Online Classes

Back before the days of streaming entertainment, televisions had selection dials and even external antennae to pick up their signal. This origami Television recalls this classic style. There are some tiny folds to make these details, giving this an "intermediate" level designation. Diagrams for this can be found in the book Origami Fun and Games:
https://origamiusa.org/catalog/products/origami-fun-and-games

I am an artist and taught art for 38 years in the public schools. I still do an occasional workshop for the Bruce museum. Neon water colors I discovered by accident, since I already knew about neon colored pencils. Super granulation water colors and water color powder I have only learned about in the past few months. They are just ways of playing with the paint, experimenting and letting go of some control. —unpredictable and free and fun.

Class attendees will learn about and have a chance to try paper decorating techniques using Water Color Powder, Neon Water Color, and Super Granulation Water Colors.

This is a lovely modular flower and vase created by Mariko Kubo. I will teach it in memory of Susan Wettling. Susan loved Mariko Kubo's origami designs and took a class from her during a trip to Japan. I learned this model from Susan and would like to share in memory of her friendship.

The Museo del Origami is a small-format museum located in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. It opened in January 2020 and except for the months that it was closed due to the pandemic, the museum remained open and has already received more than 12,000 visitors from all over the world. I have the privilege of being at the front desk six days a week attending visitors to the museum and customers to the attached gift shop, and the experience has been rich and entertaining. In this lecture, I am going to tell you about the type of visitors that usually come to the museum, the questions they pose (some really funny or amazing) and the strategy that I use to make sure that every one will leave the museum knowing at least the most basic concepts about paperfolding… a task that is not as easy as it seems to be, especially when people visit museums “through the lens of a cellphone”.

Humanoid Origami is one of the hardest forms to shape well. Most of the time, they end up looking stiff and static. This class will show the method I have been using to practice tons of various poses and will discuss what techniques can be done to make a pose more dynamic. Folding will create the base structure, but the posing will rely heavily on wet-folding; a technique used commonly for all complex-super complex humanoid origami designs.

Throughout this Whale’s folding sequence, the model is surprisingly flat. It is only in the final step where you can expand the folds into its cartoonish full-bodied form. This model has a "high intermediate" level designation. Diagrams for this can be found in the book Origami by the Sea:
https://origamiusa.org/catalog/products/origami-sea