About
Learn more about Outpost 76 Art + Tattoo Studio and resident artist Mike “Poopbird” Groves.
Outpost 76 Art + Tattoo Studio
Founded in July 2023, Outpost 76 is a safe space for all of the nerds who want to get fun, bold ink on their bodies. Outpost 76 is a “come as you are” studio that encourages clients to fully embrace their bodies regardless of shape, size, and color. Let’s decorate that beautiful thing with some rad art.
The Studio Space
Outpost 76 Art + Tattoo Studio is about 1,200 square feet.
Perfect Health Inspection
In true Poopbird fashion, Outpost 76 has a perfect health safety rating of 100.
Private Studio
As a private studio, Outpost 76 offers one-on-one time with the Bird himself.
Poopbird Specialties
Honed over his 25 years in the industry, Mike’s style is unique. Though he’s always up for a good idea, Mike specializes in nerdy, horror, and cartoony tattoos.
how bout something super nerdy?
We feel like you probably need something nerdy on your arm.
how bout a horror piece?
And if not something nerdy, then you definitely need something horrific.
Meet the Outpost 76 team
The Outpost 76 team goes beyond Mike and his talents. The rest of the shop family is admittedly a bit fluffier, but a part of the family just the same. Thorne and Finch might not actually be in the shop, but Mike will gladly show you photos.
Mike "Poopbird" Groves
Owner | Resident Artist
Hawthorne Langhof-Groves
Head of Security
Finch Langhof-Groves
Director of Marketing
25 years of tattoo genius
SPECIALIZING IN NERD
What makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L.? Your Poopbird tattoos… obviously. Outpost 76 is a safe space for ladies, men, our nonbinary friends, and anyone looking to get cool, colorful, quirky tattoos. Come as you are – always.
Meet Poopbird
Mike “Poopbird” Groves is an old school Athens, Georgia tattoo artist from the days of soldering needles, tracing paper, and coil machines.
Shortly after graduating from the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art with a BFA in Painting, Mike began a tattoo apprenticeship under Todd “Radar” Gregg. He spent two full years learning the industry, mastering health and safety, making needles, taking machines apart, putting them back together, and practicing tons and tons (and tons). He began tattooing as a resident artist at Pain and Wonder Tattoo and Piercing in 2000.
Even with tattooing as a full-time gig, Mike continued to create in a wide variety of media beyond skin. In 2019, Mike unveiled a series of three designer toys with Sideshow and Unruly Industries. In 2023, he was asked to participate in the Sideshow’s Human Cyborg Relations: The C-3PO™ Custom Bust Art Show where he debuted “This Is Madness.” He has shown at galleries all across the country including Chicago, Illinois; New Orleans, Louisiana; and, of course, Athens, Georgia.
Today, Mike tattoos at Outpost 76, his private studio in Athens’s Chase Street Warehouses, creates large-scale paintings and custom commissions, and sends subscribers monthly doses of Poopbird via his Sticker of the Month club. When he’s not tattooing, he’s playing a four-hour board game, chasing his two cats, and traveling the world with his super hot girlfriend.