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Tattoo you: Visionary fest raises awareness of art form

When the Visionary Tattoo Arts Festival makes its mark in Asbury Park this weekend (July 30 through Aug. 1), the event's managing partner, Jon Lane, hopes it will be a learning experience for all in attendance.

Visionary tattoo fest raises awareness of art form

One of the artists in attendance will be Randy Prause, owner and operator of Permanent Buzz Tattoo in Denville. Prause, a Paterson native who lives in Rockaway and has been in the tattoo business for 12 years, said he's expecting a busy weekend at the festival in Asbury Park.

Tattoo Arts Festival in Asbury Park

The Visionary Tattoo Fest wants to raises awareness that they are artists - all 150 of them - not low-brow hacks.

Video: Taiwan Fights Tattoo Stereotypes

Tattoos have only recently started to gain public acceptance in Taiwan. The island hosted its first international tattoo convention to help promote tattoos as body art and not the mark of the underworld.

Experiments in body art: Crowdsourcing a tattoo

A crowdsourced tattoo could have been a brave art experiment but did contradictory priorities make this project wide of the mark, asks Kat Austen