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Event organizers encourage people to walk around from booth to booth to find styles in which they’re interested.

Annette LaRue of Vice’s Tattoo Age and artists from VH1’s Black Ink Crew will be available to convention attendees.Īrtists are listed on the Villain Arts website, and people can contact them through their social media pages to set up appointments, but they are not required. More than 100 tattoo artists, including James Vaughn, Anwon “Boneface” Johnson, Kyle Dunbar, Al Fliction and Janelle Hanson from various seasons of Ink Master will be at the convention.

“In the first five years, there was a big difference where you had a population that was never exposed to the culture of it and people didn’t have tattoos as much as everywhere else, but now I think it is pretty caught up to the rest of the country,” said Philadelphia-based artist and Villain Arts owner Troy Timpel, who has expanded the footprint of the convention to 22 cities over the last 20 years. Tickets are $20 per day or $40 for a three-day pass. The event features tattoo artists from around the country, including multiple artists featured on the Paramount Network reality series Ink Master and many prominent local artists. In 2006, Oklahoma became the last state in the country to legalize tattoo parlors, joining South Carolina and the city of Milwaukee in the same year.Īs tattoos in Oklahoma went from underground and backwoods parlors to mainstream, their increased popularity mirrors a national explosion of acceptance of the ancient art form that as recently as a few decades ago was seen as something only for gang members and sailors.Ĭox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, welcomes the first Oklahoma City Tattoo Arts Convention July 12-14 sponsored by Villain Arts. More than 100 tattoo artists will be at Oklahoma City Tattoo Arts Convention.