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Off the Map Tattoo is proud to be co-hosting the Paradise Tattoo Gathering next October 23-26th. With over 35 amazing custom tattoo artists confirmed, we have over 3,000 tattoos in the TattooGathering.com website. Joe Capobianco, Nick Baxter, and Carson Hill we're the first artists to confirm seminars, and joining them is Mike Devries and Mike Demasi who will be teaming up to run a seminar on their color theory and how it applies to portrait and realistic tattooing. Brett from Pulse International Tattoo supply will be hosting a workshop on how to make tattoo machines run perfect for you. Bring them a machine and they will diagnose and tune it for you free.
We are excited (and honored) that tickets have already been sold and rooms have been booked and appointments already confirmed 10 months ahead of the event! While things are looking up, this is our first year so any linking, or reposting, or help getting the word out there is greatly appreciated!
This unique & amazing event is scheduled to take place at this years Hell City 7 "Let it Bleed" and will continue throughout the entire festival. Participating artists will arrive Tuesday evening in order to be ready for a full two day private art jam on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday morning all work will be moved to the Hell City Special Events room to begin the live performance part of the Innerstate project. We anticipate this to be a memorable weekend and a mark in art history. Participants have been selected. The 40 participating artists are a hand-picked list of tattoo artists who are known for their unique vision and technical command of working with another medium outside of tattooing. The goal is to produce a dynamic and fresh body of artwork over a 5-day period for use in a book and DVD documentary.
Innerstate will be an uninterrupted art jamming exhibition alongside some of the industry's finest! The artwork will be done as a live performance, with the crowd from the convention floor filtering through the Special Events room throughout the weekend. This room gets a lot of traffic from the main convention and will be an energetic environment. All completed pieces will be on display, and all artists who are still at work will have their easels arranged through the room to create a dynamic performance environment. Hell City is very excited to have well-known visionary artists present during this years festivities, we believe that the tattoo community is host to a wide range of highly original visionary talents. The whole purpose of the Innerstate project is to showcase this fact.
Participating Innerstate artists will have a merchandise table in front of the Special Events room, with a dedicated seller on staff the entire time selling shirts, books, prints as well as other merchandise- especially stuff that showcases an artistic vision. Guy and Michele will be conducting short video interviews and photo sessions with all artists throughout all 5 days for the book and DVD that will be following his amazing experience.
Innerstate will be hosting a Saturday night art party with DJ's spinning music and tons of other great things going on while the artists continue developing their pieces. The big Innerstate party will be Saturday night from 9pm-2am. Come drink and mingle with all the artists and attendess that will be partying, dancing and absorbing the atmosphere!
Innerstate & Hyperspace Studios will be having an opening reception for the completed body of work on Sunday from 5pm-7pm in the special events room, after which time the floor will close. The “Roast of Chris Longo” will follow at 8pm in the Union ballroom, which should make for some very memorable entertainment, don’t either of these new events at this years Hell City Tattoo Fest! Don't miss Innerstate; a historic tattoo community art event!..
This year, I've got not one, but TWO great people helping me to curate shows for the gallery; Loren Leahy and Derek Jackson. (Wish me luck!!) Because of that we are going to do 9 art shows this year instead of just 6. We are all very excited about our schedule for this year, and we hope you all can come out for "FIRST FRIDAY"and support local art!! ("MORE INFO" coming soon...)
Friday, April 3rd;
GUILTY PLEASURES - A group show of modern Illuminated Manuscript art. Curated by Loren Leahy, and Michelle Souliere.
Runs through April.
Friday, May 1st; (*Derek may be doing the opening at another date for this show, I'll keep y'all posted)
THE FAERIE SHOW - Solo exhibit by Derek Jackson. For a very special preview of what's in store with this one, check out this video from Derek's most recent show at THE ARM FACTORY here in Portland;
Runs through May.
Friday, June 5th;
MOVIES MADE ME GAY - An artistic look at Gay cinema, curated by Derek Jackson in celebration of Pride Month
Runs through June and July.
Friday, August 7th;
OH BLACK VELVET! - Hell Yes! A huge group show of Velvet paintings? Elvis? Conquistadors? Unicorns?I'm SOOO there! Curated by Loren Leahy.
(Call to Artists! Any one wishing to participate in this show, contact "CHRIS DINGWELL".)
Runs through August.
Friday, September 4th;
LA ULTIMA VEZ - a show of snapshots, found photographs, and artwork inspired by them. Curated by Derek Jackson.
"La Ultima Vez means the last time...there's something beautiful and sad about snapshot photography...depicting birthdays that only come around once, debauchery or rites of passage...moments celebrated and doomed to fade. We hoard them on myface and spacebook...maybe get double prints with borders...but we don't cherish the actual objects...it's the moment we cling to."
(Call to Artists! Any one wishing to participate in this show, contact "CHRIS DINGWELL".)
Runs through Sept.
Friday, October 2nd;
STRANGE MAINE - Some sort of crazy group show co-sponsored, and inspired by "STRANGE MAINE"... "Freaks. Weirdos. Unmapped roads. Whispering rocks. Deadening fog. Ghost pirates. Lonely islands. THINGS in the WOODS. Home of Stephen King & Glenn Chadbourne. A place where the 4 seasons really know how to live. Maine: the way life should be!" Curated by Loren Leahy, and Michelle Souliere.
(Call to Artists! Any one wishing to participate in this show, contact "CHRIS DINGWELL".)
Runs through October.
Friday, November 6th;
*DA-DOINK!* - Yeah, you guessed it, a Chris Dingwell Solo show (they talked me into it...)
Runs through November.
Friday, December 4th;
MORE HOLIDAY MADNESS!
Runs through Dec. and Jan.
Also, coming in 2010 look out for the SPACE ODDITY Show!! (We don't even know what this is yet, but it's going to be a DOOZIE)
Who I'd like to meet: We'd like to meet anyone interesetd in getting tattooed by us, or anyone who wants to come see our Art Gallery. Call, Click, or come on by for a visit, we love company.
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