EDUCATION
M. Ed. degree in art education, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,
1970.
B.A. degree in art and English, summa cum laude, Alabama College, Montevallo,
AL, 1961.
Additional courses in art and art history at various institutions.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 “Made in Taiwan: Taiwan Site Maps,” Suho Memorial Paper Culture Foundation
and
Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Taipei Site Maps,” American Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2003 “Site Maps – Red Hook,” Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn,
NY
“Of Time and the River,” Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
“Feathered and Unfettered,” Albany Center Galleries at Butzell Gallery, Schenectady
High School of the Arts, Schenectady, NY
2001 “Site Maps,” Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia,
PA
“Different Views,” Phoenix Gallery Project Room, New York, NY
“Jane Ingram Allen - The New York Years- 1988-2001,” Rome Art & Community
Center,
Rome, NY
2000 “Bird Watching in Rochester,” Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY
1999 “3 For the Birds,” Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA
“Map Room 2", Central New York Community Arts Council Gallery, Utica, NY
“Bird Watching on Lake George,” Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
1998 “For the Birds Too," Rathbone Gallery, Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
“The Map Room,” University Art Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport,
CT
“4 the Birds,” Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
1997 “Bird Watching 3 - Migration,” Castellane Gallery, outdoor sculpture exhibition
on an
abandoned barn, Rte. 46, Munnsville, NY
“Hair Shirts & Other Garments,” downtown storefront window installation,
Utica, NY
1996 “Colors - New Works,” Percival Galleries, Des Moines, Iowa
“Spiral Shelter and “Silo Shelter” outdoor sculpture/installations, Duntog Foundation,
Baguio City, Philippines
“Winter Heat,” Arts Center/Old Forge, Old Forge, NY
1995 “Patterns” and “In the Clouds,” 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY
1994 “Shadows and Mirrors,” Rome Art & Community Center, Rome, NY
“In the Clouds,” Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New York
1993 “Jane Ingram Allen - Sculpture and Installation Art,” City University Graduate
Center Mall, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 International Exhibition at Arai Residence, Art Base Null, Osaka, Japan.
International Paper Art Exhibition, Japan Paper Academy Symposium, Kyoto International
Community House. Kyoto, Japan.
2003 “Accessibility 2003 – From the Outside In,” Sumter, SC.
”Lost & Found, Martinez Gallery, Troy, NY.
“Fire & Ice,” Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY.
“ISC Member Exhibition,” Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
2002 “Haven–Artists Talk About the Residency,” Arts Center of the Capital Region,
Troy, NY
“Color…y mas color,” Martinez Gallery, Troy, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Trink Gallery, Cohoes, NY
“Pieces of Six,” Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
2001 “Spirit of Place – Site Ecology,” outdoor sculpture exhibition, Huntington,
VT
2000 “Assembled Imagery,” Barrett Art Gallery, Utica College, Utica, NY
“Paper at the Millennium,” American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
“Fragile Structures,” Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
“Beyond Bricks and Mortar,” OIA exhibition at the New York Mercantile Exchange
Gallery, New York, NY
“Patterned Flowers,” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
“Art in the Heart of the City,” Ithaca Commons, Ithaca, NY
“Elements 2000,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1999 “Paper Art Village Project, Mino Washi Museum, Mino City, Japan
“Material Sensibility,” Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY
“Site Specifics,” Islip Art Museum Carriage House, E. Islip, NY
“New Talent Invitational,” Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
“Available Space: Explorations in Installation,” Smithtown Township Arts Council,
Mills
Pond House, St. James, NY
1998 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota
BWAC Pier Show Sculpture Installation, Brooklyn, NY
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, Texas
“50/50" invitational group exhibition, Gallery OneTwentyEight, New York,
NY
“Pulp Art: Investigations into Slurry,” national invitational handmade paper
art exhibition,
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
“Black Velvet and Other Tactile Delights,” Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center,
Buffalo,
NY
1997 “Between the Bridges”, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY.
