About 2,000 people visited the Villain Arts Tattoo Festival last weekend for body art and entertainment.
Samantha Martin, of Homer, is tattooed by Palmer artist Chad Freer at the Anchorage Tattoo Arts Festival, hosted by Villain Arts last weekend at the Egan Center.
In the 1920s, Timpel said, tattoo artists lacked their own shops, and instead found clientele and community at the circus. Timpel — who wore a leather blazer and had geometric-print ink peeking through the hair on his partially shaved head — said the eclectic nature of tattoo artists is still what binds together the community.Caitlynn Ralston has magpies and the coordinates of Hatcher Pass tattooed on her forearm by artist Victoria Cabral of Windham, Maine, at the Anchorage Tattoo Arts Festival.
Caitlynn Ralston has magpies and the coordinates of Hatcher Pass tattooed on her forearm by artist Victoria Cabral of Windham, Maine, at the Anchorage Tattoo Arts Festival at the Egan Center on Oct. 11. Ralston said she stayed at the Hatcher Pass Lodge for more than two months when an avalanche shut down the road to it in 2022. Other visitors came to the convention to get new art from their favorite local artists.
“When he’s needling me, he’s putting his intention and his artwork into me,” Barnes said of Slaton. “So knowing him and liking him as a person is important.”
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