About Meenakshi Mukerji
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Meenakshi Mukerji (Adhikari) was introduced to origami as a child by her uncle Bireswar Mukhopadhyay.
She rediscovered origami in 1995 in its modular form quite by chance when she was living in Pittsburgh, PA.
A friend took her to a class taught by Doug Philips and ever since, she has been designing
modular origami and displaying it on her very popular website. In 2005,
Origami USA
presented her with the Florence Temko award for generously sharing her work on the internet.
In April 2007,
A K Peters Ltd published her first origami book
Marvelous Modular Origami. After a successful launch her second and third books soon followed:
Ornamental Origami: Exploring 3D Geometric Designs in December 2008, and Origami Inspirations in August 2010.
She was featured artist at PCOC 2009, Origami Heaven 2010, and special guest at Polish Origami 2011 conventions. Meenakshi was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She obtained her degree in Electrical Engineering at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and then came to the United States to pursue a Masters in Computer Science. After completion, she worked in the software industry for over a decade and is now at home in California with her husband and two children to enrich their lives and to practice origami and author books. People who have provided her with much origami inspiration and encouragement are Rosalinda Sanchez, David Petty, Francis Ow, Rona Gurkewitz, Robert Lang, Rachel Katz, Ravi Apte and the numerous viewers of her website. |
Books by Meenakshi Mukerji
Nov 2011 Exquisite Modular Origami ISBN: 978-1-46370-760-6 Published by CreateSpace |
Aug 2010 Origami Inspirations ISBN: 978-1-56881-584-8 Published by A.K.Peters/CRC Press |
Dec 2008 Ornamental Origami: Exploring 3D Geometric Designs ISBN: 978-1-56881-445-2 Published by A.K.Peters/CRC Press |
March 2007 Marvelous Modular Origami ISBN: 978-1-56881-316-5 Published by A.K.Peters/CRC Press |
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Press Coverages/Mentions
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Diagrams/Articles/Photo Contributions
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September 2009
Papercraft: Design and Art With Paper
Photos of my QRSTUVWXYZ Stars, Flowered Sonobe, |
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October 2004
The Encyclopedia of Origami
A full page photo of QRSTUVWXYZ |
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My Compound of 5 Octahedra appeared in the following: March 2012: Origami_USA online magazine The Fold, Issue 9. February 2011: British Origami Magazine #266. | ||
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August 2011 Origami USA PAPER magazine, Issue 107, published diagrams for my Dimpled Model with Curls. | ||
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April 2011 Origami Sociëteit Nederland Magazine Mennorode 2011, published diagrams for my Daylily. | ||
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April 2011 British Origami Magazine #267, published diagrams for my Zinnia Star. | ||
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July 2010 5OSME 2010 Convention Collection, Singapore, published diagrams for my Whipped Cream Star. | ||
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June 2010 Origami USA 2010 Annual Collection, New York, published diagrams for my Waves model. | ||
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2009 British Origami Society Autumn 2009 Winchester Convention Collection published diagrams for my Simple Cubes. | ||
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2008 Origami Bolivia 2008 Convention Collection published diagrams for my Flower Cube model. | ||
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March 2008 British Origami Society Spring 2008 Nottingham Convention Collection published diagrams for my Blintz Base model. | ||
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My Flowered Sonobe model appeared in the following:
June 2008: Origami USA
Annual Convention Collection. | ||
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September 2006 British Origami Society Autumn 2006 Bristol Convention Collection published diagrams for my Star Windows model. | ||
          May-August 2003: Origami notable David Petty's website featured diagrams of my ten planar designs in Special Guest Folders. | |||
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August 2003 Centro Diffusione Origami Quadrato Magico #71 published diagrams for my Primrose Floral Ball. | ||
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April 2001 Scaffold Vol 1, Issue 3, published diagrams for my Thatch Cube. | ||
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Exhibitions
Nov 2011, my exhibits at East Bay Origami Convention, UC Berkeley.
PCOC 2011 International Exhibits alongside Miyuki Kawamura and Krystyna Burczyk's work and PCOC 2011 Regular Exhibits, Seattle Washington. Photos © Hank Morris. | |
May 2011, my exhibits at the 10th Polish Origami Convention, Krakow. |
Dec 2010, Mathematics Teachers Association, Krakow. My models folded by Polish friends to announce my special guest appearance at POA convention 2011. (Photo by Wojciech Burczyk). |
Nov-Dec 2009, at the Snowflake Lane Exhibition, Bellevue, WA. (Photo by John Smiley) |
August 2009, at the Origami Heaven Festival, Stony Brook. (Photo by Andrew Hans) |
 November 2009, at PCOC, San Francisco, CA. (Photo by Joy Dutta) June 2009: Origami-USA Convention, New York. (Photo by Andrew Hans) | |
Sept - Dec 2008, at the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco. |
May 2008, Kusudama Exhibition featuring my models folded by Halina Narloch, Krakow, Poland. |
 Jan 2008: American Mathematical Society & Mathematical Association of America Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, Exhibition of Mathematical Art Catalog, ISBN: 978-0-9802191-0-4. My Poinsettia Floral Ball was exhibited and featured on the catalog cover. |
 Nov 2007: PCOC, Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Saswati Chakladar) |
 June 2007: OUSA Convention, New York, NY (Photo by Julie Savard) |
 Sept 2005: PCOC, Phoenix, AZ (Photo by Ravi Apte). |
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Teaching/Workshops
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June 2005 Winner of the 2005 Florence Temko Award presented by Origami USA |
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Trivia
| My first origami : | Traditional Boat at age 5. |
| My first origami book : | My Origami Birds, 1975. |
| My first society membership : | British Origami Society, 1976, while still in grade school. |
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| My first modular origami : | Ornamental Omega Star by Michael Naughton, 1994. |
| My first modular origami book : | Unit Origami Multidimensional Transformations by Tomoko Fuse, 1996. |
| My first own design : | Daisy Sonobe Cube, 1997. |
| My first website launch : | This same website hosted on then web host Geocities, 1997. |
| My first published work : | Thatch Cube in Scaffold Vol 1 Issue 3, April 2001. |
| My first origami conference : | Pacific Coast Origami Conference, Arizona, 2005. |
| My first published book : | Marvelous Modular Origami, 2007. |
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