1996 “The Harvest Show,” Gallery 53 - Artworks, Cooperstown, NY
“For the Birds,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1995 “Exposure & Vulnerability”, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn,
NY
“Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood,” Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA
“Recycling with Imagination: Art from Detritus 2", Kansas City, MO
"Once Is Not Enough: Repeated Forms by Seven Artists", Utica College
Barrett Art
Gallery, Chenango County Council of the Arts Gallery, Gannett Gallery, SUNY
Tech
Utica-Rome, Wells College Gallery, and Nassau Community College Gallery
“Refiguring the Figure”, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
1994 "Figuration: a Visual Dialogue on the Human Form, Firehouse Art Gallery,
Nassau
Community College, Garden City, NY
"Paper Works", University Art Gallery, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook,
NY
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2004-05 Fulbright Scholar Award Grant Extension for one-year artist in residency
expanded project in Taiwan, supported by the National Council for Cultural Affairs
2003-04 Fulbright Scholar Award, 6-month research grant for artist in residency
at the Suho Memorial Paper Culture Foundation and Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2003 Artist & Communities Grant, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, for residency
at Delaware
Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE.
Puffin Foundation Artist Award for “Bird Watching on the Hudson,” Troy, NY
SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2001 Artist as Catalyst Grant, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, for artist-in-residency
at Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA.
Residency Fellowship, Sacatar Foundation, Bahia, Brazil
SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2000 Individual Artist Grant, Empire State Craft Alliance, Syracuse, New York.
Professional Development Grant, State University of New York United University
Professions
Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
1999 Grant for three-month residency in Japan at Paper Art Village Project,
Mino city, JAPAN
SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1998 Artist-in-Residency Award, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers
Ferry, WV
Professional Development grant, State University of New York
Workshop Artist Award, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Statewide Artist Workshop
Program
1997 Individual Artist Grant, Ruth Chenven Foundation, New York, NY
SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1996 Residency Grant, Duntog Foundation, Baguio City, Philippines
1995 SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1994 SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1993 SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1992 Empire State Crafts Alliance Artist Grant
Professional Development Grant, State University of New York
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil.
Mino Culture Hall, Mino City, Japan
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV
University Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Operations Center, East Rutherford, NJ.
Employers Mutual Casualty Cos., Des Moines, Iowa.
Corning Natural Gas Company, Corning, NY.
Corning Glass Credit Union, Corning, NY.
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP), New York, NY.
University of Iowa Hospitals, Ames, Iowa.
Allied Insurance Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa.
First Interstate Bank, Des Moines, Iowa.
Barnett Bank, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Motorola Corporation, Delray Beach, Florida.
Louisiana State University, Alexandria, Louisiana.
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY Awards
2004 Suho Memorial Paper Culture Foundation and Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (Fulbright
Scholar
Award)
2003 Sumter Public Schools, Sumter, SC
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
Monarch Sculpture Park, Tenino, WA
2002 Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil
2001 Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
Nepal Crafts Collection, Kathmandu, Nepal
1999 Mino Paper Art Village Project, Mino City, Japan
1998 Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV
Connemara Conservancy, Plano, TX.
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shaffer, MN.
1996 Duntog Foundation, Baguio City, Philippines
1993 Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
SELECTED PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2004 “Blue River,” Treasure Hill Community Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2003 “Bird Watching in Schenectady,” Schenectady, NY
“Bird Watching in Pelham,” Pelham, NY.
“Making My Bed,” Sumter, SC.
”Global Warming,” Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE.
2002 “Flag of Many Flags,” First Night Saratoga, Saratoga Springs, NY
2001 “Bird Watching in Cazenovia,” public art installation in downtown Cazenovia,
NY
“Millennium Leave Taking,” First Night Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
“Bird Watching at the Schuylkill Center, Schuylkill Center for Environmental
Education,
Philadelphia, PA
2000 “Bird Watching in Rochester,” outdoor sculpture installation at Visual
Studies Workshop, sponsored by Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY
“Bird Watching in Ithaca,” Ithaca Commons, Ithaca, NY
1999-2000 “Bird Watching in Japan,” Mino Bridge, Mino City, Japan
1999 “Bird Watching in Lake George,” outdoor installation in Lake George, NY
1998 “Bird Watching 5", outdoor sculpture installation, capital plaza,
Providence, RI
“Bird Watching 6,” outdoor sculpture/installation, Wilcox Park, Westerly, RI
“People Fence” outdoor sculpture/installation, Utica Zoo, Utica, NY
“Bird Watching 4”, outdoor sculpture/installation at Empire-Fulton Ferry State
Park, Brooklyn, NY, supported by New York State Parks Dept., New York, NY.
