Educational Objectives

The Academy Of Wildlife Art program is designed to teach students to become knowledgeable and self-sufficient in every aspect of the art of taxidermy. 

Students will be taught the skills necessary to successfully mount from start to finish most species of fish, birds, and mammals. 

Students will also be taught how to present each of these specimens in an artistic design that is pleasing to the eye using realistic habitat and rules of composition and design.

For your training our goal is for you to produce the highest quality mounts.  For this reason there will also be practice exercises so that you will gain confidence in the task at hand and then will perform what you’ve learned on an actual mount.  Students will be mounting a limited number of animals in order to concentrate on learning each technique thoroughly and with the highest standard instead of having to rush to the next step.  In our experience we have found that a relaxed environment where time is taken to truly study each step produces the highest quality.

All demonstrations are live, we do not use videos.  The live demonstrations by our highly qualified instructors allow you to have an example that you can look at again and again once the demonstration is over.