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Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | 501 S. Sapodilla Ave, WPB, FL 33401

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Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | 501 S. Sapodilla Ave, WPB, FL 33401

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Tatted up

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Theatre junior Becca Suskauer (R-L) and communications senior Adam Nir share a laugh while tattooing their pieces of pig skin.

Students in science teacher Kristen Perez’s Anatomy and Physiology class got to experience what it is like to be a tattoo artist during a lab where they tattooed a piece of pig skin. The lab was a part of a lesson about the integumentary system.

Deep in concentration as she creates her intricate designs, communications junior Alana Gomez tattoos pigskin, which she ultimately viewed as a unique, valuable learning experience. “I liked the lab because it created a new way of learning about something that would usually be boring in a regular class setting,” Gomez said.
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Deep in concentration as she creates her intricate designs, communications junior Alana Gomez tattoos pigskin, which she ultimately viewed as a unique, valuable learning experience. “I liked the lab because it created a new way of learning about something that would usually be boring in a regular class setting,” Gomez said.

“I have been doing this lab since I started teaching here [at Dreyfoos]. It’s an interesting activity that shows the depth of the layers of the skin.” Perez said, “It’s always fun to see the students reactions to how deep you actually have to puncture the skin for the ink to settle in.”

Students that participated in the lab received a piece of pig skin, a probe and a canvas filled with ink. The students then got the freedom to tattoo whatever they wanted on the skin.

“It’s always fun to see what designs they come up with. I didn’t give them a lot of time to do it this year, but in past years I have seen some truly amazing designs,” Perez said.

Students tattoo pieces of pig skin in science teacher Kristen Perez’s class. Participants received a  pig skin, a probe and a canvas filled with ink--and were free to create whatever designs they wished.
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Students tattoo pieces of pig skin in science teacher Kristen Perez’s class. Participants received a pig skin, a probe and a canvas filled with ink–and were free to create whatever designs they wished.

Communications junior Alana Gomez saw the lab as an effective way to learn the lesson being taught while also being hands-on.

“I liked the lab because it created a new way of learning about something that would usually be boring in a regular class setting,” Gomez said, “It was a great experience, it taught me different levels of the skin as well as other components of the system that I would not have known otherwise.”

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Hannah Dunn, Copy Editor
Communications junior Hannah Dunn is a first-year staffer on The Muse. Her passion for journalism began in middle school where she was the News Editor of the newspaper. She is also involved in speech and debate as well as being on the yearbook staff and hopes to further studying communications once she graduates Dreyfoos in 2017.
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