來自阿拉巴馬州的艾婕音女士為知名的美國裝置藝術家和手製紙藝術創作者，現居紐約州。一九八八至二○○一年，任教紐約州立大學莫里斯維爾分校；二○○一年起擔任位於艾爾巴尼的聖羅斯學院副教授。
　

 艾婕音女士同時也是一位傑出的藝評和創作者，經常為SCULPTURE(雕塑)雜誌以及其他藝術雜誌撰文，並擔任獨立策展人。曾在許多大學、公立學校、博物館、藝術中心教授手製紙工作坊，並於美國各地以及世界上許多國家的藝廊與美術館舉辦個展。她的作品獲得包括紐約藝術基金會、中大西洋藝術基金會、美國國家藝術基金會、以及藝術家空間等單位的獎項與補助。曾在美國擔任數個機關的駐地藝術家，並赴菲律賓、日本、尼泊爾和巴西擔任駐地藝術家。艾女士目前的作品著重於會隨時間改變並有益於環境的裝置藝術，以及有觀眾參與、運用手工和其他自然材料的裝置作品。
　

 艾婕音女士於二○○四年一月至七月，獲得傅爾布萊特研究獎助金在台灣駐地創作六個月，並與樹火紀念紙文化基金會博物館合作，運用台灣的植物纖維以及在此地收集來得其他材料，創造出受台灣文化啟發的作品；並發表「台北．城市．地圖」紙藝展。該展覽以在台灣收集的二十七種不同植物創作出的手製紙，呈現出台北地區及其附近許多地方的意象。她用手製紙拓印出市區街道上的鐵蓋的浮凸圖案(美國稱為下水道入口蓋子)，也利用在台北收集到的其他材料來表達她在此時此地的生活經驗。艾女士的藝術作品是利用再生紙及低污染的材料製作，以強調對環境的關注並鼓勵注重健康都市環境的需要。
　

 二○○四年七月起，艾婕音女士接受文化建設基金會贊助，續留台灣一年，將巡迴全國北、中、南、東及離島各地，辦理「公民美學」紙藝術推廣工作坊十二場。

個人網站www.janeingramallen.com
　

Jane Ingram Allen

Jane Ingram Allen is an American installation artist and hand papermaker. She is originally from Alabama and now living in Troy, New York. Recently Jane received a Fulbright Scholar Award for a six-months research project as an artist-in-residence in Taiwan. Her host institution is the Suho Memorial Paper Culture Foundation and Museum in Taipei. During her time in Taiwan, Jane was making paper with Taiwanese plant materials and using other materials collected local to make her works which being inspired by the culture of Taiwan. 

Jane was an art professor at the Sate University of New York in Morrisville NY from 1988 to 2001 and has been an adjunct art professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany NY since 2001. Jane is also an art critic and writer for SCULPTURE magazine and other art magazines as well as an independent curator. She has taught papermaking workshops at many universities, public schools, museums and art centers. She has had solo exhibitions of her paper artworks at galleries and museums in New York and throughout the USA and internationally. Her artworks have received many grants awards from such organizations as the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and Artists Space among others. Moreover, Jane has done outdoor installations which was using handmade paper at many public parks, sculpture gardens and in public buildings, plazas and other public spaces, as well as this, she was an artist-in-residence at several organizations in the USA, Philippines, Japan, Nepal and Brazil. Her current works focus on installations that change over time and benefit the environment and participatory installations used handmade paper and other natural materials. For more information, please visit her website at www.janeingramallen.com. 

In between January to July in 2004, Jane Ingram Allen’s creation “Taipei Site Maps”, which was an extension work of the Fulbright “Art in Residency” Award, was projected at the Suho Memorial Paper Culture Foundation and Museum in Taipei. “Taipei site Maps” include representations of many different places in and around Taipei on the handmade papers which she made from 27 different plants that collected in Taiwan. She dried some of the handmade paper on metal covers with embossed patterns (called ‘manhole covers’ in the US) that are found in the city streets. She also used other materials, which collected in Taipei, to reflect her experiences of living at the time in Taiwan. Mrs. Allen’s artworks used recycled papers and low-polluting materials to emphasize environmental concerns, and to encourage focusing on the needs of a clean and healthy urban environment.