![]() ![]() Each headdress is unique and can just as easily serve as a piece of stationary art as a wearable one. German artist Simin Koenig has created the most fantastical headdresses which have been featured internationally by Australian Polynesian dance groups, and seen as costuming for Burning Man, Renaissance fairs across the country, masquerade balls, galleries, and model photoshoots. Simins Creations exemplify what can only be described as fantasy beauty. Don’t let the description put you off Cheryl’s art has a beautiful antique quality that could be at home nestled among your favorite books. It all sounds incredibly creepy, but the results remind me of things you’d find on the shelves in an Edwardian sitting room or a nineteenth-century London “adventurers club”. All showcase taxidermy using only ethically sourced animals, such as road kill or creatures that have been found dead from natural causes. Inspired by a love of things old, broken, discarded and dead, Cheryl’s creations all feature one or more of these components. Next up is Cheryl Kuhn’s Soul Perchers art. Want a set of your own and a couple of doll head night lights to go along with it? Check out all her offerings on her website. These were just too odd to pass up and when hung off my front porch, a great way to keep nosey neighbors and unwanted solicitors away. Though she had an incredibly interesting collection of upcycled dolls which were definitely the stuff of nightmares, her cow bone wind chimes made me whip out my credit card. Moving on we met Hanna Bert of Hannabert Creations, who gets the award for the most creative use of a cow jaw. Rachaela’s one-of-a-kind creations are available for sale online starting at $125, where you can also view her entire collection. The attention to detail, the colors and the craftsmanship make these small treasures not only a must-have for collectors of carnival art, but for anyone looking for a special conversation piece for an office, library or entertainment space. Rachaela creates beautiful 3D folk art pieces themed around carnival freak shows. Though it was very difficult to choose, here are a few of our favorite picks, and all pieces are available for sale via the artists’ website.įeral Femme Art by Rachaela Dirsaria were the first to grab our attention. The sparking clean finished products are then turned into all manner of items, some beautiful, some disturbing, and all making you go, “it’s made out of what?” The art made from animal bones was so numerous that I had to ask where does one acquire the ‘raw material’? I learned that stout of heart artisans sometimes pick up actual roadkill, but mostly work with local slaughterhouses and furriers to come pick up the unused bits which then must be soaked in acidic baths to remove the… uh… leavings. Here was a collector and seller of Victorian funerary art, a woman who made wind chimes out of cattle bones, a purveyor of antique surgical instruments and more dead stuffed things under glass that you could count. Organizers Tony and Michelle have partnered with Ripley’s Believe It or Not, a taxidermy school, suspension artists (read, people hanging from their piercings) and over a hundred vendors and craftspeople to put on an exposition which more than lives up to its name. Our goal is to bring like-minded people together and have events that people truly enjoy. We have vendors on all spectrums of weird, creepy and unusual. We have expanded from 2 cities in 2017 to 8 cities in 2018 and now for 2019 we have 16 cities! We want to support local/national vendors, dealers and small businesses by giving them a place to sell and feel welcome. The first and Original Traveling Oddities event. Targeted toward “the lovers of the strange and unusual,” the O&CE describes itself as… Unfortunately, I was unable to attend its premier in the Windy City but corrected that in late July when the Oddities and Curiosities Expo came back through town, drawing together precisely what its name implied two show-floor levels of artists specializing in the odd and curious. embraces all things scary.īut as the band Ministry told us in 1986, for some every day is Halloween, and in 2018 a show came through Chicago which catered to this crowd in particular. Many of these concern haunters both professional and amateur who pour their money and talent into one month a year when the U.S. ![]() We here at Goth Chick News have the pleasure of covering several trade shows annually, dealing with a variety of topics on and near the horror industry. ![]()
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