in 1999 and returned in 2009. We will use an authentic sugeta (wooden frame and bamboo woven screen) as well as Western molds & deckles (wooden frame and nylon screening) and formation aid from powdered polyethylene oxide and from okra juice. The class will cover preparing fiber, preparing the vat, adding formation aid, various ways of sheet forming and drying handmade papers as well as creative and unique ways to use the long fibers of the paper mulberry and other plants. Information about getting kozo fibers and a Japanese-style sugeta as well as growing your own fibers for Japanese papermaking will be shared in this workshop. No experience required, but some papermaking experience will be helpful.
“In Deep Water” by Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, kozo fiber handmade paper, thread, printmaking, dye, installed here at The Tides Gallery, San Francisco, CA
EXTREME Papermaking
Date: Saturday, Sept. 28, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (materials and equipment provided)
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This class will stretch your imagination about the possibilities for handmade paper art. It will cover many unique and some non-traditional EXTREME papermaking techniques including making really BIG paper, shaped handmade paper, pouring pulp, modeling pulp, burning handmade paper, tearing it and making holes and other techniques Jane has discovered and learned in places around the world. Enrich your handmade paper art and expand its possibilities. This class is for beginners and experienced papermakers.
Participants Making Really BIG Paper in EXTREME Papermaking Class in 2023
MORE EXTREME Papermaking
Date: Sunday, Sept. 29, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (Materials and equipment provided)
This class is open to those who have taken my EXTREME Papermaking class in 2023 and 2024 and want to do more! This class will cover different MORE EXTREME papermaking techniques including making paper yarn and tubes, making sounds with paper, kinetic paper, living paper art installations and other more extreme techniques to enrich and enliven your handmade paper art. If you can think it, we will do it!
Jane Ingram Alle, “Cosmos”, handmade paper from plants of Costa Rica, holes, thread, dye, gel,
Going Wild with Color in Hand Papermaking
Date: Saturday, Oct. 12, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Feet: $175 (includes materials and use of equipment)
This class will focus on using color in 2 and 3-dimensional hand papermaking art. Learn to use non-toxic fiber reactive dyes and natural dyes from local plants and purchased sources to color paper pulps such as abaca, kozo, cotton and local plant fibers. Learn about the advantages of using dye for paper pulp as well as using pigments. Also, use papermaking fibers from local plants that have their own beautiful natural colors. Go wild with color and explore using pulp painting, stenciling and other unique ways to introduce more color into your handmade paper art. No experience necessary, though experienced papermakers will also learn many new and original coloring methods and techniques. If you are a painter or like color in your work, this is the workshop for you.
Jane Ingram Allen, detail of “Grid Play 2024”, handmade paper, dye pulp, thread
Sculptural Papermaking – Creating 3-Dimensional handmade paper art
Date: Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $175 (materials and equipment provided)
This class will expand your papermaking into three dimensions by introducing various ways to make handmade paper sculptural forms, including use of molds, drying on 3-D surfaces, construction techniques, modeling with pulp and using armatures. Participants will create new sculptural works and come away with many ideas for handmade paper sculpture and installation art. This workshop is for beginning and experienced papermakers and will expand your skills into the 3rd dimension and beyond.
Jane Ingram Allen, “Daily Scrolls”, handmade paper, recycled metal grid, dye, drawing, printing, painting, rolled handmade paper scrolls for first 81 days of the pandemic quarantine
Private Classes – Design Your Own Private Papermaking Class
Dates: one day or two-day class to be arranged for private individual work with me, 10 am to 4 pm each day
Class Fee: $500 for one day or $800 for two consecutive days
Contact me to design and schedule your own unique class to work in my studio on your next project. This will be one-on-one learning in my studio using the equipment and supplies and pulps that you want to use from my stock, such as abaca, kozo, cotton blue jean pulp, specific local plant pulps that I can prepare or other materials you want to bring. I will offer advice, encouragement, give suggestions and teach you ways of doing what you want for specific projects and works that you have in mind. This will be more of a collaborative process and good for those who know what they want to achieve but don’t have a studio space or the equipment or the knowledge at this time to work entirely on their own. Two days are recommended, but one-day private workshops can also be arranged.
