Chicano tattooing has an undeniable power in American imagery. “I feel like how far it’s gained traction shows how popular and accepted Chicano culture has grown across the country and globally,” says ...

Chuco Moreno wants people to enjoy his art and Chicano tattooing. People use the term “Chicano style” to describe a wide range of black and gray tattoos these days, but as someone who grew up in the ...

Tattoo tales are being told and their local origins explored at the Museum of Latin American Art through a new exhibition called “Ink: Stories on Skin.” The recently-opened exhibit runs through ...

Like ink permanently marked into skin, the Museum of Latin American Art is making sure Long Beach and Los Angeles’ contributions to tattoo culture are forever etched into history with a new exhibition ...

When Johnny Quintana first started filling in as a tattoo artist, many of his peers were still at the age where the most important art they saw was in comic books and cartoons. But as the younger ...

Tattoos are no longer taboo. According to a Harris poll, about half of American Millennials say they have at least one, and so do a third of Gen Xers. Once you have one, data show, you'll get more.

Mister Cartoon is used to getting a lot of stares whenever he drives down the road, and it’s not just because he’s a world-famous tattoo artist. The looks he gets on the streets are mostly because of ...

Artist John Valadez stands amid Chicano youths, middle-aged Latinas and blacks rushing to a bus stop near 4th Street and Broadway. A camera hangs from his neck; his concentration is focused on an ...

View the full episode transcript. Miguel “Bounce” Perez is a visual artist who owes a lot of his talents to childhood memories with his family. His mother introduced him to sketching, as she’d draw ...

Saturday was a red-letter day for the history of art in Southern California. On June 18, the Riverside Art Museum opened its Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in a handsomely renovated, ...

Tattoo tales are being told and their local origins explored at the Museum of Latin American Art through a new exhibition called “Ink: Stories on Skin.” The recently-opened exhibit runs through ...