“Jane Ingram Allen’s Peep Show,” Old Boston Store, Genesee Street, Utica, NY
“Bird Watching - New York Mills,” outdoor sculpture installation in school garden,
New
York Mills School District, New York Mills, NY
“White Wash,” Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
“Leave Taking,” Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, TX
1997 “Clouds”, Union Station, Utica, NY
“Tubes and Shadows”, downtown storefront window installation, Harza Building,
Utica, NY
1994 “Birds on a Wire” and “Corn Rows,” outdoor sculpture installations, Hamilton
NY
1993 “High Five,” sculpture/installation in NYC subway station at 42nd Street/6th
Ave.,
Creative Stations grant award from New York City Arts for Transit.
1992 “Continuous Celebration”, indoor installation for Federal Reserve Bank
of New York,
Operations Center, E. Rutherford, NJ.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Adjunct Art instructor, College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Artist in the schools and visiting artist
Independent Curator and Workshop Instructor
Art Writer/Critic for SCULPTURE, ART CALENDAR and other art magazines
RECENT CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2003 ACCESSIBILITY 2003 – FROM THE OUTSIDE IN, Guest Curator, City and County
of
Sumter, Sumter, SC.( www.sumteraccessibility.org)
1999 ELEMENTS 2000, Co-Curator with Devorah Sperber, College Art Association
and Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY.
1996 HARVEST WORKS, Guest Curator, Gallery 53-Artworks, Cooperstown, NY.
1995 ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH, Guest Curator, Utica College, Utica, NY.
1995 THE HAMILTON CONNECTION–A BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITION OF OUTDOOR
SCULPTURE, Guest Curator, Hamilton Village Green, Hamilton, NY.
ADDITIONAL MUSEUM AND CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
1997 Juror for “Multiplism as a Feminist Strategy,” a national competition sponsored
by the Women’s Caucus for Art held at Phoenix Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY.
1995 Juror for Chapman Foundation Exhibition, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia,
NY.
1988-92 Curator for Library Gallery, State University of New York, Morrisville,
NY. Organized, selected and curated a monthly program of changing exhibitions
of contemporary art.
1986-87 Art Curator and Educator, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa. Organized
and curated monthly program of changing exhibitions of contemporary art and
educational programs in conjunction with the exhibitions.
1984-85 Art Educator and Director of Docent Program, Center for the Arts, Vero
Beach, FL. Planned and taught museum art classes and organized and taught docent
training at the arts center, supervising and recruiting docent volunteers.
1978-83 Director of Education and Art Curator, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria,
Louisiana. Organized and curated monthly program of changing exhibitions of
contemporary art including several national competitions and writing and administering
grants. Planned and administered educational programs relating to the exhibitions
for the public and school groups.
1976-77 Art Curator and Director of Education, Okefenokee Heritage Center, Waycross,
Georgia. Organized and curated monthly program of changing exhibitions of contemporary
art. Planned and administered all museum educational programs in art and crafts
relating them to the exhibitions. Duties included hiring and supervising teachers,
promotion and publicity and liason with educators and school administrators.
PUBLISHED WRITING
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Beacon, NY – a Sculpture Destination,” SCULPTURE, July-Aug.
2004, pp.
46-53.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “The Paper Sculpture Show,” on-line review, SCULPTURE (ISC
website
www.sculpture.org), July 2004.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Shifts in Meaning – A Conversation with Fred Wilson,” SCULPTURE,
May
2003, pp. 40-45.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Philadelphia, PA, Leonardo Drew,” SCULPTURE, May 2003,
pp. 80-81.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Eureka, CA – Barbara Dolan-Wilkinson and Lori Goodman,”
SCULPTURE,
April 2003, pp. 73-74.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Boston, Chen Zhen,” SCULPTURE, April 2003, pp. 76-77.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Contemporary Sculpture in Brazil: Salvador, Sao Paulo and
Rio,” SCULPTURE, January-February 2003, pp. 85-87.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Designing the Studio, ART CALENDAR, November 2002, pp.