About the Instructor:
Jane Ingram Allen is a multi-media artist who does art projects around the world using hand papermaking with natural materials and collaborative processes to raise public awareness about environmental and social issues. Jane has received numerous awards for artist-in-residencies and community public art projects in the USA, the Philippines, Japan, Nepal, Brazil, China, Tanzania, Taiwan, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Switzerland, England and Costa Rica. She was a Fulbright Scholar artist-in-residence in Taiwan in 2004 and 2005 and a Fulbright Specialist in Turkey in 2015. She received Puffin Foundation Grants in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2022 to support her art installations in New York and MA. She has also received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation, NYFA, NEA, City of Sacramento, City of Santa Rosa, Sonoma Creates and other organizations around the world to support her work. Jane begins her artwork by making handmade paper from local plant waste and using materials and techniques that contribute to sustainable living and improve the environment. Jane is a former college art instructor and writes about art for SCULPTURE, Fiber Art Now and other art magazines as well as doing independent curating. She also teaches workshops in papermaking and other arts and has taught at Women’s Studio Workshop, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Peter’s Valley School of Craft, Brookfield Craft Center, and Morgan Paper Conservatory as well as at colleges and universities, museums and art centers in the US and other countries. Since 2012 she has been based in Santa Rosa, CA, and continues her work in the US and internationally.
I just returned from spending 6 weeks in Uvita, Costa Rica, for an artist in residency project at Le Diamonde Vert, home of French choreographer/dancer Marie M’Alaya Saurat. My husband Tim and I are happy to be home, but it does seem cold here in Northern California compared to the hot humid weather in Uvita. I am compiling my research on the papermaking and the local plants I used in Costa Rica and finishing up a few works I started there duringthe last week or so. We spent a couple of days in San Jose, Costa Rica, before our flight home, and it was great to have luxurious warm showers, a huge bedroom, nice restaurants and a beautiful pool on the premises.
During the residence in Uvita I made paper from 6 plants: Plantain Leaves (Musa x paradisia), Shell Ginger Leaves ( Alpine zerumbet), Corn Husks (Mais), Leaves of a Roadside Grass (Papsalum saccharoides), Red Hibiscus Bark (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) and Black Mulberry Bark (Morus nigra). I think those are the correct scientific names, but it was really difficult during this residency to find anyone who knew about the local plants. Marie had one book on Plants of Costa Rica that was very helpful.
Making the handmade paper sample books.
During this residency I also used some kozo, abaca and blue jean pulp that I had brought with me in the suitcase, and I enjoyed combining the local fibers and this added pulp that I could process by hand and with the kitchen blender I also brought with me. I used a modified Japanese papermaking technique with formation aid and multiple dips into the vat, forming thin but still strong handmade paper. I enjoyed using the blue color from the blue jean pulp as well as the natural colors of the various plant fibers. The light in Costa Rica is terrific, and I experimented with making holes in the paper and joining the pieces of handmade paper with natural threads so that they move easily for dance and also are easier to fold and transport after the residency.
I also put together some artworks with the handmade paper of Costa Rica that I could bring back with me to show in California and other places. Here are some photos showing how I shaped and joined single sheets to make long suspended panels to take advantage of light coming through the handmade paper. I will continue working on this “made in Costa Rica” series of works and also doing some writing and interviews about my residency in Costa Rica.
Detail of putting together handmade paper with threads.
