Stories on Skin: Tattoos and the LA Immigrant Experience

About This Project

LA County Library presents STORIES ON SKIN: TATTOOS AND THE LA IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE.

Learn about Los Angeles County’s vibrant immigrant population through the most personal of art forms: the tattoo. In a series of virtual programs with renowned tattoo artists and subject specialists, we'll explore the traditional tattoo traditions of LA County's Chicano, Black and African, and AAPI communities. While the motifs, traditions, and techniques vary from cultures to culture, tattoos have always embodied stories, memories, and cultural history. Now, we invite you to share your tattoo story with us. Submit images of your tattoo along with a written narrative of its meaning. Submissions will be reviewed and then posted on our BiblioBoard community collection.

For information and to register for our upcoming programs go to: lacountylibrary.org/stories-on-skin

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.

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Submission Guidelines

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Additional Information

Need help telling your story? Consider...

  • Does your tattoo celebrate your cultural background?
  • Is it in remembrance of a loved one?
  • Is it a design you fell in love with and needed on your body?
  • Does it represent a moment in your life?
  • Would you get this tattoo again?
File Types Accepted

JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TIF, EPUB2, EPUB3, PDF, JPG/JPEG