5-7.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Turning Over a New Leaf - Residency in Japan,” TRANS ARTISTS
NEWSLETTER, December 2003, p. 5.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Mentoring – A Different Way of Artistic and Career Growth,”
ART CALENDAR, October 2002, pp. 7-8.
Allen, Jane Ingram, He Did It! Doug Kornfeld’s Public Art Commission Completed,
ART CALENDAR, December 2002, pp. 5-6.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Philadelphia – Charles LeDray,” SCULPTURE, December 2002,
pp. 76-77.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Olafar Eliasson: Putting the Viewer First,” SCULPTURE,
October 2001. (Feature article.)
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Beverly Semmes - Palpable Color,” SCULPTURE, May 2001.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Landing a Public Art Commission: Interview with Doug Kornfeld,”
ART CALENDAR, November 2001.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Arts in Education Opportunities,” ART CALENDAR,” September
2001.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “A Residency in Nepal,” ART CALENDAR,” May 2001.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “First Night Community Art Project,” ART CALENDAR, April
2001.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Grant Trends for Artists,” ART CALENDAR, October 2001.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Cornelia Parker at ICA, Boston,” SCULPTURE, July-Aug. 2000,
pp. 63-64.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Paper Art Village Project,” HAND PAPERMAKING, Summer 2000,
pp. 18-22.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Dispatch - Participatory Works: Viewers as Co-Creators,”
SCULPTURE, Jan.-Feb. 2000, pp. 73-75.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “”Marcia Widenor - OIA (Organization of Independent Artists),”
Review, SCULPTURE, November 1999, pp. 66-67.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Cecilia Vicuna and Lenor Malen at Art in General,” Review,
SCULPTURE, October 1999, pp. 75-76.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Raymond Saa Stein and ‘In My Room’ at White Columns,” Review,
SCULPTURE, October 1999, pp. 76-77.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “”Robert Irwin: Excursus: Homage to the Square,” Review,
SCULPTURE, June 1999, pp. 71-72.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Doing Outdoor Art Installations,” ART CALENDAR, June 1999,
pp. 14-15.
Allen Jane Ingram. “Installations...An Alternative to Hanging,” ART CALENDAR,
April 1999, pp. 22-24.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Artist’s Registries DO Work,” ART CALENDAR, January 1999,
pp. 16-17.
Allen, Jane Ingram. RESIDENCIES FOR ARTISTS: AN ART CALENDAR MONOGRAPH. Upper
Fairmont, MD: Art Calendar, 1998.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Dispatches: Berkshires and Upper Hudson River Valley -
Review of Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions, SCULPTURE, Jan.-Feb. 1999, pp. 78-79.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Changing Alternative Spaces - Looking to the Next Century”,
SCULPTURE, October 1998, pp. 35 -37.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Inspiration and Renewal: Residencies for Sculptors,” SCULPTURE,
February 1998, pp. 50-55.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Art Venues that Pay Artists to Exhibit,” ART CALENDAR,
January 1998, pp. 16-17.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “Artist-Organized Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions,” SCULPTURE,
September 1997, pp. 44-49.
Allen, Jane Ingram. “A Residency in the Philippines,” SCULPTURE, July/Aug. 1996,
pp. 40-42.
Allen, Jane Ingram, “Papermaking at the Duntog: Report from the Philippines,”
HAND PAPERMAKING, Summer 1996, pp, 25-28.
Allen, Jane Ingram. ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH; REPEATED FORMS BY SEVEN
ARTISTS (exhibition catalog). Utica: Edith Barrett Gallery, Utica College, 1994.
Allen, Jane Ingram. "Overcoming Problems of Large?Scale Sculpture,"
MAQUETTE, Sept.
1993.
Allen, Jane Ingram. THE HAMILTON CONNECTION: A BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY
SCULPTURE, exhibition catalog published by Village of Hamilton, New York, Bicentennial
Commission, 1995.