Jane Ingram Allen
Curatorial Projects

Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival,  Guandu Nature Park, Taipei, Taiwan
May 6, 2006 - Oct. 31, 2006

Jane initiated an outdoor sculpture festival in Taiwan focused on environmental art with natural materials. She curated the first International Outdoor Sculpture Festival at Guandu Nature Park, an urban nature park near Taipei City.  The exhibition opened on Saturday, May 6, with an opening ceremony at 2 PM.  The exhibition included site specific sculpture installations by 6 international artists:

Jane Ingram Allen - USA/living in Taiwan

Pamela G. Ayres - USA

Josho - USA

Rikuo Ueda - Japan

Yumiko Yamazaki - Japan

Wen-Fu Yu - Taiwan. 

The invited artists worked at the nature park in Taipei from April 28 - May 7, 2005, and public participation activities with the artists took place 10AM - 4PM, May 6 and May 7.  The artists used natural materials and made works with an environmental focus to reflect the mission of the Nature Park. For more information about the 2006 Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival, click here. 

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"Paper Possibilities - Contemporary Paper Works by Taiwanese and Chinese Artists"

McQuade Library Gallery, Merrimack College, N. Andover, MA, October 1-30, 2004
Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY, May 25 - July 9, 2005.

Participating Artists

"Paper Possibilities" contained 1 - 3 works by each of these artists. The photograph on the left shows the work of Huang, LiRung of Taipei, Taiwan. It is a digital photograph with a paper sculpture and is titled "The Existence of a Pear." The work on the left is by artist Lee, Hui-Fang of Taichung County, Taiwan. It is an installation with handmade papers and a mailing carton. It is titled "Made in Taiwan - Taiwan in the Making." Curator Cathy McLaurin installed the works for this exhibition at Merrimack College Gallery while Jane is continuing her work in Taiwan.

Jane organized and curated this exhibition that will be shown at institutions in the USA during 2004-05. As part of the work Jane has done for her Fulbright grant in Taiwan, Jane has made contact with many contemporary artists in Taiwan and mainland China and looked at their works to exchange ideas and discuss processes. During her first six months in Taiwan she has lived in Taipei and traveled to Tainan, Taichung and other parts of Taiwan as well as to Shanghai and Hong Kong.

This exhibition is an opportunity for Taiwanese and Chinese artists to show their works in the USA, and for people in the USA to see contemporary works by artists from a different culture. This exhibition features works using paper as a material and increases awareness of the possibilities for creating innovative art with paper materials. The artists Jane selected for the exhibition reflect concerns with contemporary issues as well as the use of paper material and represent a variety of media, techniques and approaches. Works in the exhibition include such techniques as paper cutting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, installation art, papermaking and mixed media.

Accessibility 2003: From the Outside In," Sumter, South Carolina
Sept. 27 - Nov. 1. 2003

Jane was the guest curator and artist-in-residence for Sumter, South Carolina's 5th annual exhibition of site-specific installation art held in downtown Sumter at indoor and outdoor sites. Jane worked s an artist in residence in Sumter for three weeks and was also the curator for this international exhibition of public art in indoor and outdoor sites along Main Street of Sumter. The exhibition is an annual event, and this was the first time that an outside curator had been invited and also the first time that the curator chose artists from outside the region. Jane's idea was to have outsiders look at the community from a different perspective and involve local people in re-examining their own town and discovering its uniqueness and helping to revitalize the community.

Jane selected 9 other artists to join her in Sumter to create site specific installations. Two artists were from Japan, one from South Korea, one from Canada and one from Israel with the others from CA, NM, KY, and New York. The artists worked in Sumter for several weeks prior to the opening of the exhibition on Sept. 27. Each artist had a local partner in Sumter who acted as host and guide and helped the artists to create their public art installations along Main Street in Sumter. For more information visit the website at www.sumteraccessibility.org

For more information about Jane's other curatorial projects, see her resume. Click here.

(updated on April 5, 2007 )

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