By HANNAH DENHAM | The Washington Post | Published: May 18, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Keron McHugh is booked solid the next 14 months with people eager for ink and the slightest semblance of permanence. The artist was in demand even before the pandemic forced him to shutter the Cardinal Skin Art & Gallery the Mebane, N.C., tattoo studio, art gallery and community space he opened nearly four years ago so it was not unusual for his appointment book to be full months ahead. But the tattoo queries kept coming even during the shop s closure in the early stages of the coronavirus crisis, McHugh said, and it s been a nonstop wave ever since.
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Keron McHugh is booked solid the next 14 months with people eager for ink and the slightest semblance of permanence.
The artist was in demand even before the pandemic forced him to shutter the Cardinal Skin Art & Gallery the Mebane, North Carolina, tattoo studio, art gallery and community space he opened nearly four years ago so it was not unusual for his appointment book to be full months ahead. But the tattoo queries kept coming even during the shop’s closure in the early stages of the coronavirus crisis, McHugh said, and it’s been “a nonstop wave” ever since.