In Deep Water is a collaborative art project focused on water and our current environmental crisis. Two artists, one a printmaker (Jami Taback, Beach Lake, PA) and one a papermaker (Jane Ingram Allen, Northern California), working together since August 2021, have produced a large scale collaborative mixed-media art installation about our current climate change crisis with a focus on water, the most essential requirement for life.
Coffee and Conversation with Jami Taback: Saturday, June 28th, 3pm.
Opening reception: Saturday, June 28th, 2025, 4-6pm.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jane Ingram Allen, originally from Alabama, lived in Taiwan from 2004-2012 and moved back to the USA in August 2012, settling in Santa Rosa, CA. She continues her career as an international artist using sustainable materials and collaborative processes to raise public awareness about environmental issues. In January 2004 she first went to Taiwan as a Fulbright Scholar to do her hand papermaking art with Taiwan’s natural materials. She received a second Fulbright grant with sponsorship by Taiwan’s National Endowment for Culture and Art, and completed her “Made in Taiwan” project in July 2005. After the Fulbright grants, Jane worked as an independent artist with many organizations in Taiwan and other countries and initiated several environmental sculpture projects in Taiwan. Jane is also a former university art professor and experienced curator and arts writer. She has received awards for artist in residencies in the USA, Philippines, Japan, Nepal, Brazil, China, Tanzania, Taiwan, Turkey and Indonesia. She completed site specific sculpture installation projects with handmade paper and seeds in 2020 and 2021 in Sacramento, CA, Cloverdale, Oregon and Steckborn, Switzerland, and had exhibitions of her work in Australia, Japan, Switzerland, and the USA.
Jami Taback Award winning interdisciplinary artist whose work involves printmaking, book arts, and installation. Believing artists are messengers, projects address and bring awareness of social justice and the global water crisis. Recently the artist’s work was awarded the Dr. Les Wyatt Purchase Award at the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University, Currently, her work is on exhibit at the Hunterdon Art Museum. She is the recipient of the Creative California Art Award 2024. Her work is represented in many public and private collections including, more recently an installation at Live Forever Foundation, Taiwan, Rowan University School for the Earth & Environment, Discovery Hall, N.J. and The Center for Earth & Environment at Nevada Museum of Art, Tides Converge Gallery at the Presidio, S.F., CA. Past President of the California Society of Printmakers. The artist has been the recipient of a California for the Arts Covid-19 Relief Grant, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY, and a 2023 Puffin Foundation Grant and is represented by Annex Galleries, CA.
