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The central theme of WOWWAW 2007 was favourite Fairy Tale Heroes.

Dorothy, Toto and the Cowardly Lion

Folder: Hellen Semenovitch (14)
Designer: Stephen Weiss (Girl in a dress), Kunihiko Kasahara (Puppy), Trad. (Lion)
Group: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Favourite Fairy Tale: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L.Frank Baum

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Traveling Frog

Queen Frog

Little Tower-room

Scheherazade

Colobok

Snow Man

Ship

Winnie-the-Pooh

The Snow-Maiden

Monkey Anfisa

Snowmaiden

Basket of Little Red Riding Hood

Sonic the Hedgehog

The Smecharik

Tortoise

The Little Mermaid & Dolphin

Dorothy, Toto and the Cowardly Lion

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Emelya

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Here you can find the people responsible for choosing the Artwork of the Year 2007.

	Boytcho Avtov, Bulgaria
	Born 1954 Educated at the University of Sofia - Arabistic (1979) and Journalism (1985) Experience: 12 years as a journalist in Bulgarian National Radio One of the founders of the First Bulgarian Private Radiostation "FM +" Since 2002 secretary of International programes of Bulgarian Association for Peace and Non-violence Director of Summer Art Forum "Sun, Friendship, Peace", held in Obzor, Bulgaria Married, has 3 children.
	Svetlana N. Belim, Russia
	the methodical head of the Omsk Origami Center teacher of mathematic in Omsk school number 139 head of Siberian Origami During Olympiads and Siberian Conference "Origami in the educational process" head of Internet project "Origami and Geometry"
	Mike Bright, The United Kingdom
	His involvement in origami began in his childhood, where his fingers were constantly found folding random pieces of paper into ... even smaller random pieces of paper, but with just a few more creases on them. To make sense of this randomness, his parents for his 13th Birthday, bought him his first origami book - Robert Harbin's Origami 1. Other books followed, but it was this first book that almost got him into trouble with the law. In a rebellious mood one day in school, he found himself making some bombs in order to cite a revolution. The reasons for the revolution have been lost in time and anyway nothing came of it, but in his own words '...it was jolly good fun making these bombs'. For the next 25 years, his interest in origami lay in folding the creations of other origamists as well as handing out paper hearts to waitresses made from the paper napkins in the restaurants he used to visit. A few years ago, he decided to revisit his childhood passion of random folding to see if he could create anything himself. Fifty or so original creations later, he is still randomly folding pieces of paper, but this time into objects that bear uncanny resemblances (well sort of if you use your imagination) to puppy dogs, cartoon characters, hearts etc. Thirty or so of these models have been diagrammed up and can be seen at his website http://www.geocities.com/mikebr2003 where he also showcases his origami family tree poster, origami murder mystery play and a light hearted look at the role of origami in world events. He is also the owner and moderator of the Yahoo Origami Skill Exchange Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/origami_exchange an initiative to bring model creators and diagrammerss together to produce diagrams of previously undiagramed models - for free. Mike lives with his wife and no pets in Cardiff, Wales. He is an architectural technician, working on some of the tallest buildings to be built in Wales. He still fondly remembers his bomb making days in school and states '...it was real messy making these water bombs from Robert Harbin's Origami 1 book, but somebody had to do it and I was the only one with the requisite water bomb making skills'!
	Silvia Celani, Italy
	Silvia Celani is a researcher at the Digital Youth Consortium in charge of International Projects. She has been the project manager of the Global Junior Challenge 2002 and 2004, an international event. From January 2004 Silvia is the Project Manager of the European Project E-Muse (e-Learning for Museum and School Enviroments), in the field of technology innovation of education system for the schools and for Museum. From January 2005 Silvia Celani is the Project Manager of "Holding Hands", an Electronic "Journalino" for Cultural Dialogue, Understanding and Peace.
	Aurèle Duda, France
	After studying music and musicology, Aurèle Duda (France, Metz - 1981), devotes a part of his life to teaching origami and designing origami artwork. He organizes collective folding sessions for children or teenagers, participates in artworks exhibition with origami installations. His conception of origami is that fold should be the best poetic way to enhance the beauty of paper as fibers material. So his works doesn't tend to complexity but to investigate and preserve the properties of each sheets and types of paper. He maintained his own website http://aurele-origami.com/. He is an active member of Mouvement Francais des plieurs de papiers (MFPP - French Origami Society) and moderator on the French Origami Forum OriKwoon.
	Lori Gregory, USA
	I have been folding origami for over 15 years. And have been a part of the Seattle origami group (P.A.P.E.R. - Puget Area Paperfolders Enthusiasts Roundtable) for almost 10 years. I'm the secretary / treasurer for the group. And help organize many of its meetings and events. I assisted in the organization of our one convention (ORCA - Origami Regional Conference of America) in Seattle in August of 1999. I was also the curator for the international origami exhibit held at the Train Depot Gallery in Anacortes, Washington in 2002. I am currently the "local area group liaison" for Origami-USA, meaning I track all the local groups and I maintain the group listing in a database for the website. I also manage the event calendar on the OUSA website. I have volunteered at many origami conventions; including Origami USA's in New York for various years, PCOC (Pacific Coast Origami Conference) in San Francisco, San Diego & Phoenix, and the SEOF (Southeast Origami Festival) in Charlotte. I assisted in writing with Jonathan Baxter & Marsha DuPre the "Teachers Resource Guide for Origami" used for teaching in schools for SEOF. I've also attended two international conventions, the MFPP in Toulouse, France in 2003 and the JOAS in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. Both of which were wonderful experiences! The Seattle origami volunteers and teaches and several events each year and I have participated in most of them, and they include: The Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival, the Aki Matsuri in the fall, Sakura-con Anime Festival, the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, the Bellevue Art Museum, the Seattle Ikebana group, and the Japanese Garden at the Seattle Arboretum. Website for the Seattle Origami group http://home.comcast.net/~origami_seattle/
