My exhibition of 80+ handmade paper artworks created in Santa Rosa and at artist residencies around the world are on view at Spring Lake Village Art Gallery, 5555 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, CA, till May 30, 2025. The show is open every day for viewing, and visitors should contact Spring Lake Village Art Committee Member, Les Saldanha, saldanhales@hotmail.com or cell phone 707-367-1874.
The opening reception is Saturday, April 12, 3:45 to 5PM with an Artist Talk in the Auditorium and reception in the Art Room immediately following.
Here are some photos of the exhibition at Spring Lake Village taken by my husband Timothy S. Allen.
My Solo Exhibition in Santa Rosa, CA, continues through April 30, 2025, and a new date has been set for the Artist Lecture and Opening Reception.
Jane Ingram Allen – Handmade Paper Art
March 3 – MAY 30, 2025 (THIS EXHIBITION IS NOW EXTENDED TILL MAY 30, 2025)
Spring Lake Village Art Gallery
5555 Montgomery Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Opening Reception & Artist Lecture:
New Date, Saturday April 12, 3:45 – 5 pm
This solo exhibition is a survey of selected works I created with my handmade paper over the past 25 years. It includes works from my travels as an artist to many different countries and parts of the US as well as works made since moving to California in 2012 to the present.
One of 80+ handmade paper artworks in this exhibition, Fire and Water 6, 36 x 24 inches, handmade kozo and abaca paper, dye, thread, acrylic gel, holes and controlled burning, made in Santa Rosa, CA, 2025.
Hope to see you at the Reception on April 12, 2025! Or, contact me at info@janeingramallen.com or by cell phone: 857-234-2432 to view the exhibition at another time before it closes on April 30, 2025.
Spring 2025 Papermaking Art Classes in Santa Rosa, CA, are all Full!
Contact me at info@janeingramallen.com if you want to receive my Fall 2025 Schedule of Papermaking Classes at my studio in Santa Rosa, CA.
Workshop Participant making paper with Kozo fibers.
Exhibition Announcement:
Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback, In Deep Water – Confluenc
Opening reception and Gallery Talk: June 28, 4-6pm
This exhibition will be the 2nd exhibition on the East Coast of our “In Deep Water” project about water and climate change. This collaborative project with printmaking artist Jami Taback began in 2020 and has also been presented at 3 venues in Northern California and in Taiwan. The presentation in Narrowsburg is happening at the same time as the community’s annual Riverfest that celebrates the Delaware River. For more information: https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/exhibition/jane-ingram-allen-jami-taback-in-deep-water/?back=ago
Jane Ingram Allen & Jami Taback, In Deep Water – Taiwan, installation of 36 panels of handmade paper and printmaking joined with threads, Live Forever Foundation Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan, 2023-24
The WEAD (Women Eco-Artists Dialog www.weadartists.org) juried online member exhibition “Lands and Symbiotic Futures” has concluded.
I had one work selected for this online exhibition, “Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve”, an outdoor installation consisting of a large handmade paper leaf in the shape of a Pepperwood tree leaf with seeds for native grasses in the pulp to grow over time in symbiotic relationship with the land.
Jane Ingram Allen, Living Leaf for Pepperwood Preserve, 3 x 10 x 1 feet, handmade paper, dye, soil, seeds for native grasses, wood boards, 2023-24, installed at Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA
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.
Because of an outbreak of COVID at Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa, CA, all events there have to be postponed. The Jane Ingram Allen Gallery Talk and Opening Reception scheduled for Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 3:45 to 5 pm will be re-scheduled as soon as it’s possible to do so safely. Keep watching here for updates, or contact Jane for more information: 857-234-2432 or info@janeingramallen.com
Jane Ingram Allen, “Grid Play” detail, 2024, handmade paper, dye, thread, 24″ x 78″ x 4″
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
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.
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.
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, CaliforniaPeeling 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
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!
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”
Jane Ingram Allen Art Projects 