🦋 BUTTERFLY PINNING WORKSHOP
with RIP Repurposed at Morbid Mementos
📍 Location: Morbid Mementos Oddities & Occult – Downtown Elgin, IL
📅 Date: Sunday, August 3rd
⏰ Time: 7:00–8:00 PM
💸 Cost: $70 per person
🖼 Optional Add-On: 5x5 Shadow Box – $15
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✨ What You’ll Do:
Pin up a stunning, flat, museum-quality butterfly specimen perfect for display.
Using a sustainably sourced butterfly, you’ll learn the art of professional pinning in this beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop.
All materials are provided, and you'll take home your finished butterfly at the end of class.
🧠 Skill Level: Beginner – No experience needed!
🎨 About the Instructor:
Domingo (RIP Repurposed) is a Chicanx artist and educator from Elgin, now based in Chicago.
Their work explores sustainability, preservation, and identity, especially through the lens of BIPOC and queer experience. They create ethically sourced taxidermy “queer-acions” that honor life, death, and transformation one delicate trinket at a time.
📷 @rip.repurposed
🖤 Space is limited!
To sign up or ask questions, please email Kelli directly at
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