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Tiger

Daria Rudakovskay, Vitaliy Kumratov, Temirlan Kumratov

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Image of Summer

Inna Trotsenko (Krasnodar), Natalia Krasnova (Moscow), Mary Romanova (St.Petersburg)

Jungle

Victor Morozov (Moscow), Misha Ananiev (Moscow), Alexey Nikiforov (Moscow)

Sea Life

Hairetdinov Salavat (Kazan), Zhdanov Vladislav (Kazan), Timerhanov Nail (Kazan), Sabirov Rinat (Kazan), Nurutdinov Nicolay (Kazan), Faizrahmanov Timur (Kazan), Tuktarov Marat (Kazan), Zakirov Ildar (Kazan)

Kabardinka, The Black sea coast of Russia

Kotenkova Evgeny (Kazan), Misha Ananiev (Moscow), Aliev Samir (Moscow), Sinchugov Alex (Naberezhnie Chelny)

Airport

Kurmanova Dzhamilya, Maeva Roza, Maksimenko Stas, Brilin Andrey, Nugertaev Ruslan, Maltsev Jury

Hiroshima
Sunny world - Yes ! Yes! Yes!
Atomic tragedy - No ! No! No!

Mostovschikov Dmitri, Seraya Ekaterina, Agata Kachkanyan

Yenisseisk motive

Ivan Tushev, Maxim Tushev, Roman Fedorenko

Tiger

Daria Rudakovskay, Vitaliy Kumratov, Temirlan Kumratov

Shark

Alexandra Cigankova, Katia Cigankova, Kseniy Mordvinova

Hina Mazuri

Osim Rizaev, Yulia Krivosheina, Nastia Rasputkina

They wish to live too

Vasia Lasarchev, Nastia Pavlova, Dasha Balabanova, Vilena Zainylina, Varia Filinckova, Vlada Meslovsckai, Macksim Taleckov, Nikita Drozdethkiy, Egor Temnick, Galia Dyrneva, Alena Poliackova

Our City

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Here you can find the people responsible for choosing the Artwork of 2006.

