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Making Paper for the “Redwood Violin” and “Living Quilt for Santa Rosa” Blooming Again

11 Thursday Feb 2021

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This week I have been creating some special handmade paper as part of the Redwood Violin Project of violin-maker Andrew Carruthers.  Here is a link for more information about this project: https://theredwoodviolin.org/?fbclid=IwAR1TGwwFFMYxqF6Hb5x7JkDzoNVvSZBhlvFg2xszjUfKAAP52vefaz6SOWM

Andrew Carruthers (https://www.andrewcarruthers.com ) is creating a new violin that will celebrate Sonoma County and be made with local materials and the help of local artists and craftspeople.  I was asked to create some locally-sourced handmade paper for the label that will go inside the redwood violin, made of redwood and apple wood and other materials also sourced locally.  Andrew visited my studio in Santa Rosa, CA, yesterday, and I showed him my papermaking process using some mulberry bark paper pulp that I had prepared using the bark from trimmed branches of the fruitless mulberry tree in my front yard.  

Here’s a photo of my mulberry tree taken last summer and also a photo showing me stripping bark off the mulberry tree branches to cook, beat and prepare for hand papermaking.  The bark of mulberry trees is used all over the world for papermaking, and it produces a strong paper in an off-white color.  Local calligrapher Sherrie Lovier (https://www.inkmonkey.com/pages/bio.html) will do the lettering on my handmade paper for this special label.  It is great to be a part of this exciting project.  This unique violin made locally with local materials will be featured in concerts next month that will be uploaded for virtual listening.  You can also see videos of the process of creating this violin on the website: https://theredwoodiolin.org

Mulberry tree in my front yard in Santa Rosa, California
Peeling mulberry bark for papermaking

Also, this week it is great to see that my art installation “Living Quilt for Santa Rosa,” is beginning to bloom again for the third season at Rincon Ridge Park in Santa Rosa, CA.  This artwork was a public artwork supported by a grant from the City of Santa Rosa, and it was created with community participation as a response to the devastating October 2017 wildfires in Santa Rosa, CA.  “Living Quilt for Santa Rosa” was installed on Nov. 21, 2018, and it consisted of a raised bed with a handwoven headboard and footboard made of local branches and a handmade paper quilt that I made in the “flying geese” pattern with seeds for wildflowers in the pulp. Over time the handmade paper dissolved as mulch, and the wildflowers grew.  The “quilt” has bloomed with colorful wildflowers each spring, and promises to continue.  I recently repaired the footboard which had blown over during the last severe windstorms we had in northern California.  In a few more weeks we should also see California golden poppies and other wildflowers blooming at this site.  

“Living Quilt for Santa Rosa” on Jan 30, 2021, it’s third season

This photo shows the artwork as it appeared at the installation ceremony in November 2018.  Rincon Ridge Park is a small city park at Rincon Ridge Drive, in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa, CA.  Parks are open now for public viewing with masks and social distancing, so come out and enjoy the wildflowers.  

“Living Quilt for Santa Rosa” at installation ceremony with volunteers on Nov 21, 2018

Participating in Online Forum “What’s Next ? – Learning from Nature during Lockdown”

01 Thursday Oct 2020

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The international organization for greener cities (The Nature of Cities at http://www.thenatureofcities.com) invited me to contribute an essay and images of my work for the online forum “What’s Next? – Learning from Nature during Lockdown. Here is the link: https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2020/09/30/whats-next-learning-from-nature-during-lockdown/

This photo shows the huge mulberry tree in my front yard that I have used for my hand papermaking art during the pandemic.

Large Mulberry tree used for papermaking located in my front yard, Santa Rosa, California

I was invited for this international forum as a result of being selected for an invited artist-in-residency project at Cour Commune (www.courcommune.org). My residency at Cour Commune in Voulx, is now planned for Spring 2021. I will post more information here soon about my residency in France next year.

I also wanted to let everyone know that my home and studio in Santa Rosa, CA, are okay for now. We are located in an evacuation warning zone for the current wildfires in Sonoma County that affected the northeast section of Santa Rosa. My family and I are all fine, and we are watching the news updates carefully and remain packed and ready to evacuate again if needed. The smoke and ash from the nearby fires make the air outside unsafe and hazardous, and we are staying indoors for now.

