Lane Events Center, 796 West 13th Avenue, Eugene, OR, United States
2025 Evergreen Educational Instructors
Matt Vaught
"No Straight Lines: Finding Success in Tattooing on Your Own Terms"
Seminar Description (for Evergreen's promo material):
In a world full of curated highlight reels, it's easy for artists to feel like they're behind-or like they're doing it wrong. In this seminar, Matt Vaught shares his journey from incarceration to international recognition, and breaks down the real tools that helped him get there. Through storytelling, visual breakdowns, and hard-earned insights, Matt explores the mindset, mechanics, and meaning behind what it really takes to build a career in tattooing today. This session is designed for established artists looking to reconnect with their passion, sharpen their craft, and redefine success on their own terms.
Aaron Riddle
Neotraditional techniques and design: understanding how to create foreward thinking compositions efficiently. A tattooer’s guide to both technical application and layout. We will dive into the framework for laying out large scale neotraditional tattooing as well as the synthesis of styles required to make original compositions. Personal Techniques for efficient tattooing will be discussed as well.
Please bring your iPads and a sketchbook.
Nick Baxter
In Nick Baxter's Art Of Layering seminar, the 26 year tattooer and artist presents a methodical, scientific approach to formulating successful multi-session tattoo strategies for large scale or complex designs. Nick's approach aims to shake tattooists free of rigid and limiting mindsets by presenting the tattoo process in a big picture context, in which any tattooer can find their own unique solutions regardless of genre or style.
In this class, advanced layering techniques are explained as solutions to many of the complex challenges tattooers face while executing large multi-session pieces. If you’ve ever felt lost or intimidated by coverups or tackling large work, or are simply looking to add more techniques to your repertoire, this is the seminar for you. It is designed to help you see the tattoo application process in a new way, full of options and logical choices which create efficient workflows and lead to healed results not achievable in single-pass techniques.
This approximately 2 hour seminar features a lecture with slide presentation, followed by a brief Q & A.
Pete Carreno
Pete Carreno is a 20 year veteran tattoo artist and 35 year tattoo collector that knows what it takes for composition and longevity of large scale tattoos. Having traveled the world and working alongside some of the top tattoo artists in the industry, take this opportunity to learn from his experiences as he walks you through his entire process of what will make your tattoos stand the true test of time. Easily identifiable from a distance, leaving room to breathe and grow with the skin, Pete's tattoos will hold up and still maintain detail throughout the decades. Nowadays , when most tattooers are focused on making a tattoo that they can photograph and post to social media immediately for the likes and the fresh look. Pete will explain why the tattoo is not completed until it is fully healed, and how that tattoo will age and look in 30 to 40+ years.
