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“In Deep Water – We’re in This Together” opens in Taiwan

30 Thursday Nov 2023

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The collaborative art project of Jane Ingram Allen and Jami Taback opens Saturday, Dec. 2, 3-5 pm at Live Forever Foundation Vital Space Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan. The site-specific installation about water and climate change is on display until March 2, 2024, at the gallery in Taichung. The installation in Taiwan is part of the exhibition titled “Water Says” curated by Iris Hung, and also featuring work by two Taiwanese artists about water and the environment. The two artists from Santa Rosa, CA will be in Taiwan until Dec. 5, when they return to CA. Jane and Jami and their husbands Tim and Steve are enjoying touring around Taiwan and meeting interesting people, eating great food and sharing their art. Here are a few photos of “In Deep Water” being installed at Live Forever Foundation in Taichung. The photos are by Timothy S. Allen. Follow this link for more info about the Live Forever Foundation: https://www.live-forever.com.tw/foundation.php

Living Quilt for Newnan featured in online publication this week

07 Saturday Oct 2017

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My recent installation “Living Quilt for Newnan” created during my August 2017 artist in residency in Newnan, Georgia, is featured on the SUNDAY PAPER Blog of papermaking artist and author Helen Hiebert. Here is the link:

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Keep checking my Blog to see photos of the changes in the Newnan installation. Newnan Art Rez board member and artist Bette Hickman continues to take photos and send them to me. The wildflowers are growing! Hope to see some blooms soon before frost. This installation was created during a residency at Newnan Art Rez http://www.newnanartist.org
Photos on the Blog at helenhiebertstudio.com are by my husband Timothy S. Allen http://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com  The photos below taken on Sept. 29 are by Bette Hickman.

  

Going to Turkey – Fulbright grant art project

23 Friday Oct 2015

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I am happy to announce that I have received a Fulbright Specialist Grant for an art project in Turkey at Ege University, Museum of Paper and Book Arts, Izmir, Turkey.
I will be flying to Turkey on November 18, 2015 and return to San Francisco on December 16, 2015. For the first week I will be in Istanbul touring some of the sites and seeing art museums and galleries on my own, and then going to Izmir on November 25 for the start of my Fulbright grant project.

Here is a photo showing the outside of the Museum of Paper & Book Arts at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, and a group of visiting students.

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During the 20-day Fulbright Specialist grant in Izmir, I will be exploring the plants around Izmir to use for my papermaking art and creating some new artworks using local materials and inspired by the place. I will also teach papermaking workshops at the Ege Univerisity Musuem of Paper and Book Arts and consult with the Museum and the university about curriculum in paper arts and environmental art.  I will also help them to set up a papermaking studio or workshop at the Museum.  I will also have an exhibition of my handmade paper artworks at EgeArt 2015, an international art festival held in Izmir from Dec. 11-13, 2015.  My exhibition will include some of the handmade paper “site maps” I have created in other residencies around the world, including during my 2004 and 2005 Fulbright grant projects in Taiwan and a 2010 artist in residency project in Bali, Indonesia.  Here are some photos of a Taiwan Site Map and a Bali Site Map.

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I know the Paper & Book Arts Museum in Turkey through my international art project “One World Many Papers” that was a collaborative paper artwork I created with artists from around the world.  I asked the participating artists to send me a sheet of paper they made to represent their country and then I joined all the sheets of paper together to make a large map of the world having no political borders.  The finished piece was donated to the Paper & Book Arts Museum in Turkey at Ege Univeristy, Izmir, in 2011, shortly after the museum opened.  Before getting its permanent home in Turkey, this artwork was seen in exhibitions around the world in 2009 and 2010.  Here is a photo of the finished artwork.  For more information about my “One World – Many papers Project” please visit my other Blog: http://www.janeingramallenart.blogspot.com

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I will be posting on this WordPress Blog more about the work I do in Izmir.  Please check back later in November for photos of the places I see and the artwork I make during this art project in Turkey. My husband Timothy S. Allen is going with me to Turkey, and he will be taking lots of photos to document my work and also photos of our experiences in Turkey. His Blog is at http://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com

Going to Taiwan for 3 months, March 5 – June 2, 2014

01 Saturday Mar 2014

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My husband Tim and I will be going to Taiwan again this Spring for 3 months.  We fly from SF to Taipei on March 5 and will return to Santa Rosa on June 2.