During the last few weeks in Costa Rica, my husband Tim and I also took a few excursions. One trip was to a nature preserve near Uvita that is up in the mountains where we could see different birds and different plants early one morning, and we also took an early morning trip to the national park beach area to see shore birds and animals…they said there were crocodiles and howling monkeys but we did not see any! We also took a one day trip about 2 hours away to Boruca village to see natural dyeing and weaving of the indigenous Boruca tribe of Costa Rica. That was an exciting journey over winding dirt roads, and we had lunch with Marina, a Boruca woman who is the expert and teacher of weaving, spinning and natural dyeing. We saw demonstrations of the natural dyeing to get an incredible variety of really bright colors on the cotton yarn that Marina also showed how to hand spin. The plants used in natural dyeing were all growing around her house so I was able to collect some samples and maybe can find out more about these plants. The weaving that Marina demonstrated is using a back strap loom with thread heddles and produces thick cloth for bags and straps that is sold in the village and at local markets. We encountered the Boruca tribal crafts first at the Uvita Farmer’s Market where they were selling their carved and brightly painted wooden masks, gourd art and the natural dyed hand woven bags and straps.
During the last week Marie and I worked together more to create a collaborative dance performance piece that will make use of some of my handmade paper and thread constructions at a performance art festival in May in Havana, Cuba. Marie will take the handmade paper and thread constructions I made folded up in her suitcase for the festival in Cuba. Here are a few photos showing the collaboration and creative process of working with a dancer to create a collaborative work about water and rivers. It was the first time I actually made my art for dance, as other earlier collaborations with choreographers were from them seeing an installation I had already done and then creating dance to go with it. I will post more here about the “way of water” festival in Cuba and hopefully get some good video from Marie of the performance in Havana.
Marie and Jane looking at the handmade paper and thread constructions made for the dance performance.Marie and Jane looking at the handmade paper constructions and Marie making sounds on the paper. Marie improvising dance movements with the handmade paper constructions.Marie dancing with the handmade paper.
Overall, this residency was a great chance to see Costa Rica, use new plants for papermaking and experience a different culture as well as collaborate with a dancer/choreographer to make new work. It was a difficult residency in that Marie’s place is not set up for anything but dance. There is a large wooden dance porch area, but there is no space for a visual artist. Our bedroom was very small and upstairs with no access to water. I did all my work on one table on the narrow tile porch along the side of the house and the pulp cooking out in the yard. Marie’s house is far from parks or beaches or stores, and we used lots of taxis. I had to buy vats/large plastic tubs, buckets, and any thread I could find in local stores. I also had to find and buy a hot plate to cook fibers as Marie had no way to cook anything outdoors, and I could not use the small kitchen we used for making our food. Marie did have a large stainless steel cooking pot that I was able to use, and I brought everything else needed for papermaking in my suitcase. Marie’s yard had all of the plants I used, but more would have been nice to try if I had access to other areas. I have learned from experience being an artist in residence in many different countries to bring the essentials and find something that can work locally. The most difficult thing was finding an alkaline that would work for cooking the paper pulp. I finally found some lye in a big local supermarket and was able to use that to cut down on the cooking time and make the plant fibers soft and easy to beat by hand and with my kitchen blender. I was happy with the work I was able to do there, and Costa Rica is a beautiful country.
Beautiful tropical flower, I think a “Bird of Paradise” relative, seen on trip into the mountains outside Uvita.
Here are some of the upcoming art activities and exhibitions I am participating in during the coming months.
Exhibition: In Deep Water – Rising at Gallery Route One Project Space, Pt. Reyes Station, CA.http://www.galleryrouteone.org/exhibitions This exhibition Oct. 8 – Nov. 13, 2022, features the collaborative work of Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback about water and the climate crisis. The show closes on Nov. 13, and there will be and artists talk at 4pm that day.
Exhibition: “Bountiful Harvest”, at Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, IA.https://uicb.uiowa.edu This exhibition includes one of Jane’s Taiwan Site Maps, made with materials harvested in Taiwan. The group show Oct. 31 – Nov. 14, 2022, features artworks by selected members of International Association of Paper Making Artists (IAPMA) with a variety of artworks utilizing handmade paper and paper mulberry fibers and celebrating the concept of harvest.
