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JUNE 2, 2016
TATTOOS COLLEGE MUSEUM EXPLORES IMPACT OF JAPANESE STYLE
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ver been secretly enticed by the art of tattooing? Do you want to know how it’s done and why anyone would want to spend thousands of dollars and months, if not years, under a needle to have elaborate and exotic tattoos cover much of their bodies? A new exhibit at Middlebury College, opening on June 10, provides a glimpse into Japanese-style tattooing and how it has MRǼYIRGIH XLI QSHIVR world. Included as part of the two-month exhibit is a live demonstration of tattoo artist Nakona MacDonald PHOTO/KIP FULBECK
working on large dragon on a client’s back. See this art in action on July 9 at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. That’s bringing art to life! What’s compelling about the exhibit, “Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World,” is the intricacy of the art combined with “an exploration of the artistry of traditional
Japanese sleeve and bodysuit tattoos along with its rich history ERH MRǼYIRGI SR QSHIVR XEXXSS practices.” Dr. Sarah Laursen, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Curator of Asian Art at Middlebury College, brought the exhibit to the Middlebury College museum after seeing the show two years ago on a trip to Los Angeles.
“I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING TO BRING TO VERMONT ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH A TATTOOED POPULATION.”
have full sleeve tattoos, so the show piqued my interest,” she explained. The morning she attended the show, there was a group forming at the door, and so she tacked on. Turns out both of the exhibit organizers, curator/ tattoo artist Takahiro Kitamura and photographer/designer Kip Fulbeck, were in that group and she convinced the two to bring
— Dr. Sarah Laursen
“Both my brothers-in-law
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