About the Members

Nick Albright is the owner of a local company which transforms your home to solar power. Nick found CAPS through Marcon (a local aternative realities convention). Nick discovered origami early in elementary school at the school library and put that to good use folding the corners of his homework. At the age of 10, he joined the local origami group, "Lone Star Origami" and enjoyed doing demonstrations with them at Bloomingdales, the Botancial Gardens and Renaissance Fairs. He is currently enjoying modular origami and "any models that are just a bit too hard". Nick is a very advanced folder and has made some wonderful models. We expect to see great things from him.Nick Albright's Page

Murri Ingertson is CAPS only "Sterling Member". In as much as she is the first and only member, thus far, to have had perfect attendance for a year. Murri's background is in textile design; she's a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. Murri started doing origami as a result of her son's interest in origami and she pursued this interest even after her son lost interest. Murri has an excellent eye for color and pattern and offers fresh suggestions for designs. She is a real asset to CAPS and we're pleased to have her as a member.

Anne Roberts has a BFA, and MAEd from Ohio University. Teaching art for 26 years at Alexander Schools has been her career. She is a member of Ohio Art Education Association. She and her husband live in an old house, built in 1834, in the center of the old college town, Athens. She has a son who lives in New York. They love traveling when not enjoying the warmth of the small community that has been so supportive in the trials of her husband's recent illness.She started doing origami as a child with her sister when they received some origami books from their grandmother. As an adult, origami became a passion when getting more books for Christmas. She attended and taught at her first national origami convention in 1994. Here she met some other Ohio folders such as Michael and Merida Weinstein, and the late Gloria Farison. Anne has organized various folding groups over the years and is currently heading a local group for AFAN, Athens Friends and Neighbors. She has shared her love of the pastime with libraries, and local arts organizations.

Monica Salisbury graduated from Ohio State University, and explores her artistic interests in painting and drawing, large metal sculpture, wind sculpture, air brushing T-Shirts, writing childrens books (not publishing them...just writing them), woodworking, ceramics, photography, floral design, training horses, and of course origami...(ok, not much of a focus). Monica has won awards for her modular origami pieces and has been invited again this year to teach at the Morgan Art and Papermaking Conservatory. in Cleveland, Ohio. Please check their website for upcoming classes. Monica's cards will be available shortly, at Dysfunctional Family Cards and other work is availabe through local retail businesses. Monica Salisbury's Page

John Scully is the owner of a IT company, iSupportisp, in Columbus which provides IP service to numerous industries. John's involvement in CAPS lies mainly in his experience in computers and web design.

Jon Tucker is a student at Akron University; his major is in music. Jon is our most advanced folder/designer. He has many, many wonderful models he's designed. Jon is a real artist and it is our hope that we can get at least some of Jon's work diagrammed and subsequently published. We know others will be as eager to learn Jon's models as we are.Jon Tucker's Page

Tim Tucker is fairly new at folding but he's eager and interested. He's generous with his time and has proven to be a tremendous help at the various workshops and demonstrations we have conducted. He is a patient teacher with new folders and he's a good eye for checking diagrams.

Merida Weinstein is a font of information about paper making and an experienced origami instructor. She and Michael have taught at the national convention many times. Merida is very accomplished in the textile arts as well. She has won many awards for her incredible knitting as well as for origami. Both Michael and Merida bring many years of experience in folding, running classes and much more.

Dr. Michael Weinstein is a tenured professor of Molecular Genetics at the Ohio State Uiversity. His first faculty job at Ohio State was in 1999. Michael started folding when he was a "wee tyke". His mother tells stories of him folding from before he's able to remember much of anything. He feels he must just be "wired for it". He folded everything he could get his hands on for years and years. A new origami book was a major event for him and a more welcome present than anything else. He continued folding until he moved to the West Coast to do graduate work. Where one day he saw an ad for an origami demonstration in L.A. which he attended and there met other folders for the first time in his life. Among them a fellow, he especially remembers, Robert Lang, who showed Michael his amazing creations. As far back as that he had a collection of paper airplanes although he had not yet diagrammed his designs. Later that year he met the "grand dame" of origami, Florence Temko, who has been a dear friend. He also met an interesting woman, V'Ann Cornelius, who had begun folding and was interested in getting an origami group together. V'Ann of course became a real force in the artform and organized the first museum exhibit of origami, before her untimely death. It was during this time that he met his future spouse, Merida. By this time computers were democratizing diagramming. With a computer and a bit of know how (and the right software) anyone could produce publishable artwork. He began diagramming his own creations and writing his own origami book. Michael and Merida moved to Cincinnati so he could do his postdoctoral work which put him in reach of New York and they began attending the New York Convention yearly and publishing diagrams in the Convention program. He also began looking for a publisher for his own work, with little success. Later, another move, to Washington, D. C. where he continued attending conventions yearly and writing his book and publishing diagrams here and there. Michael became a pilot in 2001 and feels his training has helped immensely with the writing of his origami paper airplane book:"Stationery Flight: Extraordinary Paper Airplanes" (available from Amazon) published by Cypress House in 2001 and the upcoming "Stationery Flight: Kamikaze!" All of the models in the second book have been designed to be folded from a square as befits a "proper origami airplane".The following year, 2002, he won an aircraft from the Experimental Aircraft Association, which he flies all the time. He is a driving force behind our upcoming convention in 2010. Michael has won awards for his life like origami insects and brings invaluable experience to the group and our activities..

Chris Welsh came in contact with origami when he was but a "wee tyke" much like MIchael. He was part of an after school program that happened to have an origami book. As a result of that "first contact" with origami, he started asking for his own origami books. He received two, which he still has to this day. It was only a few short years before origami was put on the back burner of life and practically forgotten. Almost 15 years later his love for origami was rekindled. One day, while surfing the internet he came across a website called "flickr". His eyes were opened to the ever-changing, ever growing world of origami. He was amazed at the things that could be made from a square of paper. With his love for origami reignited he became obsessed with modular origami, and for the last 18 months has been in a modular folding frenzy. Chris is a meticulous folder who loves to fold models with hundreds, sometimes thousands of individual pieces. Folding the work of others led him to design a few of his own models. He has not managed to diagram his designs, as yet. In addition to his skills as an origami artist, Chris brings a background in visual media to the group which we have every interest in exploiting and which he hopes to fuse with his passion for origami. Chris Welsh's Page