Origami USA

Origami is alive and well in America. Thanks to the dedication of Lillian Oppenheimer, founder of The Origami Center of America, for over 40 years there has been a place to share origami experiences and purchase origami supplies. OrigamiUSA, formerly The Friends of The Origami Center of America, is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, educational and cultural arts organization which is dedicated to the sharing of paperfolding in America and around the world. There are over 1600 members in 49 states and 19 countries and there are community origami groups in cities all over the United States and Canada. OrigamiUSA is headquartered autonomously in New York City's American Museum of Natural History through the generosity of the Museum Trustees. It is staffed primarily by volunteers and maintains the largest origami library in the world, as well as hundreds of diagrams of unpublished models. OrigamiUSA holds classes, workshops, an annual convention in NYC and a west coast convention in odd-numbered years. It publishes a print magazine (The Paper), an online magazine (The Fold) and annually, The OrigamiUSA Collection (a compilation of diagrams of over 50 original models), and maintains a lending library which is available to OrigamiUSA members. OrigamiUSA is an excellent source for origami books and supplies. Its on-line supply center, The Origami Source, sells a tremendous variety of origami books, papers, and videos.