Exhibition: “Off the Grid: Contemporary Fiber Art” at Yolo Arts Barn Gallery, Woodland, CA. This group exhibition includes two of Jane’s recent fiber art works, Daily Scrolls and No More Guns. The show runs from Nov. 10, 2022- to March 15, 2023. https://yoloarts.org/the-barn-gallery/
Exhibition: “In Deep Water – Turning the Tide” at The Tides Converge Gallery, San Francisco, CA. This exhibition features a new site specific installation of the collaborative work of Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback. The show opens with a reception 5-7 pm and artists talk at 5:30 pm. The gallery is located at the Presidio in SF (https://www.presidio.gov/places/tides-converge), and this exhibition is open during office hours 9 – 5 M-F until March 15, 2023.
Workshop: Papermaking from Scratch with Local Plants at Fibershed Learning Center, Pt. Reyes Station, CA. Jane will lead participants through the entire process of making paper from local plant materials, from gathering plants to finished paper, in this two day workshop on Nov. 19 – 20, 2022. Enroll here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/399100218497
Exhibition: Living Leaves for Pepperwood Preserve at Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA. Jane received a grant from Creative Sonoma ArtSurround Program (www.creativesonoma.org) to create a site-specific installation at Pepperwood Preserve, a large nature preserve in Santa Rosa dedicated to land and environmental preservation. Jane’s project includes a large outdoor installation “Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve” sited in front of the Dwight Center and an indoor installation “Falling Leaves” in the Dwight Center Gallery. The exhibition opens with a reception on Dec. 1, 2022 and runs through March 30, 2023 and is open to the public – http://www.pepperwoodpreserve.org
Residency: Diamante Verte, Uvita, Costa Rica. Jane has been awarded a 6-week artist-in-residency in Costa Rica from Jan. 4 – Feb. 13, 2023. During the residency Jane will use local plants of Costa Rica to create a new series of handmade paper artworks and collaborate with choreographer Marie M’Alaya Saurat ( https://cieartevivi.wixsite.com/mariemalaya) who directs this artist-in-residency program in Uveta, on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.
IN DEEP WATER – RISING at Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, through Nov. 13, 2022Jane preparing plants for papermaking in Taiwan, 2005, method to be used in Fibershed Learning Center Workshop Nov. 19-20, 2022.Jane making “Falling Leaves” for Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA, indoor and outdoor art installations Dec. 1, 2022 – March 30, 2023, at Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA.Taiwan Site Map – Cash Receipts”, 2004, Made in Taiwan Fulbright Project, work included in exhibition at Univ. of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, Iowa, Oct. 31- Nov. 14, 2022.“No More Guns” 2019, work included in “Off the Grid” exhibition at Yolo Arts, Woodland, CA, Nov. 13, 2022 – March 15, 2023.
Here is the link to the video made by Shelley Rugg for the Artists Talks at Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA: https://youtu.be/r8N_HNwqZuA First is the talk by Zea Morvitz and then the gallery walk-through with Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback.
This site-specific installation of In Deep Water – Rising, will be on view at this northern CA non-profit gallery in their project space through Nov. 13, 2022. The work by collaborating artists Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback utilizes hand papermaking and printmaking and focuses on water and climate change.
The photos below are by Timothy S. Allen at the opening reception on Oct. 8, 2022.
In Deep Water – Rising at Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CAJami and Jane at the Opening Reception for In Deep Water – Rising at Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CAJami and Jane talking about their collaborative work “In Deep Water – Rising” at Gallery Route One Opening Reception on Oct. 8, 2022.
Summer art activities include making handmade paper outdoors on my patio and assembling things indoors in my garage studio in Santa Rosa, CA, for upcoming exhibitions and public art projects.
I have been selected for Sonoma Creates Art Surround (https://www.creativesonoma.org/artsurround/) a new public art program that will partner artists with organizations in Santa Rosa and Sonoma County, CA, to create new site-specific artworks in public spaces working with the community. The project offers grants of $1000 to $10,000 to each of the selected artists to do one or more public art projects during the months of July to December of 2022. I should know in a few weeks what organizations I will be working with and where my installations will be sited. I hope to do more eco art installations with handmade paper and seeds in the pulp to change over time and work in harmony with nature. Here is a photos of my installation last year in Steckborn, Switzerland, titled “Living Quilt for Steckborn”.
