Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth — the Southside cities on the harbor's south shore.
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Virginia Beach
Owner of Inkcredible Tattoo Studio. Specializes in painterly realism, color realism, black-and-grey realism, portraits, fantasy imagery, and large-scale custom tattoos, with 10+ years of professional experience.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio focused on black-and-grey realism, detailed portraits, fantastical realism, memorial pieces, and large-scale custom work.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio focused on pop-culture realism, portrait tattoos, character, cinematic, horror, animal, and tribute pieces.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio focused on anime tattoos, with additional work in vibrant color, pop-culture, black-and-grey realism, and portraits.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio working in color, black-and-grey, surrealism, pop-culture, and character artwork.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio specializing in Japanese, freehand, realism, and large-scale custom tattoos, with 14+ years of professional experience.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio specializing in blackwork and gothic imagery, with work spanning animals, florals, statues, architecture, skulls, and mythology.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Owner of Sandbridge Tattoo. Focuses on black and grey and traditional Japanese work, drawing on a background in oil painting.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Sandbridge Tattoo, raised in the Sandbridge community, whose work draws on maritime and oceanside tattooing traditions.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Sandbridge Tattoo, originally from Virginia Beach, specializing in blackwork and neo-traditional styles.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Sandbridge Tattoo partial to black-and-grey realism and dark-art surrealism, proficient across most tattoo styles. Virginia Beach native, tattooing professionally since apprenticing in Roanoke in 2012.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Sandbridge Tattoo with 26 years of tattooing experience, working collaboratively on custom pieces.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist specializing in anime, American traditional, Japanese traditional, and neo-traditional styles. His individual profile remains live on Sandbridge Tattoo's site, but as of the Phase 5A audit (2026-08-10) he is absent from the studio's current artist roster listing — his current affiliation could not be confirmed either way.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Whiskey River Tattoo, a walk-in-friendly custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Owner and founder of Studio evoLve. Tattooing since 1995, specializing in color work and large-scale pieces.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve. Enjoys illustrative, American traditional, and Japanese traditional styles, while working across many others.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve, an exclusively custom tattoo studio in Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Co-founder and owner of Salt Water Tattoo, specializing in American traditional tattoos with steady lines and bold, vivid color.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Co-founder and owner of Salt Water Tattoo, one of Virginia Beach's stylistically diverse tattoo studios.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Salt Water Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Salt Water Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Salt Water Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Norfolk Ink Gallery, a custom and walk-in-friendly tattoo and piercing studio.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Norfolk Ink Gallery, a custom and walk-in-friendly tattoo and piercing studio.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Norfolk Ink Gallery, a custom and walk-in-friendly tattoo and piercing studio.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Norfolk Ink Gallery, a custom and walk-in-friendly tattoo and piercing studio.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Valhalla Rose Tattoo and Piercing with 18 years of experience, focused on horror and script tattoos plus large color pieces.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Valhalla Rose Tattoo and Piercing specializing in blackwork and large-scale designs.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Valhalla Rose Tattoo and Piercing with expertise in black-and-grey, realism, portraits, and rock-themed work.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Apprentice tattoo artist at Valhalla Rose Tattoo and Piercing, specializing in cute-spooky designs.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Valhalla Rose Tattoo and Piercing (4 years' experience), focused on illustrative and neo-traditional styles, plus color and black-and-grey realism.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Colley Ave Tattoo, a Norfolk studio known for traditional, blackwork/dot-work, and Japanese-style tattooing.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Colley Ave Tattoo, a Norfolk studio known for traditional, blackwork/dot-work, and Japanese-style tattooing.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Colley Ave Tattoo, a Norfolk studio known for traditional, blackwork/dot-work, and Japanese-style tattooing.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Colley Ave Tattoo, a Norfolk studio known for traditional, blackwork/dot-work, and Japanese-style tattooing.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Colley Ave Tattoo, a Norfolk studio known for traditional, blackwork/dot-work, and Japanese-style tattooing.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Colley Ave Tattoo, a Norfolk studio known for traditional, blackwork/dot-work, and Japanese-style tattooing.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Tender Heart Tattoo, an LGBTQ-owned studio in Norfolk's Downtown/NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Tender Heart Tattoo, an LGBTQ-owned studio in Norfolk's Downtown/NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Tender Heart Tattoo, an LGBTQ-owned studio in Norfolk's Downtown/NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Tender Heart Tattoo, an LGBTQ-owned studio in Norfolk's Downtown/NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Tender Heart Tattoo, an LGBTQ-owned studio in Norfolk's Downtown/NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Tender Heart Tattoo, an LGBTQ-owned studio in Norfolk's Downtown/NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Tender Heart Tattoo, an LGBTQ-owned studio in Norfolk's Downtown/NEON District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Envision Tattoo Gallery with 19+ years of experience in color tattoos, black-and-grey fine line work, and cover-ups.