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LEYLA TORRES
Leyla Torres is an artist and a teacher who has been practicing origami for over 30 years. Since 2007, Leyla shares and teaches origami on her well-loved website OrigamiSpirit.com and YouTube channel. Leyla was invited as a special guest to the Pacific Coast Origami Convention USA (PCOC 2015) and Encuentro Internacional de Origami, México (2014). In addition, she has conducted paper-folding workshops, in-person and online classes for young and old, at international origami conventions, libraries, schools, and businesses in The United States, Europe, and South America. Learn more about Leyla's work: Art and illustration work leylatorres.com Origami work OrigamiSpirit.com |
Pre-Columbian Frog
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Ladybug
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Hot Peppers
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Penta Box
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Star Flower
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BOICE WONG
is an origami artist from Portland that currently studies in Phoenix. and is known online by his handle, OrigamiByBoice. He enjoys folding and designing models that represent or render forms such as humanoids and dragons. A goal in his folding is to trick people into thinking the fold is not just a single square. Boice also makes YouTube tutorials where he seeks to make complex topics, like learning crease patterns, much less intimidating as well as using the platform to show proper permission and crediting standards. |
BMW
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Akame
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Generic Dragon
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Samurai V3
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STACIE TAMAKI
works as a full time, miniature-origami artist in West Michigan. Her business name, Tinygami, aptly describes her delicate models and has become a bit of nickname for her as well. Her favorite sizes of paper squares to fold range from 1/2”-1.5” (1.27-3.81cm). Tamaki creates fine art mobiles of senbazuru (1000 cranes), gift items, co-authored an origami book, teaches in person and online through videos and live streaming, and has worked as a public speaker and corporate event entertainer. She shares her process of both being an artist and entrepreneur almost daily on Instagram and credits the platform as an integral part of turning her passion into her livelihood. Much to her surprise she has created a handful of models she calls her own. Her favorite, a dragonfly, is the one she’ll be teaching publicly for the first time at FOC 2020. Learn more about Stacie at tinygami.com and on Instagram at @tinygami |
Tinygami assortment
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Rabbit
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Frogs
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Tulips
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Wisteria and crane mobile
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EVAN ZODL
is a 24-year-old origami artist from New Jersey. He has been folding paper for over 15 years, and in an effort to share his passion with the world, he began making instructional origami videos on YouTube in 2008. Since that time, he has taught origami to tens of millions of people around the globe and has developed a following of over 135,000 people. Evan has also spent many years designing original origami models inspired by fractals, spirals, and recursive patterns found in nature. Learn more about Evan on his website, Instagram, and YouTube sites. |
Whirlpool
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Nova
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Flower Tessalation
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Fractal Star
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Logarithmic Spiral
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JARED NEEDLE
is an origami artist originally from Los Angeles, now residing in Portland. He specializes in the complex-representational and inside-out styles of origami and has had his work displayed in galleries and museums across the country, including the traveling exhibit "Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami." His work has been featured on House MD, Superhuman, (and the Russian version!) and commercials for Rotary International and Clear. Find Jared on Instagram @oriholic |
Corona Virus
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Bull Head
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Maple Leaf
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Maris Otter
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Octopus
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BETH JOHNSON
is an origami artist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has been folding paper for many years, and began designing her own models in 2010. She is often recognized for her expressive minimalist style, and for her explorations of tessellations as textural elements in more representational pieces. She has been a guest of honor at numerous origami conventions worldwide, and received the 2011 Florence Temko Award from Origami USA in recognition of her work. Beth divides her time between teaching, designing, exhibiting and diagramming, and also does volunteer work teaching art and origami in her community. She is currently working on publishing a book with instructions for her designs. Learn more about Beth at bethjohnsonorigami.com |
Koalas
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Fox & Mouse
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Horse
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Turtle & Mouse
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Bears
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ALI BAHMANI
