Sunday, December 20, 2009

Tattoo Maven "Shanghai Kate" Returns to NYC Tattoo Convention

Shanghai Kate, the boom artisan with audience that includes Howard Stern and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, will be tattooing by adjustment alone at the NYC Tattoo Convention

NEW YORK -- Tattoo artist, fable and columnist “Shanghai” Kate Hellenbrand, NYC Tattoo Convention in the Roseland Ballroom, Kate will be tattooing on the assemblage floor, but accessories are recommended due to a top akin of absorption in Shanghai Kate’s allegorical tattoo work.

Hellenbrand was one of the aboriginal tattoo artists arrive to accompany the show’s countdown accident in 1998. This year’s agenda includes of over 150 artists and vendors who appear from all over the apple to plan at this activating convention, and abounding just to accommodated Shanghai Kate. Celebrating its ninth year, the NYC Tattoo Convention offers a agrarian array of sideshow performers, tattooing by acclaimed artists, accouterment and accessories with boom capacity and ceaseless beheld thrills.

I was so abutting to that tragedy, I was listed as a victim I anticipate the apple of her plan and would acclaim her to anyone. Shanghai Kate developed a cogent audience and ancestors of accompany on the East Coast. She spent two decades of her career in and about New York, assuredly managing Sacred Tattoo on West Broadway and Canal -- the country's better boom boutique -- until the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11 prompted her to backpack to Buffalo, NY. "I was so abutting to that tragedy, I was listed as a victim," Hellenbrand says.

Hellenbrand’s audience includes Howard Stern. "I adulation Kate," raved Stern on his CBS radio appearance afterwards their session. "I anticipate the apple of her plan and would acclaim her to anyone." Other celebrity audience cover Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Casey Affleck and assorted added models, actors, musicians, and New York City personalities.

Hellenbrand has one of the longest and a lot of enviable resumes in the boom world. She began tattooing afterwards co-producing the battleground show: "Tattoo!" in 1971 at NYC's Museum of American Folk Art. Shortly thereafter she begin herself in Hawaii, alive with Sailor Jerry Collins -- now one of the a lot of accustomed names in the boom field. Kate's full-blooded aswell includes alive with the actual top artists of her field: Ed Hardy, Zeke Owen, Jack Rudy, Bill Funk and Trevor Marshall.

FACTS

Who: Shanghai Kate Hellenbrand

What: New York City Tattoo Convention
http://www.nyctattooconvention.com/

Where: Roseland Ballroom, 239 West 52nd Street, New York City, NY

When: May 19-21
Fri. 19: 4pm - 12am
Sat. 20: 12pm - 12am
Sun. 21: 12pm - 8pm

Contact: 716-310-2529 (call to set an appointment)

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