Takeshi Yamada’s Rogue Taxidermy Demonstration at American Museum of Natural History in NYC

Takeshi Yamada, one of the Working Members of MART, will have a FREE live public Mythic Creatures Taxidermy demonstration at the American Museum of Natural History on June 24 (Sun), 2007 in Manhattan, New York. This is a FREE event upon purchasing the normal museum admission fee at the entrance.

This is the part of the Mythic Festival with over a dozen performers, dancers and artists on the day at the AMNH. (The Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids exhibition on the 3rd floor by the dinosaur exhibition, which features documentary film of Yamada and his Sea Rabbit of Coney Island needs separate ticket. This special e exhibition will run until January 6, 2008, and it will travel to other natural history museums including the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL.)

Yamada’s four hour long taxidermy art demonstration (1 – 5 pm) at the first floor of the AMNH reveals some of his unique techniques of creating Fiji Mermaids, giant carnivorous clams, dragons, etc. at his Cabinet of Curiosities. Examples of them are “high speed degreasing”, “skin adjustment”, “stuffing”, “replication”, “simulation”, “rouging”, “combining”, “gaffing”, “blending” and “greasing”. At his demonstration site, Yamada will also exhibit over a dozen of his creative taxidermy artworks and sideshow gaffs of monsters and marvels such as 4-feet Fiji mermaids, 3-feet Dragons, 3-feet Giant Sea Dragon, 7-feet Giant Anaconda Worm, 3-feet Giant Alligator Clam, 3-feet prehistoric Giant Horseshoes Crabs, 3-feet Sea Rabbit, etc. For more information see the AMNH website.

posted by M.A.R.T. at 9:56 AM