Skull-A-Day at The Mütter Museum

I had the great honor to return to Philadelphia's fantastic Mütter Museum recently to do an event for my new Skull-A-Day book!

photo by Anna Dhody

photo by Evi Numen

The museum's curator Anna Dhody, who wrote the foreword for the book, filmed an interview with me for their No Bones About It web show while I was there...


I also got to spend some time behind the scenes of the museum and captured a few images of their amazing collection that's not currently on display...

Signed copies of Skull-A-Day the book are available at the Mütter Museum and I highly recommend a visit anytime you're in Philly!

[BONUS] Skull Mail

A couple of treats turned up in the Skull-A-Day mailbox this week...

We got our official certificate and image for the skull that we sponsored as part of the Mütter Museum's Save Our Skulls campaign! There's still time to pick one of the 139 Hyrtl Skulls to “adopt.” Save a 150+ year old skull & have your name in the Mütter Museum! Details are HERE.

I also got a set of the wonderful edible sugar skulls that were recently offered as part of a giveaway here from the Tierra Dulce Shop and I can attest that they are as delicious as they are beautiful!  Thanks guys!

Skull Appreciation Day 2012 Recap

Just wanted to recap this year's Skull Appreciation Day celebrations...

For those of you who missed our one-day Skull Appreciation Day 2012 exhibition at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum here area few pix of the work we had on display...

Mütter Museum curator Anna Dhody even wore this maternity shirt especially for the day!...

More pix of the exhibition can be found on Flickr HERE. Several of the pieces are still available for purchase, find out more about them HERE.

Of course we weren't the only ones celebrating Skull Appreciation Day, here's a sampling of some other folks were up to....

Our friend Melissa at The Daily Nail painted her nails especially for the day:

Our friend and daily Pinup artist Betsy VanDeusen created this lovely piece for the day:

  

 Laurel Hill Cemetery put Skeleton Man out for an afternoon in the sun:

Jeremy Brautman posted about 20 of his favorite skulls AND featured my own 100 Painted Skulls project:

The fine folks at Smeared Ink created a second annual blog hop for the day! Below are just a few things that were shared. Be sure to click through the links on this page to see all of the excellent work that was created by the 40 participants!

Terra

Ndustrial Lemon

Croms' Cubby Hole

 

Popsicle Toes

our friend Wenchkin even created this coloring page giveaway contest!

And fellow skull-lovers Craniophiles are currently in the midst of a week-long celebration:

All in all, a wonderful celebration of the cranium this year! And plans are already in the works for another exciting event from us here at Skull-A-Day for 2013 so stay tuned for more details.

What did you do for Skull Appreciation Day this year? Post your stories/links in the comments section and send us pictures to share!

Skull Appreciation Day 2012

Just a reminder that June 4th is Skull Appreciation Day!

The editors of Skull-A-Day will be partnering with our friends at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum for a special one-day event!

 If you're in the Philly area I hope you'll stop by the museum between 10am and 5pm for an exhibition of 50+ original skull sculptures, plus dozens of pieces of skull mail art sent directly to the museum from artists from around the globe!

The event is FREE with regular museum admission! Museum information can be found HERE and a map of the location is HERE. Hope to see you there on June 4th!

And hey, even if you can't make it, we want to hear from you about how you plan to spend your day and of course we want to see pix of the aftermath!

Skull Appreciation Day 2012 Exhibition/Giveaway!

Skull-A-Day is taking Skull Appreciation Day on the road this year!

The Skull-A-Day staff will be spending this June 4th at the Philadelphia's Mütter Museum with a one-day exhibition of skull art from around the world. We will be bringing dozens of original pieces of art from last year's Skull Appreciation Day exhibit along with a bunch of brand new mail art pieces!

If you're in the area I hope you'll come by and say hi between 10am and 5pm on June 4th. And even if you're not in the area, you can participate by sending in your own original skull mail art for us to display, details are HERE.

As a special bonus we're giving away 50 limited edition silver Skull Appreciation Day pins (1.25" diameter featuring the skull/heart icon and the words "June 4") to the first 50 people* that send a self addressed envelope with 2 First Class stamps (90 cents total) on it to us at:  

Skull-A-Day
PO Box 73236
Richmond, VA 23235

*Don't wait if you want to get a pin! We'll let you know when we've run out. And don't worry, even if we run out of pins after you've mailed us your envelope, we'll still send you something fun back in it!

Skull-A-Day Press: 1-800-Recycling.com

The folks at 1-800-Recycling.com put together a nice article about the Skull of Brains I made last year at the Mütter Museum...

Read the entire piece HERE.