	Tong Cheong Ming, Brazil
	Tong Cheong Ming, chinese descendent, awoke for Origami already in his childhood. Self-taught folder, not only comes studying Origami in the artistic and pleasant direction as also mathematician, therefore he focuses on Origami as science. Founder and creator of OrigamiRIO - Group of Studies and Research of Origami in Rio De Janeiro State -, located in the Cultural and Informative Center of the General Consulate of Japan. He created some stories for children to be counted together with the foldings (origami storyteller). Illustrated and diagramed an origami book (ISBN 8573933747), developed a voluntary work in the Nucleus of Child Activity, the project "Folding, Singing and Playing with paper", promoted by the Service of Applied Psychology to Child in the parks of the city. Coordinated origami exhibitions ("KAMI Exhibition"), origami workshops (Origami For All), origami in educational projects (Japanese Legends in Origami) and lectures about the applications of origami. Participated in Educational TV program (TVE - Sem Censura), interview in local TV (RJ TV - Globo), TV Bandeirantes and UTV (cable TV - Programa Mosaico) and radio program. Worked for 23 years in a Brazilian Oil Company as petroleum chemistry technician, now is retired. The Host of the Origami Peace Tree Brazil 2006 festival in Rio de Janeiro.
	Gus Adi Gunawan Go, China
	Guspath Go is my name nick name actually. I live in Hong Kong and I was a member of Hong Kong origami society for the past 3 years. I began folding at the age of 18 and I am currently 23 years old. I began creating my personal models around 3 years ago and have been creating mostly fantasy model ever since. I am a Food and Nutritonal Sciences graduate from the University of Hong Kong and I am currently doing my postgraduate degree.
	Jose Tomas Buitrago, Colombia
	Folder since his childhood, but in the early 90s he began to be more enthusiastic. Most of his creations have been published in conventions booklets (USA, England, Spain, Japan, Germany, Colombia, Chile and others) and in two books. He has been in several Origami USA conventions and in the last Charlotte Origami Festival in 2002. He is a permanent participant in the Origami Peace Tree. Founder and former board member of the Colombian Origami Asociation ACO. He organises every month of November the annual Colombian Convention, in Cali. He is the moral father of some origami groups in Colombia and Latinamerica. He has participated in many exhibitions in Colombia and overseas and he teaches origami just for fun and to spread the paper folding activity abroad. When he is not folding, he is an assistant engineering teacher on an university. Other of his pasttimes are philately (the topic is origami on stamps) and genealogy.
	Tomoko Fuse, Japan
	Tomoko Fuse has established herself as the "queen" of unit origami. In this origami style, many identical units are folded, then connected to form an almost infinite variety of geometric constructions, solids, or boxes. Internationally known for her many books describing her own creations, she has travelled to many countries to attend meetings of origami enthusiasts, exhibitions and origami events of all kinds. She is a fine teacher of her origami work and ideas. She lives with her husband, Taro, a respected woodblock printmaker and etcher, in a hillside village, in rural Nagano prefecture, Japan. 1951 Born in Nigata Prefecture Japan First learned origami while in hospital as a child 1970 Studied for 2 1/2 years with origami master Toyoaki Kawai 1981 First origami book published 1983 First unit origami book published. 60 books now published, plus overseas editions (to Sept 2005). 1987 First visit overseas to Padua, Italy for La Luna di Carta exhibition 1989 Sponsored visit to England, Germany, Holland, Bulgaria, Poland 1990 Sponsored visit to New York 1991 Sponsored visit to Paris, Germany, Spain 1992 Individual exhibition Tokyo 1993 Joint exhibition with Ikebana Tokyo 1994 Sponsored visit to Germany (Japan Club) 1998 Guest at South East Origami Festival, Charlotte USA 1998 Exhibitor Paris Origami, Carrousel du Louvre 1999 Sponsored visit to Canada 2000 Guest at South East Origami Festival, Charlotte USA 2002 Guest at South East Origami Festival, Charlotte USA 2003 Sponsored visit to Santiago de Compostela, Spain Sponsored visit to San Diego, California Exhibitor Origami Masterworks exhibition 2004 Sponsored visits to Israel: guest IOC convention, Dead Sea; individual exhibition Tel Aviv. Germany: individual exhibition Unit and Spiral at Bauhaus, Dessau England: guest BOS convention Bristol 2005 Sponsored visit to Salzburg for Masters of Origami exhibition, Hangar 7
	Grzegorz Bubnial, Poland
	Grzegorz Bubniak - graduated from Cracow University of Technology in departament of Electric and Computer Engineering and currently is working as an Electrical Cad Designer. As he says Origami became his biggest passion. For him the most important in Origami is not the difficultiness of folded things but ordinary beauty. Details are also what he pays great attention to. He is one of the founders of Polish Origami Association and a member of its management, more precisely the member of the Review Comission. He is equally one of the editors of POA's webpage, where the gallery of his works has been set up. He also maintains his personal website at http://www.gregorigami.art.pl/
