Florence Temko
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Florence Temko (b. 1921), a pioneer in spreading origami in the United States, is the most prolific author on this subject. With fifty-five books to her credit on paper arts and folk crafts, she has been a strong influence on interesting beginners in the art of paperfolding. Some of them later developed complex origami designs previously unimaginable and applied their expertise into advanced innovations in the fields of art and science. [1]
Her involvement as a consultant to the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California, resulted in the mounting of the “Masterworks of Origami” exhibition there in 2003. Other museums in the United States and other countries subsequently recognized origami as an art form and set up their own exhibitions. [2]