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Featured Works: "Modified Valentine" by Andrea Hawksley '07, "Mantis" by Brian Chan (G), "MIT Pleat Fold" by Howard Kellogg '08 Please visit OrigaMIT for current Origami Exhibit information. Contact origami-info for more details.About Mens et Manus II, original design by Brian Chan (G) Look at Past Winners or view the Photo Galleries: Photo Gallery: 2009 Photo Gallery: 2008 About the Judges
Elsa Chen graduated with a SBEE from MIT in 1989. She will always be grateful to Mr. Bob Giovannucci at Lincoln Laboratory for telling her about the origami mailing list in 1990. She learned about the Friends of the Origami Center of America (since renamed OrigamiUSA) from this e-mail list and hasn't missed an OrigamiUSA Convention since. She has taken classes from origami artists specializing in various styles of work, ranging from complex representational (e.g., Akira Yoshizawa, Michael LaFosse, Robert Lang) through geometric (e.g., Chris Palmer, Jeannine Mosely, Tomoko Fuse). She has been a contributing member of the origami fanzine, Imagiro, since 1995. More recently, she has traveled to Japan to attend conventions of the Japanese Origami Academic Society and the Nippon Origami Association. Anne LaVin (MIT SB 1985, Aeronautics and Astronautics) has been practicing origami for over 30 years, ever since being introduced to it (and loving it immediately) in elementary school. A member of OrigamiUSA since 1992, and the Japan Origami Academic Society since 1998, she regularly attends workshops and conventions in New York and, when possible, in Japan. Her origami interests span the range of the craft, in style, content and technique, from representational and sculptural to geometric and mathematical, and extend to a variety of related paper crafts, including papermaking and bookbinding. Her most recent origami activities have included the translation, from Japanese to English, of the book "Polyhedron Origami" with origami creator and author Miyuki Kawamura, and the production of origami artwork for a television advertisement for Cingular Wireless. Jason Ku '09 is a college student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been folding since the age of 5. He is pursuing a major in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Music and Vocal Performance. He is also the president of MIT's origami club, OrigaMIT. Since he began designing, he has exhibited and taught at numerous international origami conventions. He has been published in many leading magazines and numerous convention books. During the summer of 2005, Ku was invited by the Japanese Origami Academic Society to teach and exhibit in Tokyo, Japan as a guest of the Yoshino Fund. Through his broad and deep understanding of the literature of origami, Ku's work adopts features from many different styles and attempts to combine them in elegant and efficient ways for a given subject material. Past Judges
Jeannine Moseley (MIT Ph.D. 1984, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) first started doing origami as a child, over 40 years ago. She joined Origami USA in 1995 and regularly attends any origami conventions she can get to. She has designed numerous geometric original models, and is best known for her models made from business cards. In 1996 she started the Business Card Menger's Sponge Project to build a model of the fractal known as Menger's Sponge out of 66,048 recycled business cards. This is a community educational project involving hundreds of volunteers, and she expects the model to be completed in 2003. In 2002, she was chosen as one of two recipients of the Yoshino Issei Prize by the Japan Origami Academic Society, which paid for her trip to Tokyo to attend and teach at their annual convention. |
