Observe ancestral skin marking live at the Museum of Vancouver July 16th through 19th. This tattoo demonstration will be an intimate experience that Museum visitors are invited to observe on a drop-in basis.
Dion Kaszas, the co-curator and one of the artists featured in True Tribal: Contemporary Expressions of Ancestral Tattoo Practices, will be tattooing three clients over the course of four days in the gallery. The clients will receive large-scale blackwork pieces inspired by Dion’s ancestral Nlaka’pamux visual language.
The demonstration is free to observe with the cost of admission to the Museum. Please note that although this is a public program in our galleries, we ask you to be respectful of the artist and his clients.
Date: Tuesday-Friday, July 16-19, 2024
Time: Tattooing will begin at 10:00am each day. End time will be determined by the clients’ capacity.
Tickets: Free with admission to the Museum.
tattoo artist & skin marker
Dion Kaszas is a Hungarian, Métis and Nlaka’pamux ancestral skin marker, podcaster and born-again Coyote. He has been at the forefront of reviving Indigenous tattooing in Canada—training, mentoring, and teaching the next wave of Indigenous revivalists. He specializes in large-scale blackwork projects inspired by his ancestral visual language.