We LOVE that our long-time employee, friend, and tattoo artist Jamie Grav has launched his own business, Surly Goat Tattoo & Piercing, and plans to stay in the same location! Jamie is putting on another hat = business owner. It has fulfilled its mission! BUT DON'T PANIC! KEEP READING! This is a very intentional and thorough decision, in the works for 3 or 4 years. Masks may or may not be requested while you're in the shop (depending on the latest situation of Covid and the General Crud that floats around.)Īfter nearly 15 years, we have decided to discontinue Wild Idea Tattoo & Piercing.
We will honor your health by doing the same.
If you're not feeling well, please don't come to your appointment. īODY PIERCING is offered at our friend shop or call (605) 510-7244. If you're traveling a distance and need some ideas about what your family and friends can do while you're with us for your appointment, check out. We appreciate just you showing up for your appointment, so we can focus our attention on YOU. OUR STUDIO is focusing on YOU at this time. Published as “An Oasis of Ink” in the September 2022 issue of Philadelphia magazine.TWENTY-ONE YEARS in the tattoo business has certainly taught us a few things! We look forward to continuing to create awesome body art for you, as well as hand-made tie-dye, medallic art, and jewelry by Matt Thrash.ģ223 West Main Street, Rapid City, SD. And in semi-apocalyptic times like these, reclaiming my body in the face of my fears had lifted some weight off my shoulders. This funny little imp gave me a moment of levity I didn’t know I’d needed. Above my left elbow sat a frog-like creature in a pointed hat with smoke billowing from the top. When I looked in the full-length mirror, I realized I’d eradicated the knot of self-doubt, grief and stress that had been building up inside me for the past two years. Harvi spoke about wanting her clients to feel welcome and safe, not like they have to “earn” the ink.Īnd suddenly, it was over. We talked a lot in the next hour and a half - about our hometowns, dating, previous jobs. I’d spent days imagining having to sit perfectly still through sensations so agonizing that I wouldn’t be able to think in fact, the gun felt more like a scratch. rolled around, I was facedown in the hot seat.
#LIVING ART TATTOO STUDIO FULL#
She directed me to an ornately decorated sitting area where her flash book full of teeth, pin-up girls and 16th-century ghouls sat on an antique table. A bell jingled when I opened the door and caught the attention of Marcella Harvi, that week’s artist accepting walk-ins. I think I saw the beginnings of it firsthand.Īfter months of Insta-stalking, I built up the courage to visit Now and Forever. Oreto believes this wave will drastically change the industry within five years. A quick scroll through the Instagram tag “#girlswhoink” reveals places like Black Rose Ink and I Am Art Tattoo & Piercing, a shop with all artists and piercers of color. The number of woman-owned and femme-friendly tattoo shops is growing nationwide, but particularly in Philly. I have young ladies that tried to get apprenticeships and couldn’t … or need a safe place to work.” “I wanted to create an atmosphere that wasn’t really masculine but was still true to old-school tattoo shops,” Oreto says. Owner Kristel Oreto describes the studio, with its flamingo pink walls, as a “lady tattooer collective,” though it’s more like an oasis in what can be an otherwise unwelcoming field. Still, for years, I didn’t dare enter any of Philly’s shops to put my trust in a stranger.īut at Now and Forever Tattoo, it’s easy to trust, for both the clients as well as the women and non-binary artists who practice there. I did feel that a tattoo was necessary - not only as a statement that my body is mine and mine alone, but out of love for art. Dentists’ appointments, blood tests, making small talk - these were necessary but agonizing things. Those parts of adulthood that involve subjecting myself to pain, mental or physical, terrified me. My brothers came home bearing tattoos within months of going to college, but I didn’t share their cavalier attitude. Now and Forever Tattoo shop owner Kristel Oreto / Photograph by Gene Smirnovīody modification was a coming-of-age tradition in my household.
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