I am able to work indoors on art for my upcoming projects in November. My exhibition at Haus zur Glocke in Steckborn, Switzerland (www.hauszurglocke.ch) opens on November 25, 2020. I am creating a “Lake Constance Site Map” now with internet resources and a few things that artist friends in Switzerland, Germany and Austria have mailed to me here in California. Lake Constance is a large lake in Europe that lies between Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Here is a photo of my Lake Constance handmade paper artwork in progress:

Lake Constance Site Map (in progress)

I will post more about the exhibition at Haus zur Glocke and my “Lake Constance Site Map” soon. The exhibition at Haus ur Glocke titled “Labor-Natur” will feature artworks by 3 artists who use nature as a laboratory to create their art. I will be showing a selection of my handmade paper site maps that are created from plant materials collected at each site. The Lake Constance Site Map is the first one I have made remotely since I was not able to go to Switzerland this year because of the pandemic.

I will also be working in my Santa Rosa studio during October and November to create another “living quilt” installation for the City of Sacramento’s artist in residency program. I will be making some live Zoom programs to show how the handmade paper quilt with seeds for wildflowers in the pulp is designed and made. I will go to Sacramento for one week in November to install my art project “Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth” at Sojourner Truth Community Garden in the Pocket-Greenhaven area of Sacramento, California.

This photo shows one square of the “Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth”.

one quilt square for my “Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth” installation in Sacramento, CA

I am using the North Star quilt pattern to refer to how quilts may have been used to show escaping slaves the direction north to freedom. Sojourner Truth was a former slave and famous as a leader in the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements. Keep watching this Blog to see more about my public art project in Sacramento.

Wishing everyone good health and good air to breathe!

Venturing Out – My Art Activities in September 2020 and Beyond

05 Saturday Sep 2020

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Here are some of the art projects I am currently participating in and some that are coming up soon, as we venture forth from the pandemic and quarantine.

Hello World is an international online art exhibition and art project by TransCultural Exchange in Boston, MA. This international art project was conceived and curated by artist/curator Mary Sherman. This pandemic art project was conceived as a way to bring together artists from various countries around the world to share what they are doing and continue international cultural exchange travel during this time of the pandemic. This art project will be online indefinitely, and here is a link to my contribution for this project (click on the far-right photo in the second line):
https://transculturalexchange.org/activities/hw/projects.htm




California Petals is a public art installation I created in August 2020 for a downtown storefront window in Santa Rosa, CA, and it can be viewed at any time from now to October 15, 2020. My installation is part of the Santa Rosa Downtown Chamber’s “Open and Out” program of cultural activities in the downtown area to encourage people to stroll around in the “pedestrians only” blocks of Fourth Street where many restaurants and stores are now open for outdoor dining and limited in-person shopping. My art installation is in a vacant storefront window at 620 Fourth Street, and it consists of many giant handmade paper flower petals with seeds for California wildflowers in the pulp. After the installation comes down on October 15, I plan to “plant” these petals in Santa Rosa so that they will change over time, sprout and bloom in colorful wildflowers. Here is a link to my Blog that has more information about “California Petals”: https://www.openandoutsr.com/art/art1-cbcmw

public art installation California Petals in downtown Santa Rosa, CA

Falling Open: On & Off the Page, Themes of Our Time is a group exhibition at Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA, that will be online as well as open for appointment viewing from September 18 to October 15, 2020. This is an invitational exhibition of artworks selected by curator Renee Owen that includes handmade artist books, installations and other works that relate to current environmental, social and pandemic issues. For this exhibition I will be showing a new work titled “Daily Scrolls” created during my first months of pandemic quarantine. This artwork has 91 handmade paper scrolls each with unique text and images that reflect my daily thoughts and experiences during this time. For more information about this exhibition: https://galleryrouteone.org/upcoming-events/

Daily Scrolls paper sculpture

Upcoming Art Projects and Activities

2020 Lucid Art Foundation Alumni Exhibition is an online exhibition of selected works by past artists in residence at the Lucid Art Foundation in Inverness, CA. I was an artist in residence at the Lucid Art Foundation in 2013, and for this exhibition one handmade paper sculpture I made during my 2013 residency and another handmade paper sculpture created this year will be included. The first piece made in 2013 is titled “Feather Duster” and makes use of branches from a local olive tree and handmade paper “feathers” I created from local plants. My other paper sculpture in this exhibition created in 2020 is titled “Paper Poppy” and depicts a giant California golden poppy like those blooming in my yard during the pandemic this Spring. Here is a link to this online exhibition: http://www.lucidart.org/exhibitions#current-exhibitions

