Permanently show your love for Cincinnati with a CincyInk tattoo

During Midpoint Music Festival, people were asked to share what they love about Cincinnati. Now that MPMF is over, postcards will be available throughout the city for more input.
 
Thousands of entries are expected, and each message will inspire the creation of a love poem for Cincinnati, which is being coordinated by Chase Public, a Northside-based collaborative art and assembly space. The finished poem will be shared with the city in December.
 
The campaign, called CincyInk, will serve as the centerpiece of The Cincinnati Tattoo Project. As part of the project, 200 people will get tattoos of words and phrases from the poem. Tattoo artists Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova, who were behind similar projects in Lexington and Boulder, will design each of the tattoos.
 
The tattoos will only be produced once, and each tattoo will be different. The tattoos will feature one to five words from the poem in a simple black serif font, and will be surrounded by a motif of “^,” which represents Cincinnati’s hills and valleys.
 
The Cincinnati Tattoo Project is free, but if you want to secure your chance to receive a CincyInk tattoo, you can underwrite a stanza of the poem for a monetary donation to the project. Once the poem is finished, underwriters will be able to choose their tattoo. Act fast because there are only 20 Get Inked; Give Ink sponsorships available.
 
Gohde and Kremena will also create a video that will feature a reading of the CincyInk poem, as well as images of each of the 200 tattoos that were inspired by the poem. The video will be shared with the community at the CincyInk celebration next October.
 
If you’re interested in a CincyInk tattoo, contact [email protected] or visit the CincyInk website.
 
And if you love Cincinnati but permanent tattoos aren’t for you, you can pick up a package of temporary tattoos here. The tattoos, which were designed by Artworks youth Apprentices, feature images of what make Cincinnati famous, including Graeter’s and the Cincinnati Zoo. Tattoo packages are $14.95, and all proceeds benefit the ArtWorks youth Apprentice Program.