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Strange, unusual, and undeniably popular: StrangeFest took over Scranton’s historic Ritz Theater on Sunday, transforming it ...
Think again. Since the days of William Hornaday and Carl Akeley, taxidermy has been a scientific art: It requires practitioners not only to take accurate measurements and photos and make traces of ...
“There’s sculpting, there’s painting, there’s sewing, there’s all kinds of stuff.” Butterfly and beetle-pinning classes are a great introduction to taxidermy, says Salem. The Insect ...
In fact, taxidermy is a painstaking ... and perpetuating the memory of a living creature in the name of science, art, or education is sometimes better than leaving it to decompose and be forgotten ...
Joey Dvorak loves art, and he has passed along that love of art to his oldest daughter, Felicity. But this Braham family has ...
Both these may be advantageously studied together; and the result of their perusal will scarcely fail to convince the reader that the art in question stands on a higher level, and is making more ...
Wenck, owner of Diggers Taxidermy, is the current president of the South Dakota Taxidermist Association. He said the work taxidermists do is considered an art and not a science. “It’s more ...
The art of taxidermy has become fashionable again in recent years. But it has always been scientifically useful. Bird curator Hein van Grouw demonstrates how it's done.
(Cool fact: Naturalist Charles Darwin learned the art of taxidermy from a man named John Edmonstone, a former enslaved person from Guyana who eventually settled in Scotland.) “Taxidermy offers ...
PlanetV Festival’s fifth annual collaborative and connective art, nature, music and community gathering over Memorial Day ...
This might be the strangest workshop to date - learning how to build animal skeletons at a taxidermy workshop and bringing ...