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About Meenakshi Mukerji

 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 soon to be followed by her second, Ornamental Origami:Exploring 3D Geometric Designs in December 2008. Her third book, Origami Inspirations, is due to be out in August 2010.

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


Aug 2010
Dec 2008
March 2007
Origami Inspirations
ISBN: 978-1-56881-584-8
Published by A.K.Peters Ltd. 		Ornamental Origami:
Exploring 3D Geometric Designs
ISBN: 978-1-56881-445-2
Published by A.K.Peters Ltd. 		Marvelous Modular Origami
ISBN: 978-1-56881-316-5
Published by A.K.Peters Ltd.

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Press Coverages and Mentions

Newspapers The Cupertino Courier & The Sunnyvale Sun,
May 21, 2008 issues, featured a cover story on my origami work.
The San Jose Mercury News published the same article online.



QRSTUVWXYZ Stars model photo
appeared in June 2004 issues of
The Reader's Digest, Australia &
New Zealand Editions.

  • Animals Out of Paper play by Rajiv Joseph featured my work in the sets in their San Francisco showing, Dec 2009 - Jan 2010.
  • Hokubei News: An article from Oct 11, 2007, "Different Ways of Origami", reports my booksigning event at the Paper Tree in Japan Town, San Francisco.
  • Ukiah Daily Journal: An article from March 27, 2007, "Her Enterprise is Folding" on Louise Yale by Katie Mintz mentions my name.
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    Diagrams/Articles/Photo Contributions

    September 2009

    Papercraft: Design and Art With Paper
    by Robert Klanten
    ISBN: 978-3899552515
    Published by: Die Gestalten Verlag

    Photos of my QRSTUVWXYZ Stars, Flowered Sonobe,
    Icosahedron with Waves, RSTUVWXYZ Rectangles
    and Flowered Dodecahedron appeared on page 164.

    October 2004

    The Encyclopedia of Origami
    by Nick Robinson
    ISBN: 0762418958
    Published by: Running Press

    A full page photo of QRSTUVWXYZ
    Stars appeared in the "Origami Around
    The World" section.

    Nov 2007
    		 Ultrapassando Fronteiras com o Origami
    (Exceeding Borders with Origami)
    by Bruno Ferraz,
    ISBN: 978-85-7393-630-8
    Published by
    Editora Ciência Moderna, Brazil
    Diagrams for my Whirl Cube were published.
    2007
    		 PAPIROFLEXIA Y GEOMETRÍA
    by EDUARDO GIL MORÉ,
    ISBN: 978-84-8412-411-5
    Published by
    Miguel A Salvatella, Spain

    My Plain Cube diagrams
    adapted for many other
    constructions were published.

    2010

    5OSME 2010 Convention Collection, Singapore, will publish diagrams for my Whipped Cream Star.

    2009

    British Origami Society Autumn 2009 Winchester Convention Collection published diagrams for my Simple Cubes.

    2008

    Origami Bolivia 2008 Convention Collection published diagrams for my Flower Cube model.

    March 2008

    British Origami Society Spring 2008 Nottingham Convention Collection published diagrams for my Blintz Base model.

    My Flowered Sonobe model appeared in the following:

    June 2008: Origami USA Annual Convention Collection.
    Sept 2007: British Origami Society 40th Anniversary Collection.
    May 2007: French Origami Society MFPP Convention Collection.

    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.
    August 2003

    Centro Diffusione Origami Quadrato Magico #71 published diagrams for my Primrose Floral Ball.

    April 2001

    Scaffold Vol , Issue 3, published diagrams for my Thatch Cube.


  • Helma van der Linden used and referenced some of my sonobe work in her PhD Thesis
    "Connecting Healthcare Professionsal: Studies on a generic EHR system framework", 2009.
  • Origami USA magazine Paper #100, February 2009, has my article titled "An Afternoon With the Legendary Florence Temko".
  • British Origami #253 magazine, December 2008, has my article titled "An Afternoon With the Legendary Florence Temko".
  • Origami USA magazine Paper 97, March 2008, has my article titled "My Book Writing Experience". It also has a review of Marvelous Modular Origami and features a couple of my model photos.
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    Exhibitions

  • April 18 - 19, 2009, at the Cherry Blossom Festival, San Francisco, CA.
  • Nov 1 - Dec 31, 2008, at the San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch
  • April 27, 2008, at the Cherry Blossom Festival, Cupertino, CA.

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    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)


    Sept - Dec, 2008, at the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco.
    		   
    June 2009: Origami-USA Convention, New York. (Photo by Andrew Hans)


    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).

    Teaching/Workshops

  • Nov 7-8 2009, Taught Calla Lily Ball, Ixora and Butterfly Cube at PCOC 2009, San Francisco, CA.
  • June 3 2009, Workshop on Sonobe Units, Sunnyvale Public Library, CA.
  • Dec 10 2008, Workshop on Sonobe Units, Cupertino Public Library, CA.
  • Nov 6 2008, Workshop on Sonobe Units, Sunnyvale Public Library, CA.
  • June 6 2008, Workshop on Sonobe Units, Sunnyvale Public Library, CA. (See Google Video or a podcast).
  • Nov 2007, taught Poinsettia Floral Ball at PCOC 2007, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Sept 2005, taught Daisy Cube at PCOC 2005, Phoenix AZ.
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    Other

    June 2005

    Winner of the 2005
    Florence Temko Award
    presented by
    Origami USA

  • Nov 2009: Featured artist at Pacific Coast Origami Conference 2009, San Francisco, CA.
  • Aug 2009: Featured artist at Origami Heaven Exhibition, Stony Brook, NY.
  • Origami USA magazines Paper 91 and Paper 92, 2005, mention my Florence Temko Award.
  • British Origami Society Magazine #224, Jan 2004: Ori on the Web column by Vignesh Cumareshan has a review on my website Meenakshi's Modular Mania.
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