Vote for tattoo artist Amy Black’s CBS6 Instagram takeover
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Posted at 10:46 AM, Aug 09, 2016
and last updated2016-08-09 10:47:02-04
RICHMOND, Va. — Every Tuesday this summer, we invite one of our friends to takeover the CBS6 Instagram account and share their world with you. This week tattoo artist Amy Black is taking over. You can see all the others here.
Amy is hosting Tibetan Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery for a special event this week, that starts on August 10. She will be showing them around town today.
They are here to build a beautiful sand mandala that will be deconstructed and taken to the James River afterward.
Amy, a practicing Buddhist, brings many things to our community.
She began tattooing in 2000 and now owns the studio where she started. She has won Style Weekly’s “Best Tattoo Artist” Reader’s Poll for five years and received recognition from many other publications
From her studio, she also operates the Pink Ink Fund. In 2011, Amy began working in another field of tattooing known as “nipple and areola repigmentation” or “mastectomy tattooing” as a part of breast reconstruction for patients post mastectomy due to breast cancer or BRCA diagnosis.
Please, welcome Amy to our #CBS6TakeoverTuesday!
At the end of the summer contest you vote for who had the best takeover and we donate $200 to their charity of choice. Amy has chosen the Pink Ink Fund.
AUG 10th : OPENING CEREMONY 12 noon:chanting and laying out the mandala, don’t miss this amazing event!
Then creation of the mandala will happen until 6pm**6pm public mediation with chanting
AUG 11th : 10am-6pm making the sand mandala**includes 6-6:20pm public meditation with the monks!
7pm: public lecture on meditation ($10 suggested donation per person please)
*A separate lecture on “Symbolism of the Mandala” is also happening with day/time to be announced soon!
AUG 12th : 10am-6pm making the sand mandala**includes 6-6:20pm public mediation with the monks!
AUG 13th : 10am-6pm making the sand mandala**includes 6-6:20pm public meditation with the monks!
*2pm: public lecture on “Symbolism of the Mandala”($10 suggested donation per person please)
AUG 14th : 10am-12 noon finishing the mandala
1pm : CLOSING CEREMONY beautiful chanting and dissolution of the entire mandala, small packets of the sand will be handed out to the audience *we cannot guarantee all attendees will get sand we will do our best!* then the remaining sand will be deposited into the James or Canal Walk 20-30 minutes after the closing at the museum-this is an awesome part of the ceremony where all the positive blessings of the event are sent out to the world!
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