Paper Poppy

Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth, Artist in Residency Project, Sacramento, CA is a public art project that will be completed in November 2020 at the Sojourner Truth Community Garden, Sacramento, CA. I was selected for the City of Sacramento’s Artist in Residency Program to create a site-specific art installation at a community garden in the Pocket-Greenhaven area of Sacramento. For this project I had planned public participation activities and workshops, but this has not been possible because of the pandemic. I will create the handmade paper “quilt” in a traditional “North Star” pattern with seeds in the pulp and bring it to Sacramento in November to create a “bed” for the “quilt” and install it at the Sojourner Truth Community Garden where it will transform over time. I will be making Zoom programs for online public participation. For information about the City of Sacramento Artist in Residency program: https://arts.cityofsacramento.org/Programs/Sacramento-AIR See my Blog for updates about this project and the upcoming Zoom programs: https://janeingramallen.wordpress.com

quilt block in “North Star” pattern for Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth in Sacramento, CA

Labor Natur, Haus zur Glocke, Steckborn, Switzerland is an exhibition curated by Judit Villager of works by three international artists who explore connections between art and science and use nature as a laboratory. This exhibition is open to the public in Switzerland from November 21, to December 12, 2020. For this exhibition I will be shipping some of my handmade paper “site maps” made in residencies around the world to Switzerland and also creating a new “site map” of the Lake Constance area encompassing Switzerland, Germany and Austria in my Santa Rosa, California, studio. I am doing online research gathering photos and information about plants that are common to northern California and the Steckborn area. Also, Judit Villager is sending me some materials by mail from Switzerland that I can put into the mixed media handmade paper site map. I hope to be able to travel to Switzerland in Spring 2021 for an artist in residency public art project at Haus zur Glocke. For more information about this exhibition in German only: https://www.hauszurglocke.ch/agenda/ausstellung//labor-natur1/
Or see this link in English at my Blog: https://janeingramallen.wordpress.com

Lake Constance Site Map in progress

Papermaking Art Workshops and art consulting sessions in my new Santa Rosa studio will be starting again in 2021. Contact me at info@janeingramallen.com to get the latest information about upcoming classes and individual consulting appointment.

papermaking in my Santa Rosa studio – creating “California Petals”

My “California Petals” Installation Now on View in Santa Rosa, CA

07 Friday Aug 2020

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Yesterday I installed my “California Petals” installation in a vacant storefront window at 620 Fourth Street in downtown Santa Rosa, CA. The installation is part of the Santa Rosa Chamber’s “Open and Out” program of public art & culture activities in the downtown area during this Covid 19 time.  See this link for more information about the “Open & Out” programs in Santa Rosa: https://www.openandoutsr.com/art/art1-cbcmw

My art installation is right next to Beer Baron Bar & Kitchen, and many of the restaurants are open for take out or outdoor service (masks and social distancing still required).  Several blocks of Fourth Street in the downtown area are blocked off for pedestrian only traffic, and more art is planned for the “Art Walk” in downtown Santa Rosa. My art installation remains on view through October 15, 2020. I am hoping to “plant” the petals somewhere on vacant land in a park or other public place after the installation comes down. The “California Petals” have seeds for California wildflowers in the handmade paper petals that will grow and bloom in the same colors. See the previous post for more photos of how the “petals” were made. Hope you get a chance to see this installation!

Program about my Handmade Paper Art Around the World is Now Available Online

10 Friday Jul 2020

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Just wanted to let everyone know that the Zoom program I did this past Wednesday, July 8, 2020, for Yolo Arts “Knowledge at Noon” is available to watch anytime online at this link: https://yoloarts.org/public-programs/

The program goes over my process of making paper from local plant materials and creating my handmade paper art at several different artist in residency projects in Taiwan and different countries as well as in the US. Hope you get a chance to see it and let me know what you think.

