ROTTERDAM Tattoo Learning Center draws students from around the world State-licensed facility provides first scholarship Gazette Reporter
Crispus Kaitaita grew up fascinated by the ornate body art he’d see in American culture. The 19-year-old Ugandan native saw plenty of examples in the rap videos and movies that trickled into the destitute East African nation from people who traveled abroad. He even gave himself a small tattoo — a small tribal clef on his right hand. “I wanted to do it, too,” he recalled Monday. But tattoo parlors are scarce in Uganda and even if they weren’t, chances are pretty good he would have never found an apprenticeship. Even in the United States there aren’t a lot of artists that are willing to take enterprising students under their tutelage, Kaitaita found when his family immigrated to Chicago in 2007. During his search, however, he came across a place called the Tattoo Learning Center in Rotterdam. He started a dialogue with owners, Lisa Fasulo and Jeff Looman, pledging to one day earn enough money to attend the training. Fasulo and Looman had a better idea: They’d offer him a scholarship. Kaitaita is the first student to receive a tuition-paid education at the center, which was established in 2003 and moved to its location on Curry Road in 2007. The business is the only state Department of Education-licensed tattoo training facility in New York and among a handful of schools in the country. The school is rare enough that it regularly draws students from around the country and around the globe. Fasulo said she’s drawn prospective tattoo artists from Iceland to Indonesia, and every U.S. state except Alaska. .....................................>>>>...................>>>>..........http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01102&AppName=1
Congrats to these folks. And although I am not a lover of 'ornate body art', these folks are a prime example of what capitalism is. They saw a need and elaborated on it. They have a business that is being sought after globally. Good for them.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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