	Valentina Dyogteva, Russia
	I'm a mother of 3 children and grandmother of 5 grandchildren. In Ozyorsk in honour of the 60th birthday of our town I organized "Origami art festival" which was held from November 9, 2005 till February 15, 2006. I also organized the 4th annual exhibition of origamists from the age of 4 till 85. About 500 people took part in it (19 organizations: kindergartens, schools, disabled children and grown-ups, "Magic pattern" club with their collections "Clothes of the future made in Origami technique", chorus and dance groups). Before it I took part in the International project "Origami – the tree of peace", organized by the Levashov’s family from Novorossiysk in 2001. We are thankful to this family for the organized and holding of this festival. I organized a great number of consultations and seminars for parents, children and teachers. They were held in Ozyorsk and in some towns of the Chelyabinsk region, where pupils showed the performance "Origami and fairy-tales". I’m a teacher of art. I worked with the children from 3 to 18 at kindergartens, schools, boarding schools. If to compare the results of all the exhibitions I took part in I should say that quality and the number of exhibit considerably increased. Origami on the cloth and paper plating were introduced for the first time. Nowadays we have a lot of projects to attract children and grown-ups in the world of Origami.
	Fernando Gilgado Gomez, Spain
	Hello friends, my name is Fernando Gilgado Gomez and I am going to tell you my incidents in the Origami World. Since childhood I was interested in doing things with my hands, and I had sometimes tried folding paper, but it was not until 1994 that I contacted the group of Madrid of the Spanish Association of PapiroflÊxia. I discovered the incredible world of the paperfolding, wich ranges from simple toys for children to authentic artworks.Step by step I began to fold models by all the Origami Masters of the world, more and more complicated, until one day I invented my first model. It was kind of a hen I felt quite proud of. Nevertheless my favorite models are monsters and dinosaurs, so all my efforts were focused on creating this kind of models. In 1997 I published my first book, "Dinosaurios de Papel". It was a rough handmade book but it gave my models the chance to be known. It was also the book I carried to my first trip to an international congress in France, together with AnÎbal Voyer. It was an unforgettable experience, where I met lovely people which in spite of the distance share the same enthusiasm in folding paper. In 1998, after many hours in front of my new computer, I published a second book, this time dedicated to the monster subject. Thanks to it, people began to know me and I started friendly relationships by letter with people from all over the world (Australia included!). That same year and thanks to Dino Andreozzi's invitation, I had the chance to visit Sweden and at the first congress of this association. In 1999, moved by my interest in origami and its possibilities, I began to teach origami to children, through the AEP. Teaching origami to small children is a very stimulating experience although high doses of patience are required. That year I also attended the congress of the French association of Origami again, thanks to Claudine Pisasale's invitation. In the year 2000 I attended as a guest to the 12? congress of the Origami Deutshland in Hohenwart, where I met great international origami masters and many German peopleThis year, together with great folders like Anibal Voyer, I published my first book with an Editorial: "Fantasias de Papel". In the 2001 I returned to the dinosaur subject and published another dinosaur book "El Gran Libro de los Dinosaurios de Papel" where I made a review to the Jurassic fauna. In the year 2002 I was lucky to be invited to the congress of the M.F.F.P. in France and to begin to collaborate with Ediciones Tutor in origami topics. Fruits of this collaboration are a new edition of my books of dinosaurs, as long as translations and even a DVD on origami. Nowadays I have pubished two new books, "Navidad de Papiroflexia" and "Papiroflexia MÂgica", I hope you like it. Well, this is a broad outline of my experiences with origami. I hope you'll realize that a simple piece of paper is not only a passtime, but can also give you wonderful experiences and make you know tons of wonderful people all over the world.
	Iryna Lavryk, Ukraine
	Irina is one of the founders of the Kyiv Origami Club and one of organizers of the first Origami exhibition in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. She takes part in several international Origami exhibitions.
	David Brill, United Kingdom
