Toledo Tattoo Company and Bold Lines Gallery launch merged studio-gallery March 14

At 608 Market St. in downtown Toledo, Toledo Tattoo Company and Bold Lines Gallery will open a combined studio-gallery with a grand opening scheduled for 4 p.m. March 14. Owners Kodi Klocinski of Toledo Tattoo Company and Austin Lipowski of Bold Lines Gallery announced the merger to create a single venue that houses both a tattoo studio and a contemporary fine-art gallery.

Klocinski and Lipowski, who have been good friends for years, said the joint venture is intended to bring more people downtown and to fuse visual art with tattoo practice. “Our vision is to build a space where all forms of art can coexist and elevate one another,” Klocinski said. The partners agreed that combining operations at 608 Market St. made sense for both businesses.

The March 14 grand opening will stage a live jazz band and an ice carving demonstration, and it will debut Bold Lines Gallery’s first major exhibition as an artist showcase. The event programming is built to draw gallery visitors and tattoo clients into the same floor plan at 608 Market St. starting at 4 p.m., where attendees will see the new exhibition alongside studio activity.

A portion of the evening’s proceeds will benefit Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Toledo; organizers said the charitable component is part of the opening-night plan. The proprietors have not announced a specific percentage, but confirmed that the fundraiser will be tied to ticketed and sales-driven components of the grand opening.

Operationally, Toledo Tattoo Company will continue offering high-caliber custom tattoo work within the shared venue, while Bold Lines Gallery will present rotating exhibitions of contemporary and abstract art. Lipowski said the format is designed to create recurring opportunities for artists and audiences through monthly events, noting that “Downtown Toledo is undergoing an exciting cultural resurgence, and we’re proud to contribute something truly unique — a place where visual art and tattoo art can intersect, inspire, and grow.”

Monthly events at the site on Market Street will follow the opening, with the partners positioning the space as both a working tattoo studio and a public gallery. The March 14 launch, with live music, ice carving, and Bold Lines Gallery’s first major exhibition, is intended to establish the merged venue’s role in downtown Toledo’s evolving arts scene.