It was founded in 1980 by Michael Shall, Alice Gray, and Lillian Oppenheimer as the Friends of the Origami Center of America.
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Annual Convention -- held on the last full weekend of June at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, it is attended by some 800 people each year and provides typically 30 parallel sessions of origami instructional classes for an entire weekend, as well as special seminars on design and folding techniques.
Today the popularity of origami has given rise to origami societies such as the British Origami Society and OrigamiUSA.