• About

Jane Ingram Allen Art Projects

Jane Ingram Allen Art Projects

Tag Archives: eco-art

“Flower Power” Installation at Yolo Arts, Woodland, CA, coming to life!

07 Tuesday Apr 2020

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

CA, eco-art, gun violence, spring, WEAD Women's Eco Art Dialog, wildflowers, Woodland, Yolo Arts

The photo below shows my art installation”Flower Power” at Yolo Arts in Woodland, CA, on April 6, 2020,and the photo below shows the artwork as installed on March 5, 2020.  This installation is meant to change over time with the handmade paper “guns” having seeds for wildflowers in the pulp and transforming the guns into flowers.  It’s great to see the power of Nature and signs of Spring and hope in these difficult times.  This artwork was installed just before we all were quarantined with the Coronavirus pandemic in California.  My outdoor installation for this exhibition of eco-artworks by selected WEAD members is part of an exhibition at the Barn Gallery, Yolo Arts, Woodland, CA, and will be on view indefinitely.  There are also links online to see the show virtually.  It is great to get the photos and thanks to Janice Purnell, Curator and Creative Director at Yolo Arts.  Here is the link to see the show online: https://yoloarts.org/online-galleries/

 

Exhibition Opening at Yolo Arts, Woodland, CA on Thursday, March 12, 5:30-8PM

07 Saturday Mar 2020

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

California Delta, eco-art, environmental art, hand papermaking, papermaking, rivers, water, water resources, wildflower seeds, wildflowers, Women Eco Artists Dialog, Woodland, Yolo Arts

Hope you can come to the opening of this group exhibition in Woodland, CA, where I will have two installations featured:
One is an indoor site specific installation of my “California Delta Rivers” first created in 2013 and re-configured to make a wall drawing installation for this exhibition focused on the water resources in northern CA. The work is made with handmade paper and cotton threads and pulp is dyed with fiber reactive dyes. Here is a photo of California Delta Rivers as installed at the Barn Gallery in Woodland.



I also have an outdoor installation in this exhibition. My “Flower Power” installation consists of many handmade paper “guns” with seeds for wildflowers in the pulp that will transform the “guns” over time into living blooming wildflowers. This installation is place in a prepared raised bed just outside the Barn Gallery, and focuses on using nature as a partner and the regenerative power of nature. The handmade paper will dissolve as mulch to nourish the earth and the seeds sprout and grow into blooming wildflowers. Here is a photo of “Flower Power” when it was first installed outside the Barn Gallery in Woodland.



My works are part of the group exhibition Women Eco Artists Dialog: The Legacy of Jo Hanson, at Yolo Arts, the Barn Gallery 512 Gibson Rd., Woodland, CA. The exhibition will be on view through June 18, 2020 and features works about environmental issues by selected WEAD artists:  Jane Ingram Allen, Krista Anandakuttan, Angela Gonzalez, Maria Paz Gutierrez, Cynthia Jensen, Elizabeth Kenneday-Corathers, Judith Selby Lang, Isabella La Rocca, Linda MacDonald, Carol Newborg, Lisa Reindorf, Lorna Stevens, Michelle Waters, Melissa West, Tammy West, and Mary Bayard White.  See the Yolo Arts website at http://www.yoloarts.org for more information and gallery hours.

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

05 Thursday Sep 2019

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

CA, eco-art, handmade paper, quilt, Santa Rosa, wildfires, wildflowers

“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.

Living Quilt for Santa Rosa is still blooming and some flowers are going to seed.

11 Tuesday Jun 2019

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

art installation, CA, eco-art, flower bed, Fountaingrove Parkway, handmade paper, papermaking, quilt, Rincon Ridge Park, Santa Rosa, seeds, wildflowers

My Living Quilt for Santa Rosa installation continues to bloom. It is very hot now in Santa Rosa, over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and it’s also very dry now. Some of the flowers are now making seeds and the plants will hopefully come again next season. Here are some photos of the installation taken this past weekend showing blooming cornflowers and other flowers going to seed.  Somehow one red poppy also appeared in this installation!

This artwork was installed on Nov. 25, 2018, and it is located at Rincon Ridge Park in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa, CA. I received a grant from the City of Santa Rosa to do this art project that involves handmade paper and seeds for wildflowers with participation by community volunteers. Check posts from November 2018 and following in this Blog for more information and photos of the changing over time installation.  All photos are by my husband Timothy S. Allen (allentimphotos2.wordpress.com).

Living Quilt for Newnan featured in online publication this week

07 Saturday Oct 2017

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

bette hickman, eco-art, environmental art, flower bed, installation art,, Newnan Art Rez, Newnan Georgia, paper pulp, papermaking, plants, public art, seeds, timothy s. allen, wildflowers

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:

http://helenhiebertstudio.com/viewing-a-life-through-paper/

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.

  

Jane’s “Living Quilt” – the Saga Continues

22 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

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.

