Trauma-informed collective provides private spaces to local business owners
DE PERE – A Green Bay-based tattoo artist and practicing mental health professional said she is rewriting the definition of a body art shop with the introduction of The Darling Collective – a “nontraditional,” collaborative and trauma-informed private studio.
A Wisconsin native, Paige Berg said she began tattooing after finishing school in Colorado.
“I had just finished grad school for clinical mental health with [an emphasis in] art therapy, and I took up tattooing in an apprenticeship, just to see if I liked it,” she said. “Both my therapy and my tattooing careers grew side by side.”…