Tattoos and the Tales They Tell

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Courtesy of Delray Beach Public Library

Stories on the Skin Part 1

What story does your tattoo tell?

This two-part program explores the idea of tattoos as books on the body. The focus is on the visual medium, the tattoo, and the interpretation of the story it tells that offers a deeper understanding of the artful presentation of the self to the world on the "pages" of the body. FAU Associate Professor of Art History, Karen J. Leader will show slides and clips from a multi-year creative collaboration to collect, interpret, and perform tattoo stories and will talk about the popularity of tattoos across ages and cultures.

Free; please register online at www.delraylibrary.org/classes-category/Humanities/

This program is provided by: American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.