Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendar for. Tampa is a multicolored mosaic of people with tatted up arms and legs, backs, shoulders and rib cages, flashing everything from Koi fish to cherry blossom trees, Japanese waves, detailed portraits, twirled tribals and countless other personal vignettes etched artistically into skin. With hotties and notties, moms, dads and grandparents all flaunting professional ink around a town full of tattoo shops and artists, Tampa visibly embraces the tattoo culture — which is why it makes an ideal place to throw a tattoo bash year after year.
The 11th Annual Tampa Bay Tattoofest revels in the ink-on-epidermis artistic medium with four days of
