The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy
A series of classes and workshops instructing students in arcane, traditional, taxidermatological or anatomically related studio and conceptual art techniques.
Taxidermy and Animal Preparations:
- Anthropomorphic Chick Taxidermy with Susan Jeiven
- Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy with Susan Jeiven
- Raccoon Head Taxidermy Class with Rogue Taxidermist Katie Innamorato
- Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop with former AMNH Senior Insect Preparator Daisy Tainton
- Traditional Insect Pinning Class with Former AMNH Senior Insect Preparator Daisy Tainton
- Wet Specimens with Sue Jeiven (forthcoming)
- Anatomical Wax Votive Workshop with Artist Sigrid Sarda
- Effigy Doll Class
- Life and Death Mask Casting Class with Artist Sigrid Sarda
- Mummification Class
- Vanitas Class with classically trained artist Lado Pochkhua
- The Victorian Art of Hair Jewelry with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann
Intellectual Trappings for the Arts
- Organization and Productivity for Creative/Artsy Types, with Oliver Burkeman of London’s “Guardian”
- Research Methods for Artists and Scholars with Rachel Elizabeth Herschman
Fine Art Technique
- Carbon Dust Drawing Workshop using Anatomical Specimens with medical illustrator Marie Dauenheimer
- Comparative Anatomy: Animals and the Fundamentals of Drawing with Chris Muller, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
- Dissection and Drawing Workshop with Real Anatomical Specimens with physical anthropologist Samuel Strong Dunlap, PhD
- Dissection as Studio Practice with artist Laura Splan
- Drawing from the Bestiary: Animal Anatomy of Real and Imagined Creatures with artist Saul Chernick
Proposals
If you are interested in proposing a class as part of this series, please email morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com.