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Jane’s “Living Quilt” – the Saga Continues

22 Friday Sep 2017

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bed, earth art, eco-art, environmental art, flower bed, handmade paper, nature, quilt, wildflowers

My “Living Quilt” installation in Newnan, Georgia, continues to change, and more plants are appearing. These photos taken by Newnan artist Bette Hickman show the latest transformation of the handmade paper quilt with wildflower seeds in the paper pulp. The work was installed on August 31 at the end of my artist-in-residency at Newnan Art Rez (www.newnanartist.org)
I will continue to post photos here sent in by local residents. Hopefully the wildflowers will bloom in a few months before frost. The “bed” with a headboard and footboard made with local branches and vines will last for many years.

Jane’s Work Exhibited in Brooklyn, NY at Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s Corridor Gallery

19 Tuesday Sep 2017

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Jane Ingram Allen is one of 16 artists invited to exhibit in the exhibition “In Our Nature” curated by Meridith McNeal at the Corridor Gallery of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation located at 334 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.  The exhibition opened on September 10, 2017, and continues through November 19, 2017.  The exhibition features art focused on nature and the state of our environment.  See the website at http://rushphilanthropic.org/exhibition/in-our-nature/ for more information about gallery hours and location.

In this show Jane is exhibiting two of her “Brooklyn Site Maps” created in 2003 during an artist-in-residency project at Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY (http://www.kentlergallery.org).  Below is a view of the current exhibition at Corridor Gallery with Jane’s “Red Hook Site Map” in the right foreground and a “Brooklyn Site Map” near the left end of the wall.  Jane created these map artworks using mixed media on handmade paper made in Brooklyn and collected debris from the streets of Red Hook to use in her interpretive maps of these areas of NYC.  Here is a link to more about the 2003 project Jane did at Kentler International Drawing Space:

http://www.kentlergallery.org/MultiSearch/Index?search=jane+ingram+allen

Here is a link to a review of the “In Our Nature” exhibition:

https://fineartconnoisseur.com/2017/09/whats-in-your-nature/

 

 

 

Newnan, GA Living Quilt Installation Survives Hurricane Irma

17 Sunday Sep 2017

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My artist-in-residency project at Newnan Art Rez (www.newnanartist.org) in Newnan, Georgia, “Living Quilt for Newnan”, was installed on August 31, 2017. Just a few days after the installation Hurricane Irma arrived.  The art installation survived this latest hurricane to strike Florida and the southeastern coast of the US. My “Living Quilt for Newnan” installation consists of a handmade paper quilt in a house pattern with seeds for wildflowers in the pulp to transform over time into a living blooming work of art. The quilt is installed on a “flower bed” of soil with a headboard and footboard I made with local branches and vines. The installation seems to have survived well the heavy rain and winds in the Newnan area.  There were some power outages in the area that lasted a few days.  We wish all the people in the areas hit by the two recent US hurricanes all the best.

Here are some photos of the art installation in Newnan taken a few days after the installation and before the hurricane showing the transformation beginning and plants starting to appear as the handmade paper dissolves.

The last group of photos are showing the installation after Hurricane Irma came through last week. You can see the plants are growing bigger, and there are lots of loose twigs and leaves on the ground from the storm. These two sets of photos are by artist and Newnan Art Rez board member, Bette Hickman. Thank you, Bette!

I will continue to post photos on this Blog when I receive them from the people in Newnan. Hope the “living quilt” will grow well and provide lots of flowers for people in Newnan to enjoy.

Newnan Living Quilt is Installed!

01 Friday Sep 2017

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The Newnan Living Quilt is installed

Jane speaking at the opening ceremony

detail of the installed quilt

another view of the installed quilt

Jane and Bette Hancock getting ready for the installation

Many children helped install the quilt squares

Robert Hancock, Newnan Art Rez Board Member spoke at the installation ceremony

local children line up to install the quilt squares

Jane speaking at the opening ceremony

Just before the installation of the quilt squares – it was sunny!

putting in a stake

Bed just before the quilt is installed

all the children who helped install the handmade paper quilt squares

View of Newnan Living Quilt from the foot of the bed

 

the finished quilt installation

Watering the installed quilt to start the seed germination

Bette Hickman and others looking at the Newnan papermaking plants sample book

installing quilt squares

view of the installed “Newnan Living Quilt” and the Male Academy Museum building

close up of putting in a stake to hold the handmade paper quilt on the ground

putting in the stakes

Jane and the children getting ready to water the “quilt”

installing another quilt square

Carrying a quilt square to be installed

a side view of the installed quilt

Jane and Robert Hancock looking at the installation

putting in the borders

Offering a blessing at the end of the installation ceremony

the mayor speaks to the people gathered for the installation of the Newnan Living Quilt

children installing the squares

Participants looking at the installed quilt

Bette Hickman and Jane laying out the inner borders

the finished Living Quilt for Newnan

 

Mayor of Newnan and grand-daughters looking at the quilt squares

close up of the installed quilt

My “Living Quilt for Newnan – City of Homes” was installed at 6 PM on Thursday, August 31, 2017. The weather turned out perfect with even some sunshine after a morning and evening before of heavy rains. Many people came out to enjoy the installation and dedication ceremony including the mayor of Newnan and Art Rez Board Members and many local children who helped to install the handmade paper quilt squares. We staked down the quilt with bamboo skewers with a cork on top, all being biodegradable materials.

The quilt is made with hand papermaking using stencils and dyed pulp from purchased and local plant materials and has seeds in the paper pulp for Southeastern wildflowers in the same colors as the quilt pattern.  I used bark from cedar, crepe myrtle, magnolia, mulberry, paper bush and wisteria to make paper in Newnan and created a recipe and sample book for Newnan papermaking plants.   The Newnan Living Quilt has a house motif and features a 2-story antebellum home in red, yellow, blue and white colors. The homes are around a square in the middle of each 20-inch quilt square, and each home is composed of 8 layers of handmade paper with natural string in between layers helping to hold it all together.

At the August 31 ceremony, local children laid out the squares and put in the stakes, and then a local minister/poet offered a prayer/blessing for the quilt. I am very grateful to all the volunteers who helped make the handmade paper quilt and construct the “bed. The headboard and footboard are made with local branches collected along the streets of Newnan after people had done some tree trimming. The headboard and footboard also contain wisteria and other vines and lots of hydrangea blossoms that someone had recently clipped off and left to be picked up.

This project was lots of fun for me although lots of work in the 3 weeks of my residency. Thanks to my husband Timothy S. Allen who was with me during the residency in Newnan and helped with all aspects of this project as well as taking great photographs to document it. For more of Tim’s photos see his Blog at http://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com

I was an artist in residence at Newnan Art Rez from August 8 to Sept. 1, 2017. We leave Newnan today, and I hope the quilt will change over time with the seeds sprouting and blooming as a living quilt for Newnan. Check back here to see photos of the quilt as it changes over time. I am hoping that local volunteers will continue to send me photos. Thank you, Newnan, for a wonderful residency experience!

For more information about the artist-in-residency program in Newnan, visit the website at http://newnanartist.org

 

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