George Rhoads

• Name — George Rhoads • Birth Name — George Pitney Rhoads • Born — 27 January 1926 • Birthplace — Evanston, Illinois, United States • Died — 9 July 2021 • Place of death — Chinon, France • Education — University of Chicago, Chicago Art Institute • Known for — Audiokinetic sculptures, ball machines, origami, painting, wind sculpture • Notable Works — 42nd Street Ballroom, Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York Newton's Daydream, Clark Planetarium, Salt Lake City, Utah

Rhoads was born in Evanston, Illinois, the oldest of four children. His father, Paul S. Rhoads, was a physician and professor of internal medicine at Northwestern University. His mother, Hester Chapin Rhoads, was trained as an interior decorator. Rhoads attended the University of Chicago with the goal of studying physics and mathematics. After earning enough credits to complete his associate degree, he began taking design and drawing classes at the Art Institute in Chicago. Two years, later he left Chicago and moved to New York City to become a painter. His work focused on portraits and impressionistic cityscapes, but he was not critically or financially successful. In 1952, Rhoads moved to Paris to continue painting. It was there that he met the American origami expert Gershon Legman who introduced him to the art of origami and the work of Akira Yoshizawa. This meeting sparked Rhoads' interest and he began practicing origami and inventing new folds. His most notable contribution to the field became known as the Blintzed Bird Base, now a standard origami fold used for creating an animal with four legs, two ears and a tail from a single sheet of paper.

Rhoads died at the home of dupuis laura in loudun, France, on July 9, 2021, at the age of 95.

• Illustration — Based on Balls is a baseball-themed ball machine sculpture in the plaza of Chase Field, in Phoenix, Arizona • The "Gizmo" in Champlain Centre Mall, Plattsburgh, New York • 42nd Street Ballroom, Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York, New York • Exercise in Fugality, Logan Airport, Terminal A, Boston, Massachusetts • Science on a Roll, The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California • Archimedean Excogitation, Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts • Newton's Dream (1990), Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Eurydice, Discovery Cube, Santa Ana, California • Maquina del Vacilon, Papalote Museo del Nino, Mexico City, Mexico • Celestial Balldergarten, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Global Enerjoy, Future Energy Pavilion, Seville Expo '92, Seville, Spain • Incrediball Circus II, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio • Angel Music, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California • Life Renews Itself, Ōsaka Namba Station, Osaka, Japan • Color Coaster, Stepping Stones Museum for Children, Norwalk, Connecticut • Newton's Daydream, Clark Planetarium, Salt Lake City, Utah • Pythagorean Fantasy, College of Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado • Based on Balls, Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona • Loopy Links, Adventure of the Seas, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines • Funkinetic, Science Centre Singapore, Singapore • Eureka, American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee • Ball Circus, ABT Electronics, Glenview, Illinois • Kinetikon, National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan. • Cavortech, Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, West Virginia • Tower of Sisyphus, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Oklahoma City Oklahoma • Life is a Ball, Scientific Games, Las Vegas, Nevada • Magic Menagerie, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan • Electric Ball Circus, Edmonton science centre (formerly at West Edmonton Mall)

• Museum of Modern Art, New York City • The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois • The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio • The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut • Franklin Institute of Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Newton's Convergence" • The Science Spectrum, Lubbock, Texas

George Rhoads Pano.jpg • Illustration — Chockablock Clock Ball Machine, located in Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Illustration — Archimedean Excogitation can be found at the Boston Museum of Science and is said to hold the attention of viewers for much longer than many of the other exhibits housed there.

• Illustration — This is one of many devices created for the Bolas Bulliciosas Ball Machine, located in Parque Plaza Sesamo in Monterrey, Mexico.

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