Please fill out the below information to attend ‘Tattooing Finds You:’ How Tattooists Navigate their World with Dr. David C. Lane,  assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University, on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. in the Governor Fifer Courtroom at the McLean County Museum of History.

Have you ever wondered how tattooists learn to do their jobs, how their careers advance, or what they contend with in order to create tattoos? Tattooists have to navigate the world of work. In this presentation, David C. Lane will take you on a journey about how the contemporary tattoo world operates. Using vivid firsthand accounts from tattooists, and an art worlds perspective, this program will discuss the how these workers pursue meaningful labor. This discussion will explain the methods of learning to work, the hierarchy among tattooists, the mechanisms for maintaining social control, and how tattooists manage changes that threaten their control. Underlying these descriptions is an emphasis on the collective social processes needed to make art worlds operate. Ultimately, and as Lane argues, tattooists have created and sustained an art world that relies on an anachronistic model of organizing labor. Join us and have some fun.  

PLEASE NOTE: The Museum follows all current local, state, and CDC health and safety guidelines.

Registration is required to attend and capacity for this event is limited to 75 people.

If you are exhibiting any symptoms or have a temperature above 100.4 degrees, please do not attend this event.
 
Face masks are recommended but not required for this program.

If Covid 19 cases continue to rise, guidelines become more restrictive, or our zone is forced to go back to an earlier Phase of the Restore Illinois Plan, this event will be held online only.