Origami is
the international art of taking single sheets of paper and folding them without
the aid of scissors or paste to create something wonderful. Students will fold several models and
will get to see models designed by creators from all over the world.
Martha
Landy has been a professional paperfolder for over 40 years. She has
contributed to a variety of origami exhibits and taught at many international
Origami conventions. She has contributed to holiday trees in the American
Museum of Natural History, the Dallas Museum of Natural History, the
Smithsonian Institution's Trees of Christmas and Japan Airlines headquarters in
New York City. Among the awards that she has received are the 2011
Origami USA Board Member Recognition Award, the 2006 Ranana Benjamin Origami
Teaching Award and the 1986 Friends of the Origami Center of America
Recognition Award. A contributor to two origami dinosaur books, Martha
Landy was a guest artist at Field Station Dinosaurs in 2014 and 2015. She teaches origami classes and has included
her students’ work on the Community Holiday Tree at the Barron Arts Center in
Woodbridge NJ.
This program is free and open to
all! This event is a part of our Summer Reading Programming - A Universe of
Stories!