Tattoos Showcased At The Portland Art Museum

July 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Event : Learn About Tattoos At The Portland Art Museum
By D.K. Row
Published : July 22, 2009

PORTLAND, OR – You’ll get to learn all about body ink this weekend at the Portland Art Museum.

For more than a month, “Marking Portland: The Art of Tattoo” has been on view at the museum, offering a kind of short history of tattoos as told through works in the museum’s permanent collection. The show’s a thin but novel project in some respects.

But the world of ink will truly get animated, so to speak, when local tattoo artists visit the museum Saturday. The art of tattoo will be explained and celebrated with fashion, music, performance and multimedia events/projects. There will even be “tributes” to some of the city’s tattoo artists.

It’s a perfect opportunity to meet these local tattoo artists and to demystify a culture that to many of us is mired in mysticism, the exotic and the subterranean. There are also special demonstrations and a three-ring floor show for those 21 and older. The floor show runs from 3 to 7 p.m. and includes “magic, fire dancing, contortionism and burlesque.” I’ll leave it to your imagination to figure out what that could possibly mean.

The event runs from noon-9 p.m. Saturday. General admission: $20 members; $25 nonmembers. Portland Art Museum, 1219 S.W. Park Ave. www.portlandartmuseum.org

Source : Oregon Live