Jane Norling

In the 1970s, Norling worked as a founding member with the Haight Ashbury muralists. as well as the 1984 mural “Darles Armas Y Tambien Ensenarles a Leer” (Give Them Arms and Also Teach Them to Read), initially painted as part of the Balmy Alley Mural Project. This mural, moved from its original location but still visible from the street, depicts the Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign, launched in 1980 by the Sandinista government, reduce illiteracy and is based in part on images in photographs by Margaret Randall. The former is well documented in the film Peoples Wall, produced by the Haight Ashbury Film Collective. == Peoples Press ==

In 1972, as a member of Peoples Press, who published the North American edition of Cuban international magazine “Tricontinental," Norling travelled to Cuba to learn from and work with the OSPAAAL design department where she designed a poster applicable to the people of Puerto Rico; this poster was printed by OSPAAAL and has become one of her most recognized social justice designs. The design on this poster was taken from one of Norling's murals, "Sistersongs of Liberation". == Graphic design ==

Norling has illustrated and designed logos and print materials that include California Department of Public Health worker safety projects, including pamphlets for the California Department of Industrial Relations and OLPPP. This includes the 1980 screenprint poster "La Leche Materna es la Mejor (Breast Milk is the Best)" for a Food & Nutrition Services campaign in Santa Cruz, California. This poster was reproduced by the Syracuse Cultural Workers in 1986, and was included in an exhibition on women's rights at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Fall 2016. == Other cultural design ==

Norling designed cover art for the 1974 Red Star Singers album, The Force of Life, released by Paredon Records (now operated as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), as well as a poster for San Francisco Mime Troupe plays including The Mother (1973), False Promises/Nos Engañaron (1976), Hotel Universe (1977), a play based on the International Hotel struggle, and Coast City Confidential (1995). Her political poster art was included in the 2003 exhibition One Struggle, Two Communities: Late 20th Century Political Posters of Havana, Cuba and the San Francisco Bay Area at the Berkeley Art Center. == Paintings and public art installation ==

Norling's more recent work places greater focus on studio painting, specifically abstract landscapes inspired by visits to National Parks and other outdoor areas of expansive beauty. It has been included in exhibitions curated by Slate Contemporary Gallery in Oakland, CA, at Berkeley Art Center's 2013 unjuried member exhibition, Wonder, and the 2014 Feature exhibition. Her art has also been featured on the cover of Margaret Randall's 2009 publication, Their Backs to the Sea. Norling's work was commissed to be printed on glass for a major art installation at the Almeda County social services building at 1111 Jackson Street in Oakland, California; and features water-based imagery on glass on six separate sections within the building. ==References==