Rich Stremme

Last Friday, in seminar we had multi-talented artist Rich Stremme join a zoom call with us to talk about the history of tattooing as well as share his personal experience with tattooing from back in the day. Whilst listening to his presentation we were creating our own graffiti art on paper as well which was a nice addition. All in all listening to his presentation was very insightful and I was able to learn a lot about the history of tattoos and shaped my idea on tattooing and the art of it. I always wanted to get. tattoos of my own in the near future and this only made me more interested in getting them. Hearing his passion and his severe interest on the topic on tattooing made it just 100x more interesting. Everything from learning about the pirates and how they would share appreciation for cultures through stick and poke tattoos, to learning about the mechanics of the first tattooing machines and comparing them to modern ones, to learning about his experiences with seeing how tattoos went from being a strict gang practice to being accepted within all of society was really fascinating. Learning about this made me more appreciative of the art of tattoos and hopefully I can get my first one soon.