Date: Sep 25
In partnership with the Fine Art Society of Peoria:
September 25, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.
In partnership with Fine Arts Society of Peoria, the Peoria Riverfront Museum presents One Mark at a Time: A World Heritage of Tattooing, a talk with celebrity anthropologist Dr. Lars Krutak on September 25, 6:30 p.m. in the Peoria Riverfront Museum's Giant Screen Theater. Peoria Riverfront Museum and Fine Arts Society members attend free of charge!
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A world traveler, photographer, and anthropologist, Dr. Lars Krutak shares his 20-year journey to understand how tattoos “make” the people who wear them, as chronicled in his Discovery Channel series, Tattoo Hunter , Netflix’s Explained , and the Instagram project Patterns of Life .
In this richly illustrated talk based on his research and interviews with hundreds of Indigenous tattoo bearers and practitioners, Krutak will speak about how tattoos permanently mark cultural values, spirituality, and ancestral ties in ink on the body. He will also discuss the making of his new book Tattoo Traditions of Asia, the first single volume on the subject, published by the University of Hawai`i Press in October 2024.
Krutak is a research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and author of Tattoo Traditions of Native North America: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity and Spiritual Skin: Magical Tattoos and Scarification, among other books and publications focusing on Indigenous tattoo culture and practice. He was the senior editor of Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing, the first book dedicated to the archaeological study of tattooing.
One Mark at a Time: A World Heritage of Tattooing is sponsored by Fine Arts Society of Peoria, Friends of Art, and Illinois Arts Council.
