Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Tuesdays, November 3rd - December 8th, 7:00 - 8:30pm ET (NYC Time), 2026,
$160 Paid Patreon Members / $180 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join Robert Marbury, author of Taxidermy Art: A Rogue's Guide, for a six-week immersion into the polysemous world of preserved animals. Rather than a technique class, Taxidermy Culture: The Human Life of Animals uses taxidermy as a pressure gauge for who holds cultural authority over the natural world at any given moment.
We move through time and space, from the Wunderkammer to the Rogue Taxidermy movement, asking not just what taxidermy means, but who has the power to decide that meaning.
This includes an honest look at the asymmetry baked into natural history itself. Each session combines a visual lecture with structured discussion, moving through six eras that reveal how the same preserved animal can be a scientific specimen, a colonial trophy, a fine art object, and a meme — sometimes all at once.
Images:
Robert Marbury is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist whose work blends humor, research, and anthropology to explore how humans contextualize nature. Co-founder of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists and author of Taxidermy Art, his practice spans fur, fiber, and photography, revealing curious narratives between the wild and the everyday.
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Tuesdays, November 3rd - December 8th, 7:00 - 8:30pm ET (NYC Time), 2026,
$160 Paid Patreon Members / $180 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join Robert Marbury, author of Taxidermy Art: A Rogue's Guide, for a six-week immersion into the polysemous world of preserved animals. Rather than a technique class, Taxidermy Culture: The Human Life of Animals uses taxidermy as a pressure gauge for who holds cultural authority over the natural world at any given moment.
We move through time and space, from the Wunderkammer to the Rogue Taxidermy movement, asking not just what taxidermy means, but who has the power to decide that meaning.
This includes an honest look at the asymmetry baked into natural history itself. Each session combines a visual lecture with structured discussion, moving through six eras that reveal how the same preserved animal can be a scientific specimen, a colonial trophy, a fine art object, and a meme — sometimes all at once.
Images:
Robert Marbury is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist whose work blends humor, research, and anthropology to explore how humans contextualize nature. Co-founder of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists and author of Taxidermy Art, his practice spans fur, fiber, and photography, revealing curious narratives between the wild and the everyday.
