Lawrence artist featured in Houston Chronicle

¢ Joel Cooper, a Lawrence artist specializing in origami, is featured in today’s Houston Chronicle. He’s part of an origami festival in Houston this weekend._Cooper has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with an emphasis in sculpture and bronze casting from University of Kansas. So once he learned tessellation, it wasn’t that much of a stretch to begin envisioning faces in the folds of the pleated paper. “I applied sculptural techniques to paper,” he said. “The challenge of it was so interesting to me that I just kept at it.”_¢ “Carol,” a 21-year-old student from Lawrence, is among the cast of Big Brother 8, according to CBS News. Kansas will be well-represented on the show – a 21-year-old woman from Haysville also is on it.