JANUARY 2011
DC TATTOO ARTS EXPO
Dates: January 13th-17th 2011
Location: Arlington, VA
Double Tree, Crystal City, National Airport 703.416.4100
Contact: tattoosbygiper@aol.com
INTERNATIONAL FEMALE TATTOO ART EXPO
The 16th Annual International Female Tattoo Art Expo is taking place January 14-16 2011 at the UFC Holiday Inn located in Orlando, FL.
The three-day event is open to all ages and will include Educational Seminars such as A.P.T.’S Preventing Disease Transmission in Tattooing.
The entrance fee is $10– $5 after 8:00pm.
Ufc Holiday Inn
12125 High Tech Avenue
Orlando, FL 32817
404-257-9000
FEBRUARY 2011
FEBRUARY 4TH, 5TH, 6TH 2011
PHILADELPHIA Tattoo Arts Convention at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel. Call (215) 448-2000 for reservations; mention the tattoo convention for discounted room rates. Ticket prices $20 per day or $40 for the weekend. Tickets sold only at show. The Enigma, Live bands, suspension acts, burlesque show, tattoo contests, art gallery and live tattooing all weekend long with over 200 of the worlds best artists. For all other information please call 1-800-541-8239 or go to tattooedkingpin.com
9th Annual Ink Travelers Tattoo and Piercing Convention
February 18-20 2011
Held at the Red Lion Hotel
100 Columbia Street
Vancouver, WA 98663
1-360-694-8341 (Call early for hotel reservations and mention show for discount)
Doors open each day at Noon. Cost is $12/day or $30 weekend pass
Daily Seminars, Art Fusions and Tattoo Competitions
Special Guest– Lyle Tuttle
For more information email- storybooktravelers@hotmail.com or visit www.myspace.com/inktravelers
Salt Lake City International Tattoo Convention
February 18-20, 2011
Salt Palace Convention Center, exhibit hall #4. Salt Lake City, UT
Over Presidents’ Day weekend, Salt Lake City will host its annual convention with high-profile artists from around the world, from Japan’s Horimyo to New York’s Daniel Albrigo. Legendary tattooer Lyle Tuttle, founder of the Tattoo Art Museum, who began tattooing professionally in 1949, will host two seminars, one instructing in the daily care, maintenance and repair of machines, and the other in designing and building them. C.J. Starkey of Flaco Productions is organizing an art show of all seventy-eight cards of a Tarot deck with a different artist rendering each one.
Salt Lake City’s convention, while a serious event, is also light-hearted. The winner of a prize for “Worst Tattoo” will be awarded a bucket of rocks and a tattoo removal certificate. Each year the convention is themed and this year’s is traveling gypsies, “Inspired by the rants of a bitter shop owner out here who harassed a lot of tattooists and magazines, accusing them of being ‘traveling gypsies’ and taking away from the local community,” says Starkey.
Of course, the emphasis is on the tattooing. “We have an amazing line-up each year. This year will be off the hook for sure,” Starkey says. With a mix of humor and seriousness, SLC promises to be a unique convention.
International Tattoo & Art Expo
February 19-20, 2011
Claudelands Event Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand
The International Tattoo and Art Expo will be a truly global event, with artists coming from the USA, England, Brazil, Norway, South Africa, Japan, China and more. The only event of its kind in New Zealand, the expo will feature Maori traditional artists and culture, showcasing the work of ta moko artists and others.
There will be a Miss Tattoo New Zealand competition, burlesque, musical performances, body painting and events featuring renowned skaters and graffiti artists. In addition to being an entertaining event, the expo will also be a charitable one. Organizers are donating the entry fee to Hamilton North School, a special learning center. An auction is also being held to benefit the school’s purchase of a mobility van.
“There are heaps of artists who I am excited about, Jo Harrison of Modern Body Art (UK), and Dong Dong Chou of Mummy Tattoo (China), they are both artists who are inspirational for me personally,” says organizer Chris Preece. “Really giving the New Zealand public the chance to get tattooed by world-class artists is what it’s all about.”