During the three months I will be doing two art projects creating my own artworks at two universities in Taiwan and also again curating the Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Cheng Long village.  Tim and I both will be doing lectures at Hsuiping University of Science and Technology in Taichung and visiting with friends in Taichung and other parts of Taiwan.  Here is our schedule for the time in Taiwan:

Tim and Jane’s  Schedule for Taiwan Trip 2014

March 5 – Fly from SFO

March 6 – Arrive Taiwan

March 6 – March 16: Stay in Taichung, lectures at Hsuiping University

March 16 – 29:  Nan Hwa University, Dalin, Chiayi Country, Jane will do an artist-in- residency project with the university students in the Department of Environmental Design, creating an outdoor public art installation on campus with hand papermaking and natural materials.

March 29 – April 10 – stay in Taichung

April 10 – May 5:  Jane be curating the 2014 Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Cheng Long village, Yunlin County.  The art project has a Blog at http://artproject4wetland.wordpress.com

May 5 – 11 – stay in Taichung, lectures at Hsuiping University

May 11-24-  stay at Kun Shan University in Tainan.  Jane will be a visiting artist at this university to teach papermaking art for the graduate students and give lectures for the students about environmental art and hand papermaking.  Tim will have a photography exhibition at the campus gallery and assist with the teaching to include using photography with handmade paper art.

May 24- 25  Stay in Taichung – return to Taichung and stay with Eliza

May 25-29 – go to Hwa Yuan village, Hsinchu County.  Jane will be an artist in residency at the village and work with the elementary school to create a site-specific handmade paper site map about the Pith Paper plant that is grown in this village.

May 29 – June 2 – stay in Taichung

June 2 – fly back to SFO, USA

Be sure to check back often so see posts about the residencies and projects in Taiwan during these three months.

Sitka Center for Art & Ecology Artist-in-Residency, Oct. 2013 – Jan. 2014

11 Monday Nov 2013

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I was awarded an artist-in-residence at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology in Otis, Oregon, from October 16, 2013 to January 10, 2014.  The Sitka Center is located in the northwestern part of Oregon on the coast just above Lincoln City.  It is a beautiful area, and Sitka Center is part of the Cascade Head National Scenic Research Area.  They have wonderful studios and small cabins for the residents here.  We are living amidst tall Sitka Spruce trees and also able to see the ocean where the Salmon River runs into the sea.  There are many elk here we are told – haven’t seen one up close yet but I have seen a big herd of elk far up on the mountainside. 

I am having a great time making my handmade paper art in the big and light-filled Boyden Studio at Sitka Center.  This studio has great facilities for a papermaking with a huge bathtub sink, stove and lots of tables and also a high ceiling for my suspended installations.  One of the things I started when I first arrived here was making paper with some pulp I brought with me, kozo and blue jean pulp.  I noticed the Sitka logo form that is on all the signs around here.  So, I decided to make some handmade paper that was inspired by the Sitka logo, a spiral form, that reminds me of the ocean, the wind and waves.  A poet Tom Crawford, also a resident artist here now, and I may collaborate with a calligrapher to put one of his Sitka inspired poems on some of my handmade paper.

Here are some photos of me working in the Sitka Center studio and making the Sitka Center symbol-inspired handmade paper.  I am drying the paper on sheets of non-woven interfacing, and I used buttercut to make the spiral stencil on a round embroidery hoop frame with ordinary fiberglass window screening on it.

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I am also making paper from plant materials collected here for a Sitka site map and other works I am planning.  I have made paper from 3 plants so far and have 3 others gathered and ready to cook up and make pulp.  I will keep posting here with news about the results from the Sitka plants and the new artworks I am making.

My husband Tim is here with me at the Sitka residency and he is enjoying taking photos of everything.  For some really great photographs of the Sitka area and the Oregon coast (also some of my art projects!), take a look at my husband Timothy S. Allen’s photo blog at http://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com