More than 100 meticulously folded origami teeth and vividly colored prints of neurochemicals hang from the walls of Sam Smith and Hailey Hodge's basement studios. For a year, the two Converse College ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

Modern origami was popularized throughout Japan and the United States through exhibitions of the work of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of origami, who developed a standard way to teach folding ...