	Born in Bramhall, Cheshire, north west England, on 6 July 1948, I first began to fold paper as a child. I quickly found that in origami, extraordinary results could be achieved with a simple sheet of paper. I was attracted then, as a child, because to get started I didn't need a large number of tools or equipment. This attraction still holds good today. During the early 70's, I worked away from home, spending evenings in hotels alone. It was then that I rediscovered my childhood interest of origami. I believe that the inherent restrictions of the square of paper and the unwritten rules of origami (in essence, not to cut, not to glue, not to decorate) encourage the origami artist to overcome seemingly impossible technical constraints. I like to draw parallels between origami and music, climbing mountains and cigarette advertising (!) In all these areas, the restrictions faced by man have stimulated extraordinary solutions. In short, restriction yields richness. Even after decades of folding paper, I am still intrigued by the endless possibilities available to the origami artist. I gain immense pleasure from seeing and discovering new interpretations of over-familiar subjects and techniques. Unexpected movements in the paper during the folding intrigue me, and I am attracted by the warmth and tactile quality of this material. Respect for this fragile medium is the key to sensitive finished results. My aims and principles in origami are: To achieve elegance in the folding method To employ an economical use of paper To obtain good form and volume by design, not by excessive thicknesses and waste. To follow original ideas rather than traditional origami bases and geometry To find a new viewpoint on commonplace subjects To convey life and movement in a living subject I have found that lessons learned in one activity, or indeed in life, frequently give benefit elsewhere. Thus my experiences as a painter have helped my origami work, and vice-versa. In painting, as in origami, I believe honesty to the medium is paramount: the finished painting must look like paint, and the completed origami design must show delight in the qualities of the paper and the texture of the folds. Chronology: First learned origami (flapping bird) from Rupert Bear annual 1954 Acquired first origami book (Origami 1 by Robert Harbin) 1971 Corresponded with folders in Japan 1973 Joined British Origami Society (BOS) 1974 Met other British creators and began to create own origami designs 1975 Elected to BOS council 1975 Work displayed at NOA First World Origami Fair: Kyoto, Tokyo 1976 Organised BOS convention in Birmingham 1976 Visited folders in Florence, Italy (first origami visit overseas) 1977 First work published by Robert Harbin in Origami 4 1977 Worked as Supplies officer for BOS 1978 Travelled to Japan to meet contacts and other creators 1980 Regular columnist in British Origami magazine 1981 Elected General Secretary of BOS 1985 Organised BOS 20th Anniversary convention in London 1987 Awarded BOS first Sidney French medal 1992 Stepped down from BOS council to write book of own origami work 1992 Elected honorary member, Friends of Origami Center of America 1992 Lectured at Origami Science and Art meeting, Ohtsu, Japan 1994 Elected BOS Chairman 1995 Brilliant Origami published 1996 Guest at AEP convention, Zaragossa, Spain 1997 Organised BOS 30th Anniversary convention in York 1997 Special guest at Origami USA convention, New York 1998 Judge of Origami Ceramic exhibition in Fukuoka, Japan 1999 Exhibitor and guest Akira Yoshizawa 88th birthday exhibition, Tokyo 1999 Special guest at 1st Swiss convention, Berne 2000 Exhibited and took master classes at Darwin Museum, Moscow 2000 Worked with Vincent Floderer, La Boisellerie, France 2000/1 Attended South East Origami Festival Charlotte North Carolina 2000 Organiser various origami events in UK for Japan 2001 Festivals 2001 Special guest South East Origami Festival Charlotte 2002 Organised longest origami train at Nat'l Railway Museum York 2003 Exhibitor Origami Masterworks Exhibition San Diego USA 2003/4 Guest at JOAS convention Tokyo 2004 Retired as BOS Chairman, elected BOS Vice President 2004 Attended and assisted Tomoko Fuse Bauhaus exhibition 2004 GeometricTransformations exhib at Constant Gallery Tel Aviv 2005 Special guest Israel Origami Center convention En Gev 2005 Publication of Selected Models 1997-2004 booklet by Israel OC 2005 Exhibitor Masters of Origami exhibition Hangar 7 Salzburg 2005 Designer of Balrog figure for Lord of the Rings musical Toronto 2005 Guest at Origami Mitra OPT event Bombay India 2006
	Kathy Knapp, USA
	Kathy's initial interest in folding was sparked in her high school chemistry class when her lab partner taught her to fold the inflatable rabbit. Nearly two decades later, her son taught her to fold the crane and introduced her to the word Origami. Kathy is married, the mother of three and the grandmother of three. Kathy has a BA in nursing, is a Master Trainer for the Girl Scouts, and spends much of her time as a volunteer for her church and for numerous charitable organizations. In 1989, a local museum asked Kathy to teach children how to fold the crane, and this was the first of many training sessions where she has shared her love of Origami with numerous local schools, scout troops, church and arts organizations. Since there is no local origami group, Kathy had to teach herself to do many folds from books and in the process, has acquired a substantial library of origami books and related information. Kathy recently joined the British Origami Society and Origami USA , and is planning to organize a local group. She is a participant in the Origami Peace Tree Art Movement (Origami Peace Tree Project).

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