Tattoo like a lady: With a fake arm and an ink machine, Syracuse artist explores history of female tattooists

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May 20, 2023

Tattoo like a lady: With a fake arm and an ink machine, Syracuse artist explores history of female tattooists

Jamie Santos, owner of Three of Swords in Westcott, draws a tattoo on "Armold"

Jamie Santos, owner of Three of Swords in Westcott, draws a tattoo on "Armold" the arm at her "Tattoo Like a Lady" event at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y. Nov. 11, 2022.

The main characters of Jamie Santos’ Saturday art lecture included four of the world's pioneering female tattoo artists, and a silicon arm named "Armothy."

Santos is an artist and the owner of Westcott tattoo parlor "Three of Swords," which she runs with two other women. Sunday she packed up her tattoo machines, inks and fake arm she uses for demonstrations, and headed to the Everson Museum of Art to teach a class about early 20th century female tattoo artists.

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