Portland Art Museum To Host Tattoo Exhibit

July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Marking Portland : The Art Of Tattoo At The Portland Art Museum
By Dan Gay
Published : June 28, 2009

PORTLAND, OR – It has been awhile since the first sailor got inked in Portland, and there’s been more than a few tattoo’s since. With a rich tattoo history and more than 120 tattoo and piercing parlors, Portland knows a thing or two about talking with your skin. The Portland Art Museum wanted those voices to be part of the conversation for their Marking Portland: the Art of Tattoo exhibition. Select images posted to their group on Flickr will be included in a presentation in the Whitsell Auditorium.

The Exhibition will explore the relationship between body adornment and group identification, and present tattoo history alongside art and artifacts from the Museum’s permanent collections. As usual, PAM has included a healthy dose of special programs and events around the exhibition, so there’s many tattoo things to do before the exhibitions closing on September 7th.

Source : Examiner.com