Inkin Shreveport Tattoo Festival
The Ark-La-Tex region's anchor tattoo festival, gathering around 150 artists in downtown Shreveport for a weekend of live work and sideshow entertainment.
Event details
- Next edition: Fall 2026 (TBA)
- Venue: Shreveport Convention Center, Shreveport, LA
- Location: Shreveport, LA
- Organizer: Inkin Productions
- Founded: N/A
- Frequency: Annual
- Attendance: N/A
- Artists / booths: ~150 artists
- Tickets: Day and weekend passes via Inkin Productions; see website.
- Tattoo competitions: yes, judged categories run across the weekend
- Website: https://inkinproductions.com/
- Instagram: @inkinshreveport
About
The Inkin Shreveport Tattoo Festival is billed as the largest annual tattoo and piercing festival in the Ark-La-Tex, drawing roughly 150 artists to the Shreveport Convention Center for a weekend of live tattooing, exhibitions, and the chance to explore new styles. Produced by Inkin Productions under president Aaron Antonucci, it shares its organizing team with the long-running Inkin The Coast convention on the Gulf, lending the younger Shreveport edition a seasoned production backbone.
Beyond the tattoo floor, the festival leans into spectacle with live music, circus-style sideshows, contests, and a wide vendor hall. Its most recent edition ran October 17-19, 2025; the 2026 dates have not yet been announced, but the event is expected to return in the fall.
What to expect
- Around 150 artists across the Shreveport Convention Center floor
- Billed as the largest tattoo festival in the Ark-La-Tex
- Produced by the team behind Inkin The Coast
- Live music and circus-style sideshow acts
- Tattoo contests across multiple categories
- Large vendor hall alongside the tattooing
Best for
Ark-La-Tex artists and collectors wanting the region's flagship festival
For artists: booths, applications, hours
No Shreveport booth is on sale as of September 2026. The Shreveport festival, attending artists and booth registration pages all return a 404, and the sitemap, updated August 2026, carries no Shreveport URL; the only event pages are Biloxi. The home page promotes one event, Inkin the Coast in Biloxi, November 6-8, 2026. The last listed edition, October 17-19, 2025 at the Shreveport Convention Center, is marked ended.
In 2024 a single 10x10 booth cost $600 in full, deposit $300 (50 percent, non-refundable); double $1,200, triple $1,800, merchandise vendor booth $300. That covered two artist badges, one helper pass, pipe and drapes, an eight-foot skirted table, a six-foot table, four chairs and a bio-waste container; cords, surge protectors and lighting were not. Booths went first come, first served with no jury, the show was disposables only, balance due August 1, 2024.
The 2024 Louisiana Department of Health fee was $150 in-state or $250 out-of-state per shop, by money order with the health form. The show ran Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., $25 at the door; Friday closed at 10 p.m., opening at noon in press coverage, 1 p.m. on the organizer's archived page.
Notable: Run by the same team behind the long-running Inkin The Coast convention on the Gulf Coast.
How we check this listing
We last confirmed these details on 2026-07-06. Dates and prices are taken from the organizer and change between editions, so treat the organizer's own page as final before you book travel or a booth.
Checked against: https://inkinproductions.com/, https://inkppl.com/en/tattooevents/2025/october-2025/inkin-shreveport-tattoo-festival, https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/food_and_entertainment/inkin-shreveport-tattoo-pierceing-festival-convention-center/article_62d0bf74-60ab-11ef-b594-630d96d81c41.html