![]() ![]() PASADENA-You don't have to be covered in them to appreciate the artistry behind tattoos, and this weekend's 2016 Golden State Tattoo Expo at the Pasadena Convention Center (300 E Green Street) will give you ample opportunity to meet some of SoCal's inked superstars. ![]() The tea service and mini sandwich menu can be found here. ![]() ![]() This Saturday, as part of Museums Free-For-All, Descanso will offer free admission to its Camellia and Tea Festival, where you can sample teas at the 10am-2pm Chado Tea tasting, take the kiddos on a guided walk of the camellia flower collection (with some hands-on art activities), and enjoy a full outdoor Japanese tea service until 4pm. This weekend, make a trip up to enjoy the oak forests and greenery, which are preserved to demonstrate the state of the LA basin before European contact. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.ĮAGLE ROCK-Venture off the beaten path to La Cañada Flintridge, where you'll find a botanical oasis ready for exploration at Descanso Gardens (1418 Descanso Drive). The archives will remain available here for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. Individuals may not eat, drink, smoke, or vape while in the tattoo booth or while moving through the event.Racked is no longer publishing. Masks may only be removed while actively eating or drinking, when seated at a designated table, or standing at a stationary counter. Masks are required, regardless of vaccination status, at all times while indoors. Individuals can provide a vaccination card, a copy of a vaccination card, a vaccination record from a health care provider, a digital vaccination record, or a digital or printed lab result for a PCR or antigen test that indicates a negative result. The Pasadena Convention Center requires proof of full vaccination or a negative test result within 17 hours as a condition of entry. on Sunday.Ī weekend ticket costs $60, and daily tickets are $30. to 12 midnight on Friday, 12 noon to 12 midnight on Saturday, and 12 to 7 p.m. The Expo will feature live tattooing, an art gallery with live arts going on, tattoo contests throughout the day, sideshows, and other acts.Īside from getting tattooed, visitors to the Expo can shop for original art, jewelry and fashion, take tattoo seminars, and shop for the newest in tattooing innovations. So it’s an opportunity to get tattooed by an artist you would normally not be able to get tattooed by. “We checked their portfolios and we put them together in one place. “It’s unique that only the best artists in the world can get in,” Ceritelli said. The expo usually is scheduled in January, but COVID-19 restrictions this year delayed it by several months.Ĭeritelli said anyone who wants to get a tattoo done can choose among the many artists arriving at the Expo, among them Peruvian-born Stefano Alcantara who had his own studio in New York Pony Lawson, founder and CEO of MayDay Tattoo Company in Chicago Jess Yen, creator of My Tattoo Family, with studios in Alhambra and Huntington Beach and Michael Hussar, who’s known for his surrealist horror art tattoos and does oil paintings as well. Torres works with SoCal Tattoo in San Pedro, but has his own studio, The Raven and the Wolves, which he set up in Long Beach in 2017. Hurtado is the founder of the Hesperia-based tattoo shop Black Anchor Collective. Hurtado and Torres are both well-known artists in California and have been collaborating with Marco Ceritelli, the organizer, for the past five years. Hosted by two local “tattoo celebrities,” Carlos Torres and Nikko Hurtado, the features live tattooing, an art gallery with live arts going on, tattoo contests throughout the day, sideshows, burlesque acts, and a beauty contest on Saturday. Scores of tattoo artists will inking their way through the final day of the Golden State Tattoo Expo Sunday being held for the sixth time at the Pasadena Convention Center Friday through Sunday. ![]()
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