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Envision Tattoo Gallery since 2009, specializing in watercolor work with botanical, animal, and earthy designs.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at Envision Tattoo Gallery, tattooing since 2000, specializing in black-and-grey work and bold traditional designs.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Ancient Art Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Ancient Art Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Temple Tattoo & Body Piercing Studio, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Temple Tattoo & Body Piercing Studio, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Portsmouth
Owner of Greg's Tattoos LLC in Portsmouth, also serving as Chair of the Virginia Board of Barbers and Cosmetology. Over 30 years of tattooing and airbrushing experience.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Owner and artist at Electromagnetic Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Artist at Electromagnetic Tattoo, Chesapeake, focused on line work and shading.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Artist and co-owner at Electromagnetic Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Artist at Electromagnetic Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Artist at Electromagnetic Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Artist at Electromagnetic Tattoo, Chesapeake, focused on color saturation, line work, and freehand designs.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at The Collective Tattoo & Body Piercing, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Stray Cat Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Stray Cat Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Thriller Street Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Thriller Street Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Thriller Street Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Thriller Street Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Thriller Street Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Thriller Street Tattoo, Chesapeake.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Electric Umbrella Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Electric Umbrella Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Electric Umbrella Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Electric Umbrella Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Electric Umbrella Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Electric Umbrella Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Portsmouth
Owner and artist at DNA Tattoo, Portsmouth, with 24 years of tattooing experience.
Official portfolio →Portsmouth
Tattoo artist at DNA Tattoo, Portsmouth, since 2022. Works in both color and black-and-grey, with floral, anime/manga, pin-up, dark/spooky, insect, and animal subject matter.
Official portfolio →Portsmouth
Tattoo artist at DNA Tattoo, Portsmouth. No individual bio published yet on the official site.
Official portfolio →Portsmouth
Tattoo artist at DNA Tattoo, Portsmouth. No individual bio published yet on the official site.
Official portfolio →Portsmouth
Tattoo artist at DNA Tattoo, Portsmouth. Army veteran; tattooing since 2025, working in traditional, neo-traditional, illustrative, floral, and blackwork styles.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Co-founder of Red 5 Tattoo, Virginia Beach (opened 2014).
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Co-founder of Red 5 Tattoo, Virginia Beach (opened 2014).
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Red 5 Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Red 5 Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Red 5 Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Red 5 Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Red 5 Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Tattoo artist at Red 5 Tattoo, Virginia Beach.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Commonwealth Tattoo, Norfolk.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Commonwealth Tattoo, Norfolk.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Commonwealth Tattoo, Norfolk.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Commonwealth Tattoo, Norfolk.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Commonwealth Tattoo, Norfolk.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Co-owner of Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk, with nearly 14 years of tattooing experience across Virginia and Los Angeles, focused on illustrated realism in both black and grey and color.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Co-founder (June 2022) of Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk. A Navy veteran (2013–2017) who began his tattoo apprenticeship in 2016, working in American Traditional and black and grey realism.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk, working in American Traditional, floral, and lettering.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk, working in black and grey, realism, and portraits.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk with a decade of professional experience, focused on neo-traditional, illustrative, and black and grey work, and also taking on realism, geometric, and color pieces.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Tattoo artist at Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk, originally from Yokosuka, Japan. Licensed in May 2023, specializing in Japanese traditional (Irezumi) work with bold lines and blackwork, drawing on Ukiyo-e woodblock print imagery.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Owner of Low Key Designs, a private tattoo studio in Chesapeake, specializing in color realistic tattoos.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Low Key Designs in Chesapeake, working under the name Stitch Asylum Tattoos, focused on fine line work, stipple shading, and spooky, haunting designs, with occasional color and glitter pieces.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Tattoo artist at Low Key Designs in Chesapeake, working in fantasy, dark, floral, and pop-culture-inspired designs.
