Project Archives

Here are some of the public and community-based art projects Karen has worked on....

Hearts Across the Valley

See more at www.HeartsAcrossTheValley.com....

Tree Heart Art — individally created hearts, with inspirational quotations about love, compassion, friendship, and kindness, and "We Love You" in many languages — on thirty-five trees on Calistoga's Lincoln Avenue in 2017. This was a community-based project, created and installed with the assistance of many people.

Part of Karen's mission to spread love, kindness, and compassion through the power of art, Hearts Across The Valley has so far taken shape in several installations in 2017, with more planned for the future.

You could see Tree Heart Art on Lincoln Avenue, the main street of Calistoga, California, created and put up with the help of many volunteers and contributors, and with the support of the City of Calistoga and the Calistoga Art Center. Karen is grateful for their backing, participation, and encouragement!

Blossom Heart Garlands, A Garden of Hearts, and Big Hearts in Many Languages — three art installations created by Karen Lynn Ingalls; Kari Martin of the St. Helena Boys and Girls Club; Laura Condylis, music teacher at SHES; the students of St. Helena Elementary School; and wonderful volunteers.

At St. Helena Elementary School, you could see three Heart Art projects created in collaboration with the SHES Music Program and its spring concerts, with music teacher Laura Condylis, and the St. Helena Boys and Girls Club, and Art Director Kari Martin. Karen very much appreciates them, SHES principal Tanya Pearson, the teachers who helped, and all the students of SHES and the Boys and Girls Club who participated!

Heart Art thank-yous in the window of the Thai Kitchen • Karen Lynn Ingalls

Heart Art thank-you at Stix and Stones Gallery • Karen Lynn Ingalls

After Calistogans came home from evacuation, because of the Tubbs wildfire in October 2017, Karen created individual heart art thanking first responders, and delivered them to local businesses downtown to display in their windows.

You can see — and learn — more about Hearts Across the Valley at: www.HeartsAcrossTheValley.com.

Peanuts on Parade

Peanuts on Parade was a several-year project in Santa Rosa, California, co-sponsored by the City of Santa Rosa and the Charles M. Schulz Museum, based on and celebrating the much-beloved Peanuts comic strip characters by artist Charles M. Schulz. Begun in St. Paul, Minnesota, Charles Schulz's home town, where a different statue was unveiled for each of five years, the show then moved to Santa Rosa, where Schulz lived and had his studio.

Downtown Charlie Brown • 2005, Karen Lynn Ingalls

It's Your Town, Charlie Brown!
2005

Karen's Downtown Charlie Brown, created for Santa Rosa's Downtown Association, and shown for a long time at Courthouse Square, can be seen currently at the Central Santa Rosa Library, at 211 E Street in Santa Rosa, California. In 2017, he was named a national Literary Landmark honoring Charles M. Schulz, in a special ceremony, marked with a plaque of recognition.

Woodstock's Summer of Love • 2006, Karen Lynn Ingalls

The Summer of Woodstock
2006

Karen created both Woodstock's Summer of Love and You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog (Woodstock as Elvis) in 2006. Her Elvis, created for Canine Companions (where he can still be seen), was one of two statues that year made into a gift figurine. He became a best-seller!

Dr. Joe Cool • 2007, Karen Lynn Ingalls

Snoopy's Joe Cool Summer
2007

In 2007, Karen created Dr. Joe Cool and Original Joe Cool. Dr. Joe, created for Northern California Medical Associates, was based on the winning design from a contest held by employees. He can be seen currently outside their offices at 3536 Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa. Original Joe was exactly that — Charles M. Schulz's original Joe Cool.

Flying Fish of the Napa River

The Flying Fish of the Napa River were metal statues of fish that moved with the wind, created by Paul d'Antilio as a fundraiser for the Calistoga Art Center in the spring of 2005. As one of the artists chosen to create a fish of her own design, Karen was inspired by a marvelous series of skies and a spectacular sunset to paint Cloud Swimmer.

Cloud Swimmer (Blue Sky side) • 2005 Karen Lynn Ingalls

Cloud Swimmer (Sunset Sky side) • 2005 Karen Lynn Ingalls

Endangered Landscapes

Endangered Landscapes, an art show sponsored by the Cultural Council for Monterey County's Art in Public Places Program, was dedicated to the beauty of north Monterey County land threatened by development. It focused particularly on the Hudson's Landing area at the northern end of Elkhorn Slough, which was later declared a national treasure by the Audubon Society. Exhibited in 2000 throughout the exhibition spaces of the Monterey County Courthouse in Salinas, California, it was followed in 2001 by Endangered Landscapes II, an exhibition of paintings by Bill Fenwick, Barbara Edell Poole, and Karen Lynn Ingalls, at the Monterey Conference Center's Alvarado Gallery; and Endangered Landscapes III in 2002, at An Evening with Barry Lopez in Monterey, California.

The show began in 1998 as a painting project of Bill Fenwick, Barbara Edell Poole, Karen Lynn Ingalls, and Gloria Shaw, documented by photographer Kyle Dawn Hills. They were joined by artists Karen Kvenvold Bailey, Starr Davis, Bob Freimark, Pilar Marien, John McWilliams, Barbara Norton, Tarah Nutter, and Andy Williams.