	Meenakshi Mukerji (Adhikari), USA
	Meenakshi Mukerji (Adhikari) was introduced to origami in her early childhood by her uncle Bireshwar Mukhopadhyay. She rediscovered origami in its modular form as an adult, quite by chance in 1995, when she was living in Pittsburgh, PA. A friend took her to a class taught by Doug Philips, and ever since she has been folding modular origami and displaying it on her very popular website www.origamee.net. She has many designs to her own credit. In 2005, Origami USA presented her with the Florence Temko award for her exceptional contribution to origami. Meenakshi was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She obtained her BS in electrical engineering at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and then came to the United States to pursue a master's in computer science at Portland State University in Oregon. She worked in the software industry for more than a decade but is now at home in California with her husband and two sons to enrich their lives and to create her own origami designs. Some people who have provided her with much origami inspiration and encouragement are Rosalinda Sanchez, David Petty, Francis Ow, Rona Gurkewitz, Ravi Apte, Rachel Katz, and many more.
	Loredana Tara, Romania
	My name is Loredana Tara and I'm born in Iasi, Romania. I'm teacher at "Miron Costin"College Iasi. In 2005, I graduated The Universitary College from The Pshichology and Educational Sciences Faculty, "Al. I. Cuza" University Iasi with a work about origami subject. In the autumn 1998, I decided to propose for the first time an optional curriculum for my 11 old years pupils. In Romania, that was the periode which was introduced the optional disciplines, accordingly to the reform of the educational sistem. In that summer, I just bought a very beautiful book, "Hobby Origami"(by Zulal Ayture-Scheele), in which I found many ideas for my practical abilities lessons. At this time, I didn't know informations about the art of origami. My husband encouraged me to try to make figurines and to learn my pupils too. I elaborated all the schoolar documents for introducing to my class, for one year, the optional discipline "Practical abilities through origami technique"( 36 hours, one hour per week). I succeed to obtain the aproval of my superiors for this approach. More and less experimental, I started to discover, together with my pupils, the beauty of the origami figurines. We had folded: the duck, the monkey, the peacock, the penguin, the elephant, the dog, the fish, the crane, the butterfly, the swan, many flowers, the rabbit, the frog and decoratives objects (stars, baloons). At the ends of each semester, I organized lessons in wich groups of children were worked dioramic representations of various enviromental situations. It was a real newness in the educational sistem at least in Iasi, my town. (Until now, we have signals that is the first time in the Romanian educational sistem when a teacher was made origami with his class). For the children, the parents and for the other teachers from my school, the impact was positive. This fact made me to continue that work. I started to looking for more informations about the history of origami, other books. (Unfortunately, in Romania, this publications are very rarely). So, I was published in pedagogical magazines articles about the benefits of origami: "Do you choose Origami?", in the "Iesean School Review" (no.1/2000), Iasi, Canova Publishing House; "Origami, Japanese Traditional Art", in the "Teacher's Review" (no.10/2003), Iasi, Ro-Sakura Publishing House; "Origami, the art of giving life to paper" in the "Didactical Interferences Review"(no.4/2004), Bacau, Corgal Press Publishing House; "The development of the comunications abilities trough the origami technique", in the tome "Through others, towards ourselfs" coordinated by Professor Doru Tigau, Iasi, Golia Publishing House, 2004; "Origami techique- interdisciplinares capacities", in the tome "Interdisciplinares perspectives in the Romanian Education" coordinated by Lecturer Professor Doctor of Science Mihai Stanciu and Teacher Marioara Schiopu, Botosani, Axa Publishing House, 2004; "Practical abilities trough the origami technique", in the Annuary of The Pedagogical College"V. Lupu", Iasi, Pim Publishing House, 2005. "8 years of origami", in "Influences"Review (no.2/2006), Optima Publishing House, Iasi. I spreaded my practical experince in this domain. I was participated to many symposions in Iasi and in other towns of Romania(Bacau, Botosani) where, also, I promoted this art. In this period, I encouraged my children to participate to many afterschool activities. I organizated exchibitions with the pupils work in my school and in the other institutions(The Children's Palace, The Cultural Palace, The Botanical Garden, The Tatarasi Athenaeum). Also, I initiated partnerships with "G.Ibraileanu College", "Col. Constantin Langa"Miroslava School, "Funny English Particulary School", The Kindergarden no.16, The Kindergarden no.21. Since 1998, every year I was promoted the art of origami- through demonstrative lessons, circles- among children. The influence of my work was reflected by the fact that other teachers was take over my scholar documents (the optional curriculum) and had applied at their classes. Between 2002-2004, I elaborated my work for obtain the first degree in education-"The practical abilities through the origami technique, an optional discipline with real formativ capacities for the little students". In 2004, I was published two books on the pedagogy of origami (edited by PIM Publishing House, Iasi): the first is intitulated in the same way with the degree work and the second is "Pedagogical pleading for optional abilities through origami technique". The books contains only text because I didn't have the technical support to show origami diagrams. In the future I intend to find a way to make photos or drawing for ilustrating the text of my books. All the best from Romania!

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