* BROADCAST-- This class will be presented to students in a classroom at the convention site and simultaneously broadcast to an off-site audience on the web. Asian art historian Meher McArthur will discuss the importance of contemporary origami as an art form worthy of museum exhibitions, collection and art historical attention. Meher has curated two major origami exhibits, Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami (currently touring in the US) and the past exhibit Folding Paper: The infinite Possibilities of Origami. Meher is an author, educator and the former curator of East Asian Art at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California. This class is also being offered to the public as part of Origami Symposia in Math, Art and Education in Los Angeles (https://origamiusa.org/pcoc_2017_symposia)