Fifty years after designing and printing her first political poster, Jane Norling continues making visual art to illuminate and elevate the human condition.

Jane’s guide is the ongoing collective push for equal rights for all people. Her posters and murals have advocated for strong communities practicing fair inclusion and economic justice, broad education, vibrant cultural life, people-based health practices, spiritual understanding, real public spaces, environmental preservation, in beauty and dignity.

Love of the natural world–and observation of its human imprint–powers Jane’s landscape and abstract paintings. Alameda County Water, her 2016 Alameda County commission– a six-part ceramic-print glass installation in an Oakland CA social services building–brings together California’s coastal landscape with the interior workplace environment of social services provision, engaging clients, staff and public with nurturing artwork.

Jane’s posters are featured in the traveling exhibition Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination, and in Get with the Action: Political Posters from the 1960s to Now at SFMOMA, winter 2018. She is a contributing artist for the 2018 Justseeds Poor People’s Campaign Portfolio.

Jane Norling lives and works in San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. She balances painting/print commentary on states of collapse with immersion in the ever-transcendent power of people to move forward.