MARCH 2011
MARCH 18TH, 19TH, 20TH 2011
LOUISVILLE Tattoo Arts Convention at the Hyatt Regency Louisville Hotel. Call (502) 217-6095 for reservations; mention the tattoo convention for discounted room rates. Ticket prices $20 per day or $40 for the weekend. Tickets sold only at show. The Enigma, Live bands, suspension acts, burlesque show, tattoo contests, art gallery and live tattooing all weekend long with over 200 of the worlds best artists. For all other information please call 1-800-541-8239 or go to tattooedkingpin.com
APRIL 2011
APRIL 8TH, 9TH, 10TH 2011
BALTIMORE Tattoo Arts Convention at the Sheraton City Center Hotel. Call (800)325-3535 for reservations; mention the tattoo convention for discounted room rates. Ticket prices $20 per day or $40 for the weekend. Tickets sold only at show. The Enigma, Live bands, suspension acts, burlesque show, tattoo contests, art gallery and live tattooing all weekend long with over 200 of the worlds best artists. For all other information please call 1-800-541-8239 or go to tattooedkingpin.com
The 32nd Annual National Tattoo Association Convention
April 12-17, 2011
Nugget Hotel and Casino, Reno/Sparks, NV
http://nationaltattooassociation.com/convention.html
curt@nationaltattoo.com
Kicking off with a bike run with Apache Jil and ending with her roasting, the National Tattoo Association Convention will include top-notch artists and the biggest names in the industry engaged in absolutely unique events and seminars. In addition to tattoos and contests, there will be art demonstrations by Jeff Gogué, Cory Norris and Manuel Valenzuela. A seminar in Advanced Illustration Techniques with Rich Ives promises to teach even seasoned illustrators something new. Every artist who has studied under Ives has won an NTA Fine Art Award.
Lecturer and seminars will include the requisite pathogens training, among others that are quite different from those offered at many conventions—tattooing over mastectomies, color technique, rice paper stencils, the Life of Captain Don Leslie: a sword swallower and tattooed man, customer service, tattoo legislation, Celtic tattoo tradition and more. Jack Rudy and Brian Everett, two tattooing icons most known for their mastery and reinvention of black-and-gray work, will host a Q&A session. With many years in the business and incredible talent, Rudy and Everett will be sure to provide meaningful insight into the art and the industry.
Needle Art Expo
April 15-17, 2011
The Clarion Hotel, Murfreesboro, TN
johnnyxxxnobody@aol.com
Tennessee’s Needle Art Expo promises to be jam-packed with good tattooing and entertainment. The convention will host approximately ninety artists and sixteen bands. There will be seminars held on each of the event’s three days, with tons of trophies awarded in its twelve different contests.
Johnny Nobody of Straight Edge Tattoos in Murfreesboro has been a tattooer for fifteen years, traveling to several conventions each year. He has seen the best and worst of what conventions can be. “I have seen horrible conventions where the people putting it on were so money-hungry and didn’t care about tattooing at all as long as they got paid. Or the other side where people were so inexperienced that they had no clue of what tattoo artists would need,” he says.
Johnny hopes to avoid these pitfalls and put on a convention that caters to the needs of tattooers and highlights work the industry can be proud of. “I want to get a great group of tattoo artists together that everyone can learn from,” he says. “I want everyone to have a great time and meet people with like-minded values. I want to make this convention be what it started off being: showing off the best art in the world.”
JUNE 2011
TattooLaPalooza
June 24-26, 2011
Hyatt Regency, Miami, Florida
With artists such as Jesse Smith, Mike DeVries, Nikko Hurtado, Dan Hazleton, Jess Yen, Russ Abbott, Jeff Ensminger and Robert Pho; live painting, an art gallery and auction, with proceeds to benefit the Make a Wish Foundation, incredible work is sure to be seen and produced in Miami this June.
“We’re trying to have an art convention with tattooing instead of a tattoo convention with art,” says organizer Mickey Steinberg, owner of Eternal Ink Custom Tattoo Studio.
In addition, “The World’s Best Tattoo Competition” winner will be selected at the convention. Through April 2011, tattooers and the tattooed can submit photos of their work. The public will vote on the top one hundred. Those chosen will come to out to the show and be judged by a panel of twelve of the world’s top tattooers. The winner will receive ten thousand dollars in cash and prizes.
“The contest is going to be the first of its kind and probably one of the biggest contests in tattoo history,” says Steinberg.
AUGUST 2011
RICK’S 14TH INTERNATIONAL TATTOO CONVENTION
August 25th-28th 2011
KI Convention Center/Hotel Sierra
1-800-236-3330 – For Discount Room Rate (book under Rick’s Tattoo Convention)
Green Bay, WI U.S.A.
Email address: rick@tattoosbyrick.com website: www.tattoosbyrick.com
