{"id":646140,"date":"2026-05-04T00:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646140\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:53:19","slug":"7th-annual-winnipeg-tattoo-show-draws-artists-from-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646140\/","title":{"rendered":"7th annual Winnipeg Tattoo Show draws artists from all over"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual Winnipeg Tattoo Show returned to the city for the seventh time this weekend featuring over 300 artists from across Canada and 11 different countries.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jeff Boivin, event organizer, says the three-day event draws some of the best artists from around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got artists from Korea, Japan, Barcelona, Spain, Argentina, La Paz, Bolivia,\u201d Boivin said. \u201cWhen they come they\u2019re hearing about it in their country from other tattoo artists who have been here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Tattoo artist Gunnar Quispe moved from La Paz, Bolivia to Winnipeg attracted by the tattoo scene and a friendly community, on May 3, 2026 (Cliff Simpson, CityNews)<\/p>\n

Gunnar Quispe, originally from La Paz, Bolivia, loves Winnipeg tattoo scene so much that he moved to the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel really really comfortable here,\u201d Quispe said. \u201cI think it\u2019s really true \u2013 that Manitoba friendly ya know, it\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

His newest client Natasha Pasetto travelled from London, Ontario. She came to Winnipeg to visit friends but is leaving with some new ink.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s art which is beautiful. It\u2019s a form of therapy kind of too. Like you kind of drift off into a place that\u2019s like therapeutic almost which is amazing,\u201d Pasetto said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just feel at home here. You just feel like everybody belongs. And I think that\u2019s really important and beautiful,\u201d Pasetto added.<\/p>\n

\"\"Justine Proulx, tattoo artist at Black Thistle Tattoo, says Winnipeg\u2019s Tattoo Show brings kids to older people together as a community, on May 3, 2026 (Cliff Simpson, CityNews)<\/p>\n

Justine Proulx, artist at Black Thistle Tattoo, says the event brings tattoo community from all walks of life together.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just the typical tattoo crowd. We have kids here. We have a kids\u2019 corner. We have lots of older people getting tattooed. We have people from all over the place,\u201d Proulx said.<\/p>\n

Apart from the tattoo stations, attendees enjoyed other games like axe throwing while waiting for their turn to get inked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a great adult daycare. It gives people something to do,\u201d said Michael Block, co-owner of Haulin Axe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can come throw axes for a bit. Maybe they\u2019re nervous about getting tattoos. They just come throw axes, feel better, then go do something permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Haulin Axe co-owners Michael Block and Kyle Anderson at the Winnipeg Tattoo Show (Koby Mitchell, CityNews)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual Winnipeg Tattoo Show returned to the city for the seventh time this weekend featuring over 300…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-646140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}