Sevencities Tattoo Co. is not only home for some local tattooers, but it also serves as the first tattoo shop at the oceanfront in Virginia Beach. Mike Vazquez has made it his personal point to uplift the careers of others and gave a start to many. This shop is more than somewhere to work for us; it’s our clients' decompression when they get none, it’s a safe space to learn, it’s a pillar of representation for the working artist. Sevencities has always been community-oriented and now, we ask our community to help us in a time of need after a shop fire. Not only will the shop require expensive repairs, but our artists also lost hundreds of dollars in supplies. Machines alone are expensive, and today multiple artists lost their ability to do what they love. Anything helps us get back to tattooing and serving the community.

I, Corinna, will be withdrawing funds on behalf of the 7 artists, splitting the funds that come in for bare essentials for getting back to work, and the rest will go toward rebuilding the shop.