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Proving the city was ready for a new tattoo convention, visitors
were amazed by the sites and sounds of the Old School Tattoo
Expo last November. Filled with gargoyles, a one-ring circus, a
movie theater, a five-story slide, and other items salvaged from demolished
buildings, the St. Louis City Museum proved to be a festive setting for the fire
dancers from the carnival sideshow and, of course, the working artists.
Old school and new school alike celebrated the induction of two very
special individuals into the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Museum's Tattoo Hall of Fame
– globetrotting tattoo artists Gus Wagner (1872-1941) and '60s Australian tattoo
icon Bev "Cindy Ray" Robinson. Robinson and her adoring fans went on
to have a huge barbeque feast to celebrate the honor, where there was no
shortage of stories, pictures and beer. Guests also enjoyed a huge historical
display, contests, seminars, and a tattoo film festival. Sounds like the Old School
Tattoo Expo was a lot of fun and a great success.
Scheduled for Nov. 9-12 at the same, a few more surprises are already
scheduled for this year's event.
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 Tattoo artist and historian Lyle Tuttle tattoos
his signature on Lucas Hendrickx,
a tattoo
artist from Spain. |
 Bev "Cindy Ray" Robinson, Australian
tattoo
artist and guest of honor of the
expo. She is
tattooing her signature on
tattoo artist
Sharon Brouce. |
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 Lacey Krummel's tattoo by
Chuck Shredell. |
 Sarah Frein's tattoos by Robbie
Lopez of Whispering Danny's
Exile Tattoos. |
 Timothy Strzolech's tattoo
by
Rich Fisher. |
 Gladerial Stoss' tattoo by
Laszlo
Barath. |
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 All the top winners of Saturday's tattoo contest. |
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 The Goshen Coffee Co.
designed a special
"Tattoo
Blend" coffee for the expo. All
artists received
a "bottomless"
mug that gave them free coffee
throughout weekend. |
 Debbra McDonald from Imp Ink. |
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| The art exhibit Beyond the Skin: The Other Art of Tattooing, sponsored and organized
by the Old School Tattoo Expo. This show ran for two months, before and after the tattoo
expo, in a "real" gallery called the 3rd Floor Gallery on Washington Street.
Five pieces of art were sold during this exhibit. |
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