is an origami artist/instructor based in Tehran who grew up as a child in Japan. He has a Bachelor degree in Mathematics and got his Master degree in Museum Studies. He has designed and published his diagrams internationally in origami publications from USA, UK, Germany, Australia, Italy and many more. He is also a passionate origami diagrammer and has collaborated and worked with Origami Artists including David Mitchell, Francesco Mancini, Alexander Kurth, and Kiumars Sharif to diagram their models. Ali is host of Origami Talk Project, a weekly live chat with origami artists where they share about their personal journey, artworks, creative process, quarantime and much more! Ali likes simplicity and appreciates simple and elegant origami models, especially geometrical ones. Most of his designs have geometric structure with certain design and aesthetic qualities in the final result. His latest series of origami designs, named "Patterns and Shadows", incorporates lights and shadows into geometrical models to produce beautiful and pleasing artworks. Teaching is one of Ali's favorite activities. He has held several origami workshops in Iranian schools and at universities and Japan for different ages and backgrounds. You can Also find Ali at his Instagram & Facebook where he posts about his origami journey and passions. |
Flower X
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Patterns And Shadows
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Ripple
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Star Within
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ROB SNYDER
is an American origami artist whose original origami designs have been published in OrigamiUSA's The Paper and The Fold, the British Origami Society (BOS) magazine, and the OrigamiUSA annual Origami Collection 2016, along with numerous books. He was an invited guest at the Origami Colombia convention November 9-11, 2019, in Cali, Colombia, and he also taught his Lion and Contemplation models through Origami USA's Origami Connect online classes. Rob has exhibited various of his origami designs at the 9th Annual Northwest Ohio Community Art Exhibition, "In, On, Of Paper Juried Exhibition, Cycle 2", and “Leafing Through History: Plants That Make Paper” at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Learn more about Rob at his website and on Instagram |
Polar Bear
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Lion
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Contemplation
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Fish
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Penguin In A Boat
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JAMES W. PEAKE
is a paper folding professional based in Oberlin, OH. James founded Foldspace Origami Studio in 2015 to serve as his home base for all things origami! James teaches students of all ages both on- and off-site, and recently shifted focus to origami videos and live-stream production. In 2017, James took over as Vice President of the online paper and book store, the Americas Origami Shop (origamishop.us), which now operates from the same facility as Foldspace Studio. Over the past decade, James has curated 15 international origami exhibitions in various galleries in the greater NE Ohio region. |
Honey
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Pop Art
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Frost
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Anthropod
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Pleated in Pink
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KATHLEEN SHERIDAN
is a Spanish teacher turned origami instructor living in St Paul, Minnesota. She taught Spanish in public and private settings, levels K-12 for 18 years. Six years ago, she swapped out her love of Spanish, replaced it with her love of origami and continued teaching. Her business name is Origami and You since she strives to bring a connection between herself, her students and origami! Just months ago, Kathleen was teaching origami at workshops, in team building sessions, at birthday parties, in after school clubs, at library programs, in private and group lessons, at Young Artists Young Authors conferences and at local art institutes Now she is doing it all online – even the birthday parties! Weekly you can find her streaming live from instagram or facebook and teaching Folding Fridays through the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC. Kathleen is in her 5th year as a Board member for Origami USA. She is a founding member, Co-Chair and Host of Origami Connect, a program offering online classes through Origami USA. It’s open to anyone around the world! Learn more about Kathleen at origamiandyou.com, Facebook and on Instagram |
Teapot based on traditional water balloon traditional cups
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Traditional Hearts
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Traditional Vase with tea light
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Traditional Lotus
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ROBBY KRAFT
has been folding origami since he was a child and is a student of many styles of origami. His work includes generative computer-aided design, origami math and theory, curved creases and 3D origami, and animals in the classical style. Robby is spending the rest of the year in Innsbruck, Austria working on origami with architects but usually lives and works in New York City. Check out more of Robby's work on Instagram @gridpaper |
Voronoi Tiling
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Crane
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Elephant
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Bird Base Transform
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Single Spiral Wave
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MARC KIRSCHENBAUM
is a leading American origami artist who has been active with the art form since the 1970's. He has developed hundreds of designs, covering a wide range of subjects. These works have appeared in over fifty books that he has either authored or contributed to. Kirschenbaum's pieces have been shown in major origami exhibitions (including the American Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian, Mingei International Museum, and Hangar-7), small and sheik SoHo shows, and even a private exhibition at the prestigious National Arts Club. He also gives back to the origami community through his volunteer efforts at OrigamiUSA, a premiere international origami organization, in both capacities as a Director and Chair of the Publications Committee. Learn more about Marc at sakuraorigami.com and on instagram @marckirschenbaum |
Bicycle
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Toucan
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Grim Reaper
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Fluffy Teddy Bear
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Butterfly
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