Brooklyn Taxidermy, Brooklyn

What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?
Our work has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, The LA Times, VICE Magazine, National Geographic, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, TimeOut NY, Gothamist and many others. We were profiled on Oxygen TV's In Progress, Discovery Science's TV series Oddities, and more.

Do you provide any materials? What should your students expect to bring?
All materials and specimens are provided for the student. We provide a butterfly spreading board, forceps, pinning tape, and specimens for use in class. Each student will leave the class with a 5 pinned butterflies, a spreading board, and a shadowbox frame.

What was the inspiration to start or run this business?
We are inspired by Natural History and community-bound curiosity about it.

What do you love most about your job?
We are ethical taxidermists! We follow and support ethical guidelines with respect to animal welfare. None of the animals used were killed for the sake of taxidermy; their deaths are not related to the art.