Event Name:
Louisville Tattoo Festival

Event Date:
March 21-23, 2025

Website / Ticket Link: https://www.louisvilletattoofestival.com/

Location:
Kentucky International Convention Center

Event Description / Other Info:
Join us at the Kentucky International Convention Center. Our tattoo festivals are unlike any tattoo event you have ever attended. The Louisville Tattoo Festival offers a selection of over 200 of the best artists from all over the world right here in Louisville for three days of tattooing, art making, merch selling, and much more.

At the Festival, attendees will have the opportunity to get tattooed from traveling and local artists alike. Many artists will book the festival in advance, but there will be opportunities each day to find artists that are taking walk up tattoos on a first come first serve basis.

If you do not want to get tattooed over the weekend you will not be short of entertainment. Artists and vendors alike will be selling merchandise, there will be contests where you can enter your tattoos that you have previously collected, watch contests take place, and see some of the best artists from across the globe practice their craft.

Tattoo artists will have the opportunity to buy supplies from a variety of vendors for use at the festival and to take back to their home shop. There will be a tattoo of the day competition daily to show off the best tattoos made at the Festival.

Whether you are coming to the Louisville Tattoo Festival for your first tattoo, your 100th, or just to have fun, we are happy to have you, and cannot wait to see you there.

FRIDAY
PUBLIC HOURS 12P-10P

12:00 PM Festival Doors Open

2:00 PM Booth Judging Begins

2:00 PM- 9:00PM Tattoo Contest Registration Open

8:00 PM Best Booth Award

8:00PM Fresh Small Black & Grey

8:30PM Fresh Small Color

9:00 PM Tattoo of the Day Contest

10:00 PM DOORS CLOSED

SATURDAY
PUBLIC HOURS 11A-10P

11:00 AM Festival Doors Open

12:00 PM-9:30P Tattoo Contest Registration Open

Today’s Contests
*Worst Tattoo
*Best Healed Small Black & Grey 6”x6” or Smaller
*Best Healed Arm/Leg Sleeve
*Best Healed Backpiece / Full Front
*Best Healed Small Color 6”x6” or Smaller
*Fresh Small Black & Grey
*Fresh Small Color
*Tattoo of the Day

5:00 PM Worst Tattoo Contest hosted by Removery

6:00PM Tattoo Contest Judging Begins

8:00PM Fresh Small Black & Grey

8:30PM Fresh Small Color

9:00PM Tattoo of the Day Contest

10:00 PM DOORS CLOSED

SUNDAY
PUBLIC HOURS 11A-7P

11:00 AM Festival Doors Open

12:00 PM-3:30PM Tattoo Contest Registration Open

Today’s Contests
*Best Healed Large Black & Grey
*Best Healed Traditional
*Best Healed Portrait – (Color or Black & Grey)
*Best Healed Large Color
*Fresh Small Black & Grey
*Fresh Small Color
*Tattoo of the Day

4:00PM Tattoo Contest Judging Begins

5:15PM Fresh Small Black & Grey

5:45PM Fresh Small Color

6:15PM Tattoo of the Day Contest

7:00 PM DOORS CLOSED