 – Opening to the public on Monday, November 21 in the Grand Gallery at American Museum Of Natural History, will be their annual Origami Holiday Tree.…){kind=link}
NEW YORK, NY (PNAN) – Opening to the public on Monday, November 21 in the Grand Gallery at American Museum Of Natural History, will be their annual Origami Holiday Tree.
The theme of this year’s 13-foot tree is “Beautiful Bugs” which features specially created models inspired by the upcoming Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium in the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, which will open February 17, 2023.
The insectarium is the first Museum gallery in more than 50 years dedicated to the most diverse and a critically important group of animals on Earth. Insects were also the original inspiration behind the Origami Tree.
Showcased among more than 1,000 origami pieces on view are intricate paper models of some of the world’s most amazing insects, including long-legged grasshoppers, brilliantly-colored butterflies, and even the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species recently observed in increasing numbers in the New York area.
In other events at the Museum, returning will be the “Margaret Mead Festival” which will be a two-day celebration of storytelling from the Indigenous Nations of the Pacific Northwest Coast and focus on film, performance and other media by Native artists.
On Saturday, December 3, the Festival will showcase contemporary short and feature-length documentary and narrative films created by and featuring members of Pacific Northwest Coast communities, selected by a group led by Mike Bourquin, a Tahltan/Gitxan multi-disciplinary filmmaker from the Iskut First Nation.
On Sunday, December 4, a series of special performances by the Git Hoan Dancers of the Tsimshian Tribe from Metlakatla, Alaska, will showcase the magnificence and creativity of Tsimshian art in 30-minute performances sharing legends and stories through song, dance and a variety of carved masks, headdresses, drums and rattles.