Jane Ingram Allen is a sculptor/installation artist using handmade paper for indoor and outdoor artworks with an environmental focus. Her artworks are site-specific installations that are inspired by nature and created from materials collected in a particular place and time. Many of her works change over time and are focused on environmental issues. She makes collaborative works and community art projects that involve viewer participation and integrate the process with nature as a partner.

Allen has been an art teacher and professor of art for many years. She was an art instructor at the State University of New York in Morrisville and an adjunct art professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. She is also an art critic and writer for SCULPTURE magazine and other art magazines as well as an independent curator. In 2004, she received a Fulbright Scholar Award for a six-month research project in Taiwan on making paper by hand. Her Fulbright grant was extended through July 2005 with sponsorship by the Taiwan Council for Cultural Affairs/National Endowment for Culture and Art. She was born in Delta, Alabama, and lives and works in Santa Rosa, California.

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