Jane Ingram Allen, Living Quilt for Steckborn, installed in April 2021 and starting to transform, 8 feet x 10 feet x 1 foot, sponsored by Haus zur Glocke https://www.hauszurglocke.ch/home, Steckborn, Switzerland, handmade paper pulp, dye, seeds for wildflowers, soil, boards.Jane Ingram Allen, Living Quilt for Steckborn, blooming in September 2021, 8 feet x 10 feet x 1 foot, handmade paper, dye, seeds for wildflowers soil, boards, installed in April 2021, organized by Haus zur Glocke and city of Steckborn, Steckborn, Switzerland.
Check back here soon for updates about the art installations I will be doing in Santa Rosa, California, and Sonoma County, California during the coming months.
Summer Workshops with Jane Ingram Allen in Oregon
Jane’s “Papermaking Around the World” workshops this summer at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology are both full. One session will be August 7 and 8, and another session will be August 9 and 10 at Sitka Center in Otis, Oregon, on the beautiful central Oregon coast. For more information about the programs at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, see the website at http://www.sitkacenter.org
During these “Papermaking Around the World” workshops participants will be learning to make handmade paper using materials, equipment and techniques from countries around the world, such as Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Tanzania, Indonesia, Brazil, Nepal and Turkey…all countries where Jane has been an artist in residence. Jane will be teaching more papermaking art workshops in her Santa Rosa, CA, studio during the Fall of 2022. Email her to be put on the email list for workshops and classes in hand papermaking: info@janeingramallen
Continuing work on Collaborative Art Project “In Deep Water“
Jane is continuing to work with printmaker Jami Taback on their “In Deep Water” Project. The installation of “In Deep Water” at Rowan University, Discovery Hall, Glassboro, NJ, is coming down at the end of August 2022. Here is a photo of one part of the multiple panels being created for this installation. Jane and Jami will be creating more handmade paper and printmaking panels for this ongoing installation art project about climate change and water.
Detail of “In Deep Water” panel, one sheet 18″ x 12″, handmade paper, dye, printmaking, ink
The next exhibition of “In Deep Water” will be Oct. 8 – Nov. 10, 2022, at Gallery Route One Project Space, Point Reyes Station, CA. http://www.galleryrouteone.org
This work is from a series of “Guns into Flowers” artworks I started in 2018 after another mass shooting at a school in our country. Enough is Enough, and we need to demand that Congress pass some common sense gun regulations.
Jane Ingram Allen, “Seven Children”, 2018, 12″ x 17″ x 1″, mixed media on artist made handmade paper, thread, acrylic paint and gel, collage
EXTREME Hand Papermaking! – Saturday, April 23, 10AM to 4PM
Workshop Fee: $150 – Includes all materials and use of equipment. Send check to Jane Ingram Allen, 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409 or pay with a credit card using Paypal to info@janeingramallen.com
Due to so many wanting to take the March 19 workshop, I decided to offer it again in April! Join me in my Santa Rosa studio for some indoor and outdoor EXTREME and Experimental Papermaking using a variety of pulps such as kozo (paper mulberry bark), cotton blue jeans, sisal, flax and abaca as well as at least one plant fiber gathered locally.
We will do such things as make really big paper using pouring methods, make really thin but strong paper using Japanese techniques, make thick sculptural cast paper, burn handmade paper using a flame retardant, make holes, tear and shred paper, make paper that moves and produces sounds and blend some strange and exotic pulps for special effects. Come prepared for some extreme experimental papermaking to produce unique handmade paper for artwork of all kinds. This workshop is suited for beginning and experienced papermakers and promises to challenge you to stretch and expand your ideas about papermaking.
Class size is limited to 4 people, and all must be vaccinated. All Covid protocols in effect will be followed.
Controlled Burning of Handmade PaperMaking BIG paper in Tanzania, at WHAT residency, Arusha
Jane Ingram Allen Art Projects 