Eco-Art Project in San Francisco at 2016 Bioneers Conference

30 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

BIONEERS Conference, California drought, Eco Art Matters, eco-art, environmental art, Laney College, papermaking, San Francisco art, water and environment, WEAD Women's Eco Art Dialog

I am doing an environmental art installation here in the SF area as an exhibiting artist for the 2016 Bioneers Conference (http://conference.bioneers.org)
to be held Oct. 21-23 at the Marin Center, San Rafael, California. I will present an interactive installation called “Every Drop Counts”. For the 2016 Bioneers conference, the WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) organization (www.weadartists.org) is organizing an art exhibition about “Reciprocity” with an environmental theme showing how art can contribute to more public awareness of environmental issues such as water conservation.

every-drop-counts-2008-detail

I will go to Laney College, Oakland, on Tuesday, October 11 to work with the art class “Eco Art Matters” to create hundred of handmade paper “drops” using blue paper pulp made from old blue jeans and other recycled paper with seeds for blue wildflowers in the pulp. At the 4 days of the Bioneers Conference Oct. 21-23 at the Marin Center, San Rafael, the installation will be displayed and visitors invited to make a pledge to conserve water and take a “drop” from the installation home with them to plant and water until it transforms into blue wildflowers….or save the “drop” on the refrigerator to remind them to conserve water. Lack of water is one of the most pressing problems in northern California in the last few years because of prolonged drought and global warming effects.
Water is a concern all over the world, and this installation has been shown in several other venues…it has been in a NYC gallery, in a gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as at a university gallery in Taiwan. This will be its debut in California with new drops being made at the Laney College class and maintained during the conference by Laney College students and the two art professors (Andree Thompson and Sharon Siskin).

Here are some photos of the installation in New York City at Tenri Gallery in 2009 and in Geneva, Switzerland at the Villa Dutoit, for the Paper/Fiber Art Biennial in 2016.

every-drop-counts-2008 every-drop-counts-in-switzerland-biennial

Check back here to see more photos of the papermaking workshop at Laney College on Oct. 11 and also to see the installation of “Every Drop Counts” at the 2016 Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, Oct. 21-23, 2016.

Jane’s Art Installed at Boston Harbor Islands National Park Welcome Center, Long Wharf, Boston, MA

20 Tuesday Sep 2016

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

Boston Harbor Islands National Park, Boston Harbor Now, eco-art, endangered birds, environmental art, hand papermaking, handmade paper art, installation art,, invasive plants, Peddock's Island, sculpture, water birds

I am back in Santa Rosa, California now after almost two months on the East Coast.  It was great to see things in Boston and New York City, but also nice to be back in California.  I wanted to share some additional photos of my handmade paper artwork installed in Boston.  Please see my previous posts for more about the process and how this artwork was created on Peddock’s Island, Boston Harbor Islands National Park.

img_0852 img_1578 img_1581 img_0844

During my August 17 – 25, 2016, Artist in Residency Project at Boston Harbor Islands National Park, Peddock’s Island, I created a handmade paper artwork that is now installed at the Boston Harbor Islands Welcome Center on Long Wharf. Jane created this artwork “For the Birds of Peddock’s Island” with handmade paper from invasive plants on Peddock’s Island (Common reed, Oriental Bittersweet Vine and Japanese Honeysuckle Vine). The handmade paper birds in this artwork were created by many public participants during a weekend workshop on Peddock’s Island. The birds in the artwork represent 6 endangered species of water birds on Peddock’s Island (Lesser Tern, Double-crested Cormorant, American Oystercatcher, Great Egret, Spotted Sandpiper and Black-crowned Night Heron). This artwork will remain on view at the Islands Welcome Center, and it can be seen up close when the Center is open during the day and at night through the large lighted glass window. Thanks again to the wonderful volunteers who helped with the papermaking on Peddock’s Island and to the many visitors who came to participate in the public activities and contributed their handmade paper birds to this installation artwork for the Boston Harbor Now Foundation and the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.

These photos are by my husband Timothy S. Allen (allentimphotos2.wordpress.com).

Jane’s Artist in Residency Project Begins in Lancaster, California

18 Thursday Feb 2016

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

Cedar Center for the Arts, eco-art, environmental art, hand papermaking, high desert plants, Lancaster CA, Museum of Art and History, WEAD Women's Eco Art Dialogue

I am now working in Lancaster, California, as an artist in residence at the Museum of Art & History, Cedar Center for the Arts. Lancaster is located in the Antelope Valley high desert country on the western edge of the Mojave Desert and about 70 miles northeast of Los Angeles. My residency is sponsored by WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialogue) in conjunction with the WEAD group exhibition titled “Smaller Footprints” also at Cedar Center for the Arts in Lancaster, CA.

IMG_2115
My eco-art project in Lancaster got started on Saturday, Feb. 13, with an Introductory lecture and presentation for the community at Cedar Arts Center from 6-8 PM. I introduced my work with a slide show and showed examples of handmade paper and talked about my process and what I will create here in Lancaster during the residency.