I am continuing to work in my studio here in our garage in Santa Rosa, CA, and I hope to be able to go out for other art projects later in this year or next. I am doing some individual consulting and one-on-one papermaking in my studio now. Let’s keep in touch by email at least. I look forward to hearing from you.
Take care and best wishes,
Jane

Living Quilt Blooming Again this Spring in Newnan, Georgia

13 Wednesday May 2020

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In this time of the Coronavirus quarantine, it is great to see that my “Living Quilt for Newnan” art installation is blooming again this Spring, for its third season.  This artwork was installed August 29, 2017 on the grounds of the children’s museum in Newnan, Georgia.  Earlier this week I received some amazing photos by email from people in Newnan, and this time the flowers blooming from the “living quilt” are brilliant red poppies. These beautiful red flowers are certainly a bright sign in these dark days of the virus. 

The red poppies in my Newnan art installation came from some pretty special vintage seeds!  The red poppy seeds that I included in the quilt were some that a distant relative of mine who lives in Newnan (Pick Parks) had stored in his freezer for over 20 years.  He gave me the seeds when I was in Newnan for my artist in residency project at Newnan Art Rez (www.newnanartists.org). Pick told me that his father had saved the poppy seeds over the years, and that his father was originally given the seeds by a Mr. Smith in Newnan.  Pick said that his father loved the red poppies and planted them all over their fields every year and saved the seeds.  Pick’s father passed on a few years ago, and Pick was happy to have these seeds used in my “Living Quilt for Newnan” art project.  When Pick gave me the envelope of red poppy seeds that he took from his freezer, none of us knew if the seeds would really germinate or not, but I put all of the seeds he gave me into the red parts of the Newnan “living quilt”.  It is wonderful to see them blooming there so profusely this Spring, and the people in Newnan plan to save the seeds from these poppies so that they can continue bringing joy. 

These photos of the red poppies were taken by Bette Hickman and Beth Neely in Newnan the first week in May 2020.

 

The photos below show how the Living Quilt for Newnan looked when it was installed on August 29, 2017.  I chose a house motif for the Newnan quilt design because Newnan is known as the “city of homes” and famous for many beautiful antebellum homes.  The quilt was made with handmade paper and had seeds for wildflowers in the pulp in the same colors and patterns.  In 2018 and 2019 other wildflowers in other colors appeared along with a few red poppies, but this year it is great to see such a profusion of red poppies. It shows us nature’s powers of rejuvenation, and that Nature just continues on in spite of what we do.    

the finished quilt installation Aug. 29, 2017 in Newnan, GA

Living Quilt for Santa Rosa blooming again!

14 Tuesday Apr 2020

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Today my husband Tim and I went by the site of my Living Quilt for Santa Rosa installation at Rincon Ridge Park in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa, CA. This public artwork was supported by a grant from the City of Santa Rosa as part of a call to artists to respond to the devastating wildfires of October 2017. It was great to see this evidence of the regenerative powers of nature and rejoice in the bright golden poppies, white linen poppies and small blue forget-me-nots and white allysium blooms.

These photos taken by my husband Timothy S. Allen show the art installation on April 13, 2020.  It is great to see this artwork surviving and thriving in these difficult times.

Here is a link to a youtube slide show about the artwork: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rfH104j92o
The video shows this artwork in all its phases as the handmade paper quilt with seeds for wildflowers in the pulp changes over time into a living bloom wildflower bed.

The headboard and footboard for the “bed” that was woven with trimmed tree branches, has blown over and been repaired and set back in place two different times after it blew down in storms with 70 mph+winds. Go out when you can to see the flowers in your neighborhood. 

2020 Upcoming Exhibitions and News

16 Thursday Jan 2020

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Happy New Year and Happy New Decade to all of you! I am happy to be in a new house in Santa Rosa and to have a new studio space in our garage at 5017 Maiden Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95409. Look for announcements in a few weeks about workshops and classes in hand papermaking at my new studio.

I am also happy to announce the following upcoming exhibitions in 2020:

Exhibition Title: Assemblage, 20 Years of Environmental Art at the Schuylkill Center, an invitational exhibition of works by former Artists-in-Residence and artists who have exhibited at Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Christina Catanese, Director of Environmental Art. I was the first artist-in-residence at the Schuylkill Center in 2001 with a grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and I will exhibit “Schuylkill Center Trail Map” made with handmade paper from plants of Schuylkill during the residency and also documentation of my recent work “Living Quilt for Santa Rosa” 2018 that was influenced by the work I did at Schuylkill using paper pulp with seeds for wildlfowers in the pulp to change and grow over time. Check these sites for more information about the exhibition: http://www.schuylkillcenter.org/art?ha_exhibit=assemblage and http://www.schuylkillcenter.org/blog/event/20-years-of-environmental-art-at-the-schuylkill-center-opening-reception/

Dates: January 30 – March 21, 2020, Opening Reception Jan. 30, 7-9 pm

Where: Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, 8480 Hagy’s Mill Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19120

Exhibition Title: Women’s Eco Artist Dialog: The Legacy of Jo Hanson, an invitational group exhibition of environmental artworks by members of WEAD (www.weadartists.org), curated by Janice Purnell, Creative Director, Yolo Arts. I will exhibit a new site-specific configuration of my installation “California Delta Rivers” made of handmade paper, seeds and string that highlights the importance of Northern California’s water resources.

Dates: March 12 – June 18, 2020

Where: Yolo Arts, The Barn Gallery, Woodland CA (https://yoloarts.org/the-barn-gallery/)

Exhibition Title: A Conversation with Paper, an invitational exhibition of handmade paper artworks by 18 selected members of IAPMA, international association of hand papermaking artists, curated by Jacqueline Mallegni and Deborah Fritz. I will exhibit a selection of my mixed media suspended two-sided handmade paper “site maps” created at various residencies in the US and other countries and made from materials collected in that place and time.

Dates: April 24-May 29, 2020

Where: GalleryFRITZ, Santa Fe, NM (https://www.galleryfritz.com)

Exhibition title: Labor-Natur (Laboratory of Nature), an invitational 3-person exhibition of artworks reflecting an artistic approach to scientific methods and examining questions about nature and the confrontation with our planet Earth at Haus zur Glocke, Steckborn, Switzerland, curated by Judit Villager, Curator, Haus zur Glocke (https://www.hauszurglocke.ch/home/). I will exhibit a selection of my handmade paper “site maps” created with handmade paper from plants of each place and reflecting my experimentation with over 200 plants for hand papermaking in projects around the world.

Dates: Nov. 21 – Dec. 12, 2020. Opening Reception Nov. 21, 5-8pm. Jane will attend the opening and give a talk about her work. Jane will be in Steckborn, Switzerland, from Nov 15 – 22, 2020, to install her works and to plan for an artist in residency project with Haus zur Glocke and a public art installation in Spring 2021.

Where: Haus zur Glocke, Steckborn, Switzerland

“Living Quilt for Santa Rosa” Featured in IN HABITAT online magazine about eco art and design

05 Thursday Sep 2019

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“Living Quilt for Santa Rosa” by Jane Ingram Allen Featured in IN HABITAT online magazine about eco art and design

Check out this great article about my recent public art project “Living Quilt for Santa Rosa” published on Sept. 4, 2019 at https://inhabitat.com/artist-creates-a-living-quilt-to-commemorate-santa-rosa-fires/

The artwork is still on view at Rincon Ridge Park in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa, California. Most of the flowers are now dormant, and many of the  the wildflowers flowers used in the “bed” will come back again next Spring.

Documentary photographs and a sample of the handmade paper quilt used for this public art project is also on display at an exhibition opening today in Santa Rosa at the Finley Community Center. The exhibition features 100 artworks created by residents of Santa Rosa in response to the October 2017 wildfires that devastated parts of the City.

Sonoma County

Residents Reflect

on the 2017

Wildfires

Recep􀆟on: September 5, 2019

5:00 -7:30 p.m.

Finley Recrea􀆟on Complex

2060 West College Ave

Santa Rosa, CA

Exhibition is on view through October 10 at the Person Senior Wing of the Finley Community Center.

Announcing Fall 2019 Papermaking and Art Classes

09 Friday Aug 2019

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Fall 2019 Papermaking and Art Classes
with Jane Ingram Allen
at Studio Santa Rosa, 3840 Finley Ave., Santa Rosa, CA, Building 32, Studio 107
To Register contact Jane by phone 857-234-2432 or email info@janeingramallen.com
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Introduction to Hand Papermaking
Saturday, Sept. 28, 10 AM – 4 PM – Class fee $125 includes materials
In this class learn to make handmade paper using Asian and Western fibers and techniques and create your own handmade paper that can be used for writing, painting, printing, sculpture or mixed media works. A variety of materials, tools, and techniques that Jane has learned in residencies around the world will be covered. This class is for beginning papermakers and more advanced papermakers who want to learn some new methods and use different materials.

