Special events and activities are offered for families at the Getty Center and Villa seasonally throughout the year. Get ready to have fun and be inspired during this origami adventure weekend at The Origami Garden on May 12th – May 13th, from 10:30 am – 2:30 pm.
Join physicist and world-renowned origami artist Robert J. Lang as he creates large, life-like paper animals and insects. Enjoy free, drop-in origami making and learn to fold paper flowers and other garden creatures. Add your creations to the eye-catching Origami Garden installation and watch it grow! Visit our website for an updated schedule of events. Complements the Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography exhibition.
Admission is free. No tickets are required. Events include the following:
Drop-in Origami Workshop
10:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Tram Arrival Plaza
Origami Demonstrations with Robert J. Lang
10:30 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.
Tram Arrival Plaza
Artist Talk with Robert J. Lang
3:00–3:30 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall
Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for over fifty years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with over 700 designs catalogued and diagrammed. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created. His work combines aspects of the Western school of mathematical origami design with the Eastern emphasis upon line and form to yield models that are at once distinctive, elegant, and challenging to fold. They have been shown in exhibitions in New York (Museum of Modern Art), Paris (Carrousel du Louvre), Salem (Peabody Essex Museum), San Diego (Mingei Museum of World Folk Art), and Kaga, Japan (Nippon Museum Of Origami), among others.
In 1992 Dr. Lang became the first Westerner ever invited to address the Nippon Origami Association’s annual meeting; he has since been an invited guest at international origami conventions around the world. He lectures widely on origami and its connections to mathematics, science, and technology, and teaches workshops on both artistic techniques and applications of folding in industrial design.
Along the way to his current career as a full-time origami artist and consultant he worked as a physicist, engineer, and R&D manager, during which time he authored or co-authored over 80 technical publications and 50 patents awarded and pending on semiconductor lasers, optics, and integrated optoelectronics.
Source: Getty