Official portfolio →Portsmouth
Independent tattoo artist in Portsmouth, working from custom and meaningful/symbolic pieces to small, minimalist tattoo work.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Resident artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Resident artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Resident artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Resident artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Resident artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Resident artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Resident artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Resident artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Local associate artist at d'Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in Norfolk's NEON District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Resident artist at the Virginia Beach Art Center, a nonprofit cooperative gallery and studio space in the ViBe Creative District.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Muralist and illustrator based in the ViBe Creative District, working out of her studio, The Garage. Has completed roughly 20 murals around Virginia Beach since her 2022 debut piece for the ViBe Creative District's Mural Festival.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Illustrator behind Tiff's Inked Home in Virginia Beach, painting personality-packed animals with bold color, charming expressions, and puns, reproduced as canvas prints, framed posters, stickers, and tote bags. A mother of four who recently began pursuing art professionally.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Bronze sculptor in Virginia Beach working in the ancient lost-wax casting technique; a former Marine and retired executive who took up sculpture full-time in 1990. His bronzes are displayed at institutions including the U.S. Naval Academy and the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Co-founder of SuperCompStudios, a Norfolk print-making, illustration, and graphic design studio, specializing in wood carvings, branding, and gig-posters.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Co-founder of SuperCompStudios, a Norfolk print-making, illustration, and graphic design studio, specializing in wood carvings, branding, and gig-posters.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Painter, illustrator, and sculptor with nearly thirty years' practice, educated at Tidewater Community College (Fine Arts). Known for eleven mermaid sculptures designed for the City of Norfolk's 1999 "Mermaids on Parade" project, several sculptures in Chesapeake's Blue Heron Waterway Gallery, and a commissioned mural at the Great Bridge Shopping Center, alongside ongoing original paintings, drawings, and private commissions.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Portrait painter in oil, a 2006 William & Mary Art and English graduate who returned to painting as a focused practice in 2023. Work has been recognized in Figure, Portrait, and Open competitions. Held his first solo exhibit, "Face Value," at Art Central Gallery (Phoebus, Hampton) in 2025, and participated in "TenFold," a group show by the Contemporary Arts Network (Newport News).
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach muralist and sign painter creating custom hand-painted large wall murals, window paintings, corporate logos, and commercial advertising signs across Hampton Roads. Works include Portsmouth's "Commodore James Barron" mural, a memorial mural for Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, and a 2020 tribute mural to front-line pandemic workers on the Blue Marlin Motel.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Owner of Benevolent Design Co., a Virginia Beach custom furniture and cabinetry maker operating since 2013, specializing in old-growth and reclaimed lumber for residential and commercial dining tables, cabinets, and commercial pieces.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Military veteran and owner of Porter Wood in Virginia Beach, making heirloom-quality furniture and custom woodwork — dining tables, keepsake boxes, and more — using hand-cut joinery and responsibly sourced American hardwoods.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Artist blacksmith operating Gentile Forge in Virginia Beach, forging ironwork including decorative pieces, tools, knives, tomahawks, and hand-forged guitars.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Ceramic artist operating the Middleton Clay Project in Chesapeake since 2014, hand-digging and processing much of his own clay from western North Carolina, Currituck County, and Chesapeake. Also teaches ceramics at a local Chesapeake high school.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Owner of Hill Woodworking in Norfolk, personally collecting, milling, and drying reclaimed wood from local trees and old structures to make cutting boards, serving boards, and heirloom furniture without chemical stains.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Owner of Indigo Wood Works (formerly Big Drawers Furniture, established 2005) in Norfolk, building custom furniture and built-ins — vanities, dining tables, bookshelves, and kitchen cabinets — in domestic and exotic lumber.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Owner of Beach Blacksmith in Chesapeake. 25 years of forging experience, trained by the Tidewater Blacksmithing Guild and apprenticed as an artist-blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg, specializing in museum-quality 18th-century reproductions and teaching forging classes.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Surfboard shaper at S&A Surfboards (Surf & Adventure Co.), Sandbridge, Virginia Beach. Shaping since 2000, professionally since 2010; the only East Coast shaper with an Aku shaper CNC cutter, per the shop's own site.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Jewelry artist operating Harper Jewelers in Virginia Beach, with 20+ years of experience in custom jewelry design, heirloom restyling, and hand engraving.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Founder of All Hands Pottery, a community ceramics studio in Norfolk offering classes, open studio hours, and commissioned pottery.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Leathersmith and owner of Werther Leather Goods, hand-making bags, belts, wallets, watchbands, and passport holders from a small workshop in Norfolk's Selden Market since 2011.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Builds custom, hand-selected-hardwood furniture and home decor — tables, cabinets, shelving, desks, beds, charcuterie boards, mantels, and stair railings — entirely to order from a Virginia Beach workshop.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Custom furniture maker in Virginia Beach designing and building modern woodworking pieces, mostly one-off work for friends and family alongside custom orders taken through his site.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Internationally exhibited fiber artist, graphic designer, and longtime art educator running Ocean View Arts, a teaching studio and gallery space in Norfolk's Ocean View neighborhood, offering private art instruction after four decades of teaching.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Quilter working as The Quilted Ginger in Chesapeake, offering custom and commissioned quilts, longarm quilting, t-shirt and memory quilts, and private quilting lessons.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Quilt-pattern designer and teacher based in Chesapeake, working as Triangle Frenzy (Artistically Engineered Designs) — globally distributed quilting patterns and in-person lectures/workshops teaching sewing and quilting technique.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Longarm quilter in Virginia Beach offering edge-to-edge and custom quilting, semi-custom borders, t-shirt and memory quilts, and custom flower designs as Quilter Bee Longarm.
