February 2008

Dear Friends,

Origamido Studio is in transition. The show at the Fitchburg Art Museum has now closed, and the art is being packed. We are accepting appointments for teaching at schools, libraries, museums, company functions and colleges. We will not have regular hours, but we have been holding special, small sessions at our home by appointment only. Please call 978.372.1215 to schedule a class. Remember that we are primarily a commercial design studio, and we are biding the time in transition by authoring new books, taping more video lessons, and planning new installations. Some of the art from the Fitchburg show is for sale. Just call if you are interested in owning your own LaFosse origami piece for wall or pedestal.

We will of course continue to offer our books, DVD videos and papers via our web product listings, and our video downloads at www.origamiondemand.com Learn to fold for the price of a song! Most downloads are only $0.99 each. We do expect to expand our offerings, so check back often during the upcoming months.

Other news:

• Activity TV began in early 2007 on COMCAST ON DEMAND. Select KIDS, then Activity, then ORIGAMI or PAPER AIRPLANES to fold 20 lessons with host, Michael G. LaFosse!
• For those who do not have COMCAST service, some lessons rotate on their promotional website, www.activitytv.tv
• The Origami Now! show at the Peabody Essex Museum is open every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, until June 8, 2008. Go to www.pem.org for details.
• Our video lessons are being remastered with more models, all menu driven on DVD. The Butterfly & Moth DVD now shows how to fold the models on the book mentioned below.
• Our new book, Michael G. LaFosse's Origami Butterflies, a Field of Discovery through a System of Design, is 103 color pages, 8.5 x 11" with diagrams for 15 models ($34.99, GBC-bound for flat-open folding!) and is now available for purchase.

We realize that only a small fraction of our customers have had a chance to visit our storefront/gallery/classroom in the past 11 years, but we hope those of you that did, fully enjoyed the unique aspects of what Origamido Studio became in those years. We completed 55 publications and dozens of installations during our tenure here. We created an interesting Arts District, and gave Haverhill the best years of our lives (so far). We are very excited to announce that we plan to open an origami art gallery in Hawaii sometime in 2008. Both Michael and I are SCUBA divers, and we can't wait to live in a place so rich with exotic wildlife and natural beauty. All artists deserve a change of scenery, and we know we will be refreshed and invigorated by the Pacific Paradise.

- Richard and Michael