Acknowledgments

We wish to acknowledge Anne LaVin for her generous contribution of her elegant origami squirrel design. We thank our friends at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Education Director, Aaron Padilla; and hand paper maker / artist, Allison Roscoe, who helped to make our origami art contribution to the exhibit, “Less=More” at Spalding House such a grand success. The Kondo and Miyatake families contributed in countless ways and over many years. We must also acknowledge the inspiring works of the late Akira Yoshizawa, each skillfully infused with the spirit and the love of the artist through his talented hands. We also owe our gratitude to the late Lillian Oppenheimer, the Grandmother of Origami in the USA, whose views about teaching still resonate with hundreds of others like us who continue to share origami with youngsters of every age. We thank Elaine, Sidney and Donna Koretsky of Carriage House Paper, for helping us gain command of paper making fibers and pigments through their decades of research, publications, workshops and materials. Finally, we thank our steady and intrepid editor at Tuttle Publishing, Jon Steever, for persevering with us through so many original origami and folded art publishing productions.

Richard L. Alexander and Michael G. LaFosse, Origamido Studio