Workshops are back!
It’s been a while since I’ve offered either of these, and it’s important to me to teach them together. At the end of the coming month, I’ll be doing a workshop day where you can do them both back-to-back or choose one or the other to attend.
Sunday, August 27th ~ a two-session day of classes
11:00 am-1:00 pm EST ~ Intro to Trauma-Informed Tattooing
2:00-3:30 Pm EST ~ Beyond Trauma-Informed Tattooing
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I’ll be teaching the foundational Intro to Trauma-Informed Tattooing workshop in the morning and Beyond Trauma-Informed Tattooing in the afternoon, with a short lunch break in between. If you are new to these, I highly recommend both.
The suggested cost for the full day is $85, or $60 for the Intro class and $25 for the Beyond class, but all are pay what you wish. If you can pay the high end (or higher!) please do- it helps me continue to offer these and do the ongoing research in between that keeps the material current and valuable. A portion of class proceeds will be donated to We the People, an abolitionist collective and mutual aid organization in Bed-Stuy.
Find full info on classes and the registration links here.
“These two workshops, "Trauma-Informed Tattooing" and "Compassion Fatigue, Boundaries, and Burnout", are hugely informative. They serve as an inviting way to talk about trauma and secondary exposure in the realm of tattooing. Tamara takes a high level of care in offering resources, and opening a dialogue around these topics which have been disregarded for too long. Both workshops ask us in-depth questions about ourselves and our clients’ needs, and offer strategies to become more professional and better informed. I see these videos as essential to all tattooers, new and old, traditional or DIY, as we all begin to redefine industry standards and reevaluate what training is needed.” -Arielle Coupe, True Hand Society
If you’ve taken one or both of these in the past and found them valuable, please share or recommend to someone you think might like them! Word of mouth is so helpful and there’s nothing I appreciate more than a first-person referral. If you can’t make it, you can find a recorded version of the Intro class here.
Thanks for reading, and please stay cool and hydrated among these record-high temperatures. I’ve been baking under my studio skylight listening to Burn Wild, a BBC podcast about the direct action environmentalist movement of the late 90s and early 2000s.