photo by Paul Koudounaris
Katie Innamorato is a modern-day Anubis, aiming to preserve and honor the deceased in their afterlife. She has been professionally trained and competes at state and world level championships. She has teamed up with The Field Museum for an educational video, taught classes for the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation, and worked with the SVA in NYC for some classes as well. She has been featured on the TV show "Oddities," displayed pieces at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, profiled in the book Taxidermy Art, along with coauthoring her own book, "STUFFED ANIMALS."
SOURCING
All specimen deaths are not related to the artwork. Everything is long deceased beforehand. Animals are sourced from roadkill when legal, abatement and nuisance removal, donations, pet store and breeder casualties, and scraps from other taxidermists which would often be thrown away.
Katie Innamorato
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Education-
-Bachelors of Fine Art, Sculpture - State University at New Paltz, New York
2012.
-Minor: Anthropology
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Bibliography-
-"Holiday Bizarre," Science Channel's Oddities TV Show, December 24, 2011
-"Carnivorous Nights Slideshow," The New York Times online, January 6, 2012
-"Dead Mouse Walking: New Yorkers Revive the Creepy Art of Taxidermy," The Atlantic online, July 31, 2012
-“Beauty in the Breakdown,” The New Paltz Oracle, Dec. 6th, 2012.
-"Death and Taxidermy," Odd Folks Home, Science Channel, February 9, 2013
-"Vampires from PhilaHELLphila," Oddities, Science Channel, June 22nd, 2013
-Featured in photogapher Mike McGregor's "PRESERVE," portrait series, June 2013. Online.
-Portrait featured on ANIMAL NEW YORK'sonline Art & Spectacle page,
-"TAXIDERMISTS WITH THEIR MOUNTS," June 18th, 2013.
-"An Unusual Art," The Spectator Online, October 9th, 2013.
-"Stuffed Animals," Volume One Online, October 10th, 2013.
-"Winged guinea pigs to be made in Hampden taxidermy class," The Baltimore Sun
Online, December 4th, 2013.
-"The Brooklyn Museum of Death," The Awl, April 17th, 2014.
-"The Art of Katie Innamorato," CULTURE Magazine, Online and Print, July 3, 2014.
-"What You Missed At Brooklyn's Taxidermy Fair This Weekend," The Gothamist, Online, October 6, 2014.
-"Rogue's Tail," City Paper, Online, October 7th, 2014.
-"Stuff it: celebrity taxidermist to teach class in Mobile," Online, October 7th, 2014.
-"Women Are Dominating The Rogue Taxidermy Scene," Vice, Online, October 14, 2014.
-"How Do You Make a Living, Taxidermist?" Pacific Standard, Online, November 26, 2014.
-"I'm a Vegetarian and I had a Great Time Dismembering a Dead Bunny," VICE, Jan 31st, 2015.
-"Morbid Anatomy Museum's Taxidermy Classes Offer a Slice of Life (and Death)," The NY Times, April 12, 2015.
-"Stuffed Animals," Badger Mag, June 25th, 2015.
-"Taxidermy Classes: All Guts and a Little Glory," The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 7th, 2015.
-"The Art of Taxidermy: What It's Like to Immortalize a Chicken," Modern Farmer, Oct, 2nd, 2015.
-"When Taxidermy Goes Rogue," National Audubon Society, March 30th, 2016.
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Print Media-
-“Beauty in the Breakdown,” The New Paltz Oracle, Dec. 6th, 2012.
-"Whimsical taxidermy catches on in Baltimore," The Baltimore Sun, February 19th
2014.
-"Local store offers lessons in taxidermy," The MetroWest Daily News Sunday,
February, 23rd, 2014
-"Local store offers lessons in taxidermy," The Milford Daily News Sunday, February 23rd, 2014.
-"Stuffed, but not stuffy," The Baltimore Sun, February 24th 2014.
-"Rogue Taxidermist," Feature and interview in Jacque's Magazine, Feb. 2014.
-"Local store offers lessons in taxidermy," The Milford Daily News, Print and Online, February 23, 2014.
-"The Art of Katie Innamorato," CULTURE Magazine, Online and Print, July 3, 2014.
-Spread in the book Taxidermy Art: A Rogue's Guide to the Work, the Culture, and How to Do It Yourself, pg. 59, by Robert Marbury, 2014.
-"Morbid Anatomy Museum's Taxidermy Classes Offer a Slice of Life (and Death)," The NY Times, April 12, 2015.
-Coauthored “Stuffed Animals,” with Divya Anantharaman, published by Norton, Oct. 2016.