Denver Tattoo Arts Convention

The exhibition boasts hundreds of the finest professional tattooers, tattoo memorabilia and curiosity themed carnival of sideshow performers this September 1-3, 2017, it was announced today by Troy "Tattooed Kingpin" Timpel, owner of VillainArts.com and traveling tattoo artist/conventioneer.

The sprawling exhibition has made over two decades of annual appearances nationwide, and in other major US cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Kansas City, to name a few. Among hundreds of internationally renowned tattoo artists are also unique vendors, peddling rare and unusual merch for subculture enthusiasts and tattoo art collectors. The Villain Arts Conventions traditionally include a number of appearances by celebrities from movies and reality-TV tattoo competitions, like Ink Master, Best Ink and Tattoo Nightmares. Visiting artist seminars for professionals in the tattoo industry are also a feature at the shows, and include topics on social media/marketing, technical tattoo application techniques for working artists, and Q & A's with longtime tattooers and legends in the business.

Winners, Finalists, and Runners Up from long running SPIKE TV tattoo competition reality-TV show Ink Master will be appearing and tattooing at The Denver Tattoo Arts Convention.

Since founding the Villain Arts organization, Troy "Tattooed Kingpin" Timpel, has grown the original Philadelphia Tattoo Convention, organized twenty years ago by tattoo legend Crazy Philadelphia E

Twenty-year veteran tattoo convention organizers and promoters, Villain Arts, will be ushering in for the first time ever, their World Famous, star-studded, traveling Tattoo Convention.