our STUDIO

Voluta is a gathering place for inclusive, expansive thinkers. Kindness is the incense that moves through every session, every interaction, every day. Voluta artists are loving people who happen to be great artists, and only such people will ever tattoo here.

A SPACE DESIGNED TO SOOTHE & INSPIRE

We offer you one-off creations in an environment designed to wow your peepers and soothe your nerves. Above that, you will find warm conversation and connection with the artists and collectors you meet.

Once you arrive and we settle you in, you can choose to be tattooed in the open or privately. 'In the open' means enjoying the exciting happenings of a living art studio where you are the featured creation!

You may choose to be tattooed privately at any time. You might need a quiet moment or an entirely private day, just your artist and headphones. Take your peace however you'd like. We will envelop you in the safe warmth of the Golden Curtain.

We offer private tattooing for public figures—local or touring—and agents trust us to keep out the cameras and post nothing to social media. Here the renown can simply be people. Email Conan directly for such accommodations. Note: Fame means nothing to Conan, so skip that hook when you reach out.

Tattooing together ‘in the open’

Tattooing together semi-privately

Tattooing privately behind The Golden Curtain

“Cause it's cool when you 'cause a cozy condition.

That we create, 'cause that's our mission.”

La-Di-Da-Di
Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh

LOCATION: The right part of town

Nestled between a beer hall caboosing a BBQ joint, a 25-mile fitness trail, a pastry shop, a savant boat mechanic, and a brilliant home design firm, Voluta Tattoo is right at home in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood. Moments from everything. Glorious trees! Servants are leashed to eager dogs. Bikes are dashing, and people are laughing. Bonfires and beats light up the lawns of mish-moshed homesteads. MK is a genuine thriving community of real people…who we intend to tattoo.

THE BARREL BUILDING…AROUND BACK

5335 WINTHROP AVENUE
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46220

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY • BY EMAIL
NO WALK-INS • NO SIGN • NO PHONE

 

OUR STORY

Voluta Tattoo Studio was founded in 2006 by 25-year tattoo artist Conan Lea. After 14 years in the eminent Stutz Building of downtown Indy, he moved the studio to Meridian-Kessler in 2020. Now residing on the Monon Trail, Voluta fits right in among the MK neighborhood’s amazing culture, food, and smiling people.

Voluta is a studio of clients and artists who became friends. Friends became family. That family then lifted Voluta and spread the message to like-minded collectors throughout the Midwest. With hundreds of clients ribboned together by miles of tattoo coverage spanning 16 years, Voluta is indeed a living tapestry! One that we cherish and now invite you to enjoy.

What’s in the name Voluta?

vo-LU-ta: noun
Latin — a genus of sea snails, family Volutidae. The Volutes.

Conan found the essence of his tattoo approach in the spiraled shell of a humble sea snail. While scuba diving, he witnessed the Voluta tossed by surf and ocean currents, enduring the forces of pressure and tide, wind and storm. This fluidity of life does not destroy Voluta. Instead, it strengthens with each new day, each revolution. Each curve becomes more pronounced, defined, more intricately marked. These marks hold the visible secrets of a marvelous, individual adventure. Upon the shell is painted a story of life truly lived, and no two are alike.

That's Voluta Tattoo.

Brandon Lea, keeping the Voluta Flame.

We believe you have such a story within you

Let us mark you with art as unique and intricate as your journey. Trust your Voluta artist to listen to you, translate your narrative into the visual realm, and help you develop your outward expression of Self. Your tattoo will be lovingly applied, conveying your story as vividly or subtly as you wish.

AMENITIES

  • Medical-grade sterilization practices

    Our safe, clean and sterile tattooing processes are continuously updated and entirely customized to the space we occupy. Beyond health department standards, the medical professionals we tattoo lend their advice, meaning you are tattooed as safely as they are. Further, we will teach you how to handle yourself and your in-progress tattoo while we work. Education is power.

  • The View

    Our studio is visually curated to please your eyes in both day and night modes, stripped of the standard domestic clutter of modern homes and offices. We invite you to relax your body, free your mind of temporal awareness, and let your eyes drift through Voluta. We intend to calm your amygdala, a nugget of your brain primarily responsible for processing fear and emotional responses, making and keeping memories, and secreting the hormones you need in the moment. If your environment proves safe and beautiful, your amygdala relaxes you. Your tattoo will hurt less, time will fly, and your artist will be remembered as gorgeous and brilliant.

  • Coffee Teas & Snacks

    Your coffee will be handmade by your artist. We are flush with bubbly drinks, but never soda pop because it's terrible for you. Fresh, chilled filtered water flows freely, while steamy filtered water is ready for our 20+ available teas. Snacks vary from protein-rich nuts to sweets to chips to whatever goodness your fellow collectors bring for community chomping! You can also bring your favorite snacks and drank; no judging here.

  • Klipsch Sound

    While being tattooed, you will spend many hours wrapped in the majesty of Klipsch sound. This matters to us, as it soon will to you, because tattooing elevates your senses. The experience of enduring stillness and pain simultaneously opens your memory to 'flashbulb' encoding. While the beauty of Voluta themes your visual memories, we trust Klipsch to bring your soundtrack.

  • Collector thrones and Purple bottom bumpers

    Why should sitting be the worst part of being tattooed? Much of the discomfort of being tattooed is simply sitting still for hours. Voluta's got your bottom end with top-end squish tech by Purple. We layer those upon the world's finest collector chairs from Tat Soul, all new in 2022. Your sit-bones will thank you later.

  • Free and ample parking

    After 14 years of parking at our downtown location, we are SO glad to offer a lot--one whole lot!--of free parking. We will also walk you out to your car at night, even the fellas. While our neighborhood is safe, we want to be sure you are of the mind to drive after the rigors of your tattoo session.

  • Clean, green, BigAss™ airflow

    Luxury breathing? Sure, let's start a movement. Our answer to airborne ick is 15 double-flow windows, 100+ thriving old-school leafy air scrubbers, two BigAss™ overhead fans, and a ferocious HVAC system freshly installed in 2022.

  • Tidy private privy

    Lovingly maintained by the artists who ink you, we keep the paper fluffy and the porcelain glistening. Breath enfreshenators and lady products are well supplied.

  • Guest wifi and gadget chargers, but BYO-Headphones

    Each tattoo station supplies all the modern cords and outlets you'll need for your shows, which you can access via our guest wifi. Being tattooed while 'working from home' has never been so easy.