Shelly Dax

I’m Shelly Dax, an artist, writer, teacher, tattooer and fierce Pollyanna! This means I’m a feisty, audacious rebel who ALSO intensely loves positive thinking and spreading encouragement! I believe in being radically authentic, fulfilling your creative spirit, and doing your life with outrageous joy. I’m a true renaissance girl–I ADORE all things artistic. Sang my first solo at age five and wrote my first story at age nine. I was bit by the artsy bug. My childhood was filled with artistic endeavors, from plays to ceramics to choir to poetry--my salvation from poverty and dysfunction! I also spent more than 12 years working in theatre; acting, directing, singing, writing and teaching BEFORE getting licensed as a tattoo artist and opening my own tattoo studio. I’m a successful tattoo & graphic design studio owner since 2006 and I’ve been teaching tattoo since 2011. I write. I draw. I paint. I teach. I sing. I cook. I play. I’m here because I’ve challenged myself to be brave and offer my creative gifts out to the universe. No holds barred. No hiding behind excuses, fear or “what will they think”? (who are “they” anyway?) Doing things “by the book” was never my way. So, we can choose to play it small or live large and make our damn art already! No more excuses. I’m writing to encourage the creative misfits, unyielding dreamers and gutsy rulebreakers. And to anyone who says, “what the hell does she think she’s doing now!?” or “She can’t do that!” I smile sweetly and say very politely: go make your own freakn art Create-Illuminate-Connect, Shelly Dax