Here are a few photos of the Introduction presentation at Cedar Art Center where I showed images of previous environmental art installations and talked about my idea for the Lancaster art project.

IMG_2124  IMG_2128    IMG_2142

My Lancaster Eco-Quilt will be all biodegradable and changing over time with the paper pulp dissolving as mulch and the flower seeds in the pulp sprouting and blooming for years to come, hopefully.

My Lancaster Eco-Quilt will have a motif of California golden poppies, and I will place it on prepared ground in a city park or nature preserve to decompose over time and produce a living, blooming bed of wildflowers in the quilt pattern. I will also build up a bed shape with the earth and create a headboard and footboard for the bed with local branches. I have looked at several possible sites in Lancaster for my eco-art installation, and we will make the final decision in a few weeks about the exact location.

I am making the Lancaster eco-quilt with handmade paper I create from local plant waste materials and putting seeds for California golden poppies and California desert bluebells in the pulp. Here is a sketch of my idea for the Lancaster eco-quilt.

sketch of Lancaster Eco-quilt copy

I learned that the Antelope Valley area is famous for California golden poppies, and there is a nearby Poppy Preserve. I visited the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve over the weekend and did see one or two California poppies starting to bloom, so this seemed like the perfect flower to use for my art project in Lancaster. The California desert bluebell will provide a nice contrasting blue flower in the quilt squares, and I will also use some white wildflower seeds (baby’s breath) for the border of the quilt.

I started gathering local plant materials this week and will be making paper for the project from Joshua tree leaves, fan palm leaves, sagebrush and other local plants. It will be very interesting to try out these high desert plants that are new ones for me to experiment with, although I have used relatives of some of these plants in other places around the world. I will be coloring the paper pulp with a non-toxic dye and using some recycled blue jean pulp for the blue areas of the quilt.

This coming Saturday, Feb. 20 I will hold a public workshop on Papermaking with Local Plants, and it will be at the Cedar Center for the Arts, MOAH, Lancaster, CA, from 11-1 and 3-5. Everyone is invited to come and join in the papermaking fun.
My residency at the Cedar Center for the Arts in Lancaster will continue through March 13, and the installation for the eco-quilt will be on Saturday, March 12.  Public programs are scheduled for each Saturday.

Keep checking this Blog for updates and more photos of the papermaking and the Lancaster eco-art quilt project. The photos documenting this project are by my husband Timothy S. Allen (http://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com).

Happy New Year and reminder about deadlines for the 2016 eco-art projects I curate in Taiwan each year

03 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by janeingramallen in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

artist-in-residency, Cheng Long, Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project, eco-art, Ege University, environmental art, Fulbright, Izmir, Keelung, NMMST, papermaking, Taiwan, Turkey

Hello Everyone,

I hope that your 2016 is happy, healthy and adventurous!  This photo shows me working in Izmir, Turkey, on my recent Fulbright Specialist grant project with the Museum of Paper & Book Arts, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.  My experience as an artist in residence in Turkey was great, and I am looking forward to more adventures in 2016.

PAINTING IZMIR MAP_MG_0386

I wanted to remind artists to send applications soon for the 2016 eco-art projects I curate in Taiwan. This Spring I will again be going back to Taiwan to curate two environmental art projects that invite international artists to come to Taiwan for a 25-day residency and create site-specific environmental art projects. Selected artists receive a stipend of US$2000, airfare, accommodations, meals and volunteer help.

The deadline for applications is coming up fast for the Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Yunlin County, Taiwan. All application materials must be submitted by email to me at allenrebeccajanei@gmail.com by January 15, 2016. Selected artists will come to Cheng Long from April 7 to May 2, 2016, and the theme is “Meet the Future in Cheng Long”. For complete details about what to send to apply see the Blog at http://artproject4wetland.wordpress.comMarisa

This photo shows Marisa Merlin’s 2015 installation in Cheng Long Wetlands.

I will also be curating the 2nd eco-art project in Keelung, Taiwan, with the National Museum of Marine Science & Technology. Look at the Museum’s website at http://www.nmmst.gov.tw Then click on to English and Activities and you will see the 2016 Call for Proposals. The theme for 2016 is “Envisioning the Future , and it is the 130th anniversary for Keelung port. Selected artists for the Keelung project will be in residency in Taiwan from May 12 to June 6, 2016.

outdoor installation by Taiwanese artist Chris Lee at the 2015 NMMST International Environmental Art Project in Keelung, Taiwan

outdoor installation by Taiwanese artist Chris Lee at the 2015 NMMST International Environmental Art Project in Keelung, Taiwan

The deadline for applications to the Cheng Long project is January 15 2016, and the deadline for applications to the Keelung art project is February 15, 2016. Hope to see your applications soon.

← Older posts

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • November 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • September 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013

Categories

  • For the Birds
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Cancel
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy