Origami and the Utah Arts Festival
Thursday, June 18, 2009
With one week to go before the 2009 Utah Arts Festival opens on Library and Washington Squares, The Leonardo is hard at work creating an art installation for a brief exhibit inside the building. If you've been following our tweets of late or our Facebook fan page (and, please do!), you may have noticed an appeal for volunteers to help us fold thousands of pieces of origami.
Wednesday night's folding party, with a small wall sample in left foreground
Why origami? Because we found this beautiful wall created by Ohio State University architecture students and wanted to recreate it (with a few adjustments) to teach visitors about reusing, recycling, and some other core Leo concepts. Plus, their wall is undeniably cool and eye-catching!
To pass the time (and re-use a piece that didn't quite turn out), a volunteer came up with a creative cup holder for her water cooler cone.
While ours won't be mimicking the consistency and uniformity of the OSU wall, we are pulling recycled paper from local businesses and schools to reuse resources that would have ended up in the trash bin otherwise. The resulting patchwork wall will be a product of the community that contributed the paper, hours and fingers to fold.
The finished bags from Wednesday night's session are but a fraction of what we'll eventually need! If you'd like to help us, you can find the folding instructions here. Feel free to stop by our offices for a quick demo if you get stuck, or come to one of folding parties -- tonight and Saturday we'll be folding as quickly as we can!
So, please stop by and help us add to our star-box stash:
- Thursday (tonight!), from 4 to 8 p.m.
- Saturday, June 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Both folding parties are at our administrative offices at 120 S. Main Street in Salt Lake City. As an added bonus, we're giving volunteers the chance to win free tickets to the Utah Arts Festival. (Last night, three lucky volunteers won two tickets each to the festival -- thanks volunteers!)
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