Papermaking for Painters, Printers and Other 2-D Artists
Saturday, Oct. 12, 10AM -4 PM – Class fee $125 includes materials
Learn to make your own unique paper suitable for painting with oils, water colors or acyrlics and for use with a variety of printmaking and other techniques. Learn different ways of forming sheets up to 12 x 18 inches using Western and Asian methods with a variety of textures and colors and different plant fiber pulps. Also learn about sizing and pressing handmade paper and drying it in different ways for different purposes. Suitable for beginning or advanced painters, printmakers and mixed media artists who want to learn more about paper and how it is made and how to create unique paper artworks. Suitable for beginning and advanced participants.

Going International with your Art Career – Residencies and other Opportunities for Artists at Any Career Stage and Using Any Medium

Saturday, Oct. 19, 10AM – 4 PM – Class Fee $75 includes handouts
Learn how to find and win international residencies and other opportunities to see the world and make your art at the same time. Jane will tell about her experiences as a Fulbright Scholar artist in residence in Taiwan, a Fulbright Specialist artist in Turkey and a recipient of residency grants from organizations in Japan, Nepal, the Philippines, Brazil, Tanzania, China, Indonesia, Thailand and England and France as well as the US. Learn about where to look for opportunities and how to write a winning proposal. Jane will give individual advice about appropriate places and angles for your particular art. Bring your laptop computer if you have one and information about international opportunities you already are interested in and images/examples of your work, a resume and artist’s statement if you have one already. Leave with many possibilities for expanding your horizons and making your work in exotic and unique places around the world.

Handmade Paper Sculpture – 3-D Forms Using an Armature
Saturday, Nov. 16, 10AM – 4 PM – Class fee $125 includes materials
Make an armature of branches or reeds and cover it with handmade paper created from local plants and purchased pulps. You will learn to make a basket-like or 3-D shaped armature, and then learn to make handmade paper and attach it or cover the armature. Your finished creation could be a functional lantern or container or a suspended or standing sculpture. Open to beginning and advanced participants.

Suspended & Relief Sculpture with Handmade Paper and String
Saturday, Nov. 23, 10AM – 4 PM – Class fee $125 includes materials
Learn to make suspended or wall-hung sculpture with the hand papermaking process and string embedded between layers and different ways of joining handmade paper. Work with a variety of purchased pulps such as abaca, cotton (blue jeans) and other locally sourced plant fibers. Try pouring methods and different drying techniques for sculptural works. Sculptures can be suspended from the ceiling or project out from the wall. Suitable for sculptors, fiber artists and mixed media artists interested in creating sculptural works. For beginning and advanced papermakers.

Handmade Paper Holiday Cards and Ornaments
Sunday, December 8, 1-4PM – Class Fee $75 includes materials
Make your own holiday cards with handmade paper from a variety of pulps, using stencils and decorative elements. Also, create unique holiday ornaments using handmade paper, string and other elements. For beginning and advanced participants. No papermaking experience needed. Teens and pre-teens welcome with an accompanying adult.

About the Instructor: Jane Ingram Allen is an award-winning international artist and hand papermaking expert who moved to Santa Rosa in 2012. She has been an artist in residence in Japan, Taiwan, China, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey, Tanzania, France, England, Brazil, and the US. She was a Fulbright Scholar Award artist in Taiwan and a Fulbright Specialist artist in Turkey. She learned traditional Japanese papermaking in Japan and taught papermaking while living in Taiwan for 8 plus years. She was an art professor at SUNY, Morrisville, NY, and College of St. Rose, Albany, NY, and a Textile Arts instructor at Foothill College and Canada College in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been a museum curator and art writer for many years and has taught papermaking workshops in the 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, and Mass Audubon Visual Art Center, among others. She is also an international curator and has been an art writer for Sculpture magazine and other art publications since 1996.

Consulting and Private Studio Use: Jane offers individual consulting and private use of her papermaking studio. Students who have taken at least one class from Jane can arrange for Individual Papermaking Sessions for a minimum of 4 hours at $60, and have use of the studio and equipment. Jane will prepare materials for an agreed upon materials fee, and she will be there for consulting and advice.

Class size is limited to 4 people. Pre-registration and a deposit is required. To register, phone Jane at 857-234-2432 or email to info@janeingramallen.com