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 Jane M. Farmer
Maryland Printmakers' Spring 2001 Members Meeting  
Guest Presenter Curator and Critic
Jane M. Farmer is an independent curator, formerly employed by the Smithsonian Institution, who has been organizing traveling exhibitions and artist exchanges for various organizations including the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Arts America Program at the United States Information Agency for twenty-five years. 

Projects include New American Paperworks, an exhibition that traveled for five years, including a tour in East Asia from 1983 - 1985 and an Inter-cultural Award presentation at the University of Maryland in 1986. Farmer was a US organizer and panelist for the International Paper Conference: Japan'83 held in Kyoto, Japan and spoke at the second such conference in Kyoto in 1995. She has extensive experience arranging international exhibitions, conferences, workshops and residencies involving East Asia, Europe and Central Europe. She is currently an organizer of PAPER ROAD/TIBET, a project to revitalize hand papermaking in Tibet. She is the President of the Crossing Over Consortium, Inc., a non-profit for international collaborations and exchange in hand papermaking, printmaking and the book arts. Farmer was the project director for Crossing Over/Changing Places, an exhibition of collaborative projects from the mid-Atlantic that toured in the United States and Europe from October 1992 - November 1997. 

In 1992 Farmer served as a juror for the International Biennial, Paper Art 4 in Düren, Germany and as a juror and consultant for the exhibition, Medium: Paper in Budapest, Hungary. In September of 1995 she was a juror for the Imadate Exhibition of Contemporary Paper Art Works in Imadate, Japan; the Tallinn Print Triennial in Tallinn, Estonia and in October, 1995 participated as a panelist in the IAPMA Congress and the International Paper Symposium in Kyoto, Japan. In addition Farmer has served as a juror for numerous regional and local exhibitions of contemporary art.