With a lifetime of achievements under her belt, artist, sculptor, writer, and fashion connoisseur Barbara Chase-Riboud started her impactful and passionate career at the age of fifteen years old, selling her first novel titled “Reba" in 1955 to the Museum of Modern Art. At the age of 83, Chase-Riboud’s work is celebrated as she is named one of the very few Black Americans awarded France’s highest order of merit, the Légion d’honneur. This is an award Chase-Riboud dreamed about since she was young and dreaming of a life within the art world. 

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Throughout the history of humankind, people have been marking their skin with ink tattoos, and for thousands of years, these pieces of art on human canvases have served many different purposes. At the Atlanta tattoo festival, I learned that tattoos are a beautiful means of community and connection. As someone without tattoos, I dove “skin first” into an unknown territory.

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