![]() ![]() High Desert Tattoo, 222 East Elkhorn Avenue, Estes ParkĮndless Ink Tattoo, 7507 East 36th Avenue Modified Madness Tattoo, 3971 East 120th Avenue, Thornton "I think people still have a negative stigma about tattoos, and this fundraiser will really open up people's eyes and show we are one big family," Miller says. The goal is to raise $100,000, and monetary donations are also welcome. All proceeds from the fundraiser will go to the victims and their families through the Colorado Healing Fund. Inked Out Tattoo Supply is running a raffle that's $25 per chance (only tattoo shop workers and artists can enter). Some of the shops are offering their own original artwork, and Modified Madness has received prints for the fundraiser from Phoenix Tattoo Company, Access Gallery and Ink Lounge Denver. I got permission from her family to use some of those as the tattoos for that day," Miller adds. "I had seen Sarah Steck's online portfolio, and she has some artwork that would totally work as tattoos. She reached out to Cardenas's brother and Scofield's sister to access their artwork for flash. ![]() Miller posted a message about the fundraising idea in a Colorado tattoo group on Facebook, and shops immediately responded. We're enemies, but we're not enemies - you don't want your client going somewhere else, but when something like this happens, we come together." "We're a family-run business, and our four kids are at the shop with us every single day. "It shocked us and scared us," Miller continues, holding back tears. "And all of a sudden this happened, and we knew we had to do something. "In December we organized a gift drive for teenagers and collected two truckloads of gifts and hygiene items," Miller says. Husband-and-wife team Stevi Miller and Martin Sandoval of Modified Madness Tattoo in Thornton decided to organize the fundraiser shortly after the shooting. Several tattoo shops around the state are taking part in the United in Art, Doing Our Part Tattoo Fundraiser, which will include flash drawn from the work of Cardenas, Scofield and Steck, who was not a tattooer but an artist who worked at the Hyatt House as a clerk. James "Jimmy" Maldonado, a piercing artist who was married to Alyssa, and Ashley Ferris, the Lakewood police officer who shot the killer, were injured. Denver's tattoo community is coming together on Sunday, January 16, in a benefit to raise funds for the survivors and families of the victims of the December 27 killings: Alicia Cardenas, artist, activist and proprietor of Sol Tribe tattoo shop Alyssa Gunn-Maldonado, a yoga instructor who was killed at Sol Tribe Danny Scofield, a tattoo artist who was at Lucky 13 Tattoo Sarah Steck, an artist who worked at Hyatt House and Michael Swinyard. ![]()
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