Official portfolio →Portsmouth
Longarm quilter in the Portsmouth area working as A Busy Bobbin, offering computerized edge-to-edge quilting on an Innova machine and serving clients across Hampton Roads.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Luthier building and repairing handcrafted guitars and stringed instruments in Virginia Beach since 1997, and running a one-on-one guitar-building school.
Official portfolio →Chesapeake
Luthier building one-of-a-kind, finely crafted handmade guitars from top-quality air-dried tone woods as Lindsay Guitars in Chesapeake, tailoring each instrument to the player's individual style.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Wood carver in Virginia Beach making coastal-themed carvings — whales, fish, osprey, eagles, and mermaids — drawing inspiration from marine life along the ocean.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Norfolk-based multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations explore perception and ecological change; carves wood sculpture — often wildlife subjects — from material salvaged along bay and river shorelines, and has twice won the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition's youth division.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach native making functional pottery for the home and teaching private, semi-private, and group hand-building and wheel-throwing classes with over fifteen years of experience.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Art teacher with over 29 years of experience who opened The Dragonfly Art Studio in Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood in 2016, teaching pottery-wheel classes and after-school and summer art programs for adults and children.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Silversmith and leather/metal worker, a lifelong native of the Norfolk area, working at LORAK Jewelry in Norfolk's Selden Market as the primary in-house production artist for the shop's Samla and Vermeil jewelry collections.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Glass artist working from a home studio in Virginia Beach, making glass castings, fused glass, and engraved pieces inspired by sculptural and architectural forms; previously worked as a commissioned painter before shifting to glass and ceramics around 2009.
Official portfolio →Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach artist working primarily in hand-tufted textiles and sculptural fiber, incorporating tufted materials into sculptures, lighting, furniture, and installations alongside painting and constructed frameworks. BFA in Painting and Drawing, Old Dominion University (2024).
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Founder of Little Stitch Studio, a sewing and fashion-design studio in Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood. Trained at the Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design (Kent State University) and Sweet Briar College; holds advanced haute couture dressmaking and sustainable-design certifications. Has designed swimwear, custom bridal wear, and accessories, and is a published author of a purse/tote/clutch pattern-making book.
Official portfolio →Norfolk
Norfolk-based jewelry artist and founder of Alodeuri Jewelry (est. 2011), a cold-formed metalsmith working primarily in copper and brass with sustainable, low-waste methods and repurposed materials, creating organic-form, culturally conscious jewelry.
Official portfolio →24 tattoo studios · 9 galleries · 4 creative venues · 2 organizations · 18 public artworks — records currently listed, not a complete count.
2026-08-29 – 2026-09-05
Norfolk
Free public Open Studio sessions during The Hermitage Museum & Gardens' 2026 juried Artists in Residence program — visit with 8 resident craft artists (ceramics, fiber, glass, paper, and beadwork) and watch them work as they discuss their processes and techniques.
Organizer: The Hermitage Museum & Gardens
Last checked:2026-09-12
The second Saturday and Sunday of most months.
Norfolk
A recurring craft-demonstration and hands-on program at The Hermitage Museum & Gardens, with a different featured craft or artist each session.
Organizer: The Hermitage Museum & Gardens
Last checked:2026-09-19
Norfolk
A craft and handwork festival at The Hermitage Museum & Gardens, part of its broader 'Handwork at the Hermitage' program.
Organizer: The Hermitage Museum & Gardens
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