Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, Kansas

Ladies Night – Holiday Origami Folding (Full)

November 19, 2009

Holiday-inspired origami will be the focus of an upcoming Ladies Night workshop at Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. The event will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19.

Kathrine Schlageck, senior educator at the Beach Museum of Art, will teach folding basics and the museum will provide a wide variety of origami paper including patterns, colors and metallics. Participants will learn how to create seasonal origami such as tree ornaments, gift tags and napkins.

“One interesting aspect of origami is that some of the first folded paper pieces in Japan were intended as gifts,” Schlageck said. “The Samurai would exchange gifts known as noshi-paper folded with a strip of dried fish or meat. It was considered a good luck token.”

The workshop is based on the Beach Museum’s current exhibition “Robert J. Lang: Insect Origami.”

At the conclusion of Ladies Night, take-home instruction booklets will be given out so that participants may continue their work after the night is over. Patterns will include stars, pine trees and bells.

This workshop is now full