Walking into the new storefront on Casper’s Second Street one can get a tattoo, purchase a taxidermized insect, or walk out with “wet specimen” — such as a baby rabbit preserved in a jar.

Welcome to Metalmark Studios where owner Kinzie Calvert said her shop offers a lot of ‘oddities’ in addition to her own and another artist’s tattoo work, as well as a colleague’s piercing practice.

“Oddities are really just things that are just different, that aren’t mainstream that people would normally like,” she said. “You probably don’t know too many people who would decorate with dead animals, not in like a hunting way, but like a wet specimen.”

The former Casper College criminal justice and pre-law student said she and her coworkers previously operated under a different name at another downtown l

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