Perfil - Miya Bailey

Based in Atlanta, GA, Bailey's got a style all his own and a rabid fan base. He's also vocal about his tattoo history, recently teaming with Artemis Jenkins to produce the documentary Color Outside The Lines chronicling the history of black tattoo artists.
While having made Atlanta, GA his home, he gained an almost impossible apprenticeship and began to fine tune his skin art skills, thanks to Julia Alfonso. It wasn’t long after that he and Tuki Carter opened a revolutionary tattoo shop called City Of Ink. It immediately stood out from the rest of the thousands of cultured tattoo shops around the country by doing something rare—being minority owned. City Of Ink artists also dared to break the mold by mastering the use of color ink on all skin colors. By having representation from every aspect of art to include painting/graffiti, music, and fashion, their shop quickly grew to be a home for an entire culture, rather than just ink.
The success of establishing a historical monument in art culture may be more than enough of an accomplishment for some, Miya sees no limits. He’s devoted to educating. He’s known to do Q&A on twitter and answer every single question. He often challenges his social media followers to learn about other artists as well. After having travelled and tattooed across the world, Miya saw fit to create a documentary film to capture the history, struggles, and triumphs of the African-American tattoo community. He put his all into creating Color Outside The Lines. Countless trips, phone calls, and editing went into making his dream of educating the masses come to life. By developing a successful memoir for the exhausting path he and so many others like him had to bear to make his passion his career, Miya Bailey dares all to appreciate him and his art while he’s still alive.

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