{"id":174993,"date":"2026-04-24T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174993\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:06:08","slug":"photos-2026-electric-city-tattoo-convention-at-the-hilton-scranton-conference-center-04-17-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174993\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: 2026 Electric City Tattoo Convention at the Hilton Scranton &#038; Conference Center, 04\/17-19\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conventions are where memories are made, and few memories last longer than a tattoo. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electriccitytattoo.com\/convention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Electric City Tattoo Convention<\/a> returned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilton.com\/en\/hotels\/scrcchf-hilton-scranton-and-conference-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hilton Hotel<\/a> in downtown Scranton for the 15th time last Friday, April 17 through Sunday, April 19, creating art on skin as well as in the photobooth all weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c15 conventions in and it still comes down to something simple \u2013 tattooing, and the people who care about it. We\u2019ve been lucky to build an event where people can connect with each other, with the tattooing and with the culture around it,\u201d the staff of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electriccitytattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Electric City Tattoo &amp; Piercing<\/a> posted to social media after the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are too many names to list without leaving someone out, but to everyone who\u2019s been part of this over the years \u2013 the tattooers who return year after year, the ones joining us for the first time, the vendors and the customers who trust us \u2013 thank you! This doesn\u2019t happen without the people behind the scenes either \u2013 the setup crew, the volunteers, our friends and families who show up and help us however they can. They\u2019re a big part of why this all works. We don\u2019t take any of it for granted. When we say, \u2018Thank you for coming,\u2019 we mean it. See you in 2027!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conventions are where memories are made, and few memories last longer than a tattoo. The Electric City Tattoo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17846,76120,17848,178,180,179,43096],"class_list":{"0":"post-174993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-convention","9":"tag-electric-city-tattoo","10":"tag-hilton-scranton","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-tattoos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}