HELL CITY
TATTOO FEST

Fine Art Gallery, Sinema and more events at Hell City

 

 

FROM FLESH TO CANVAS!


CHECK OUT FINE ART FROM HELL CITY TATTOO ARTISTS
 



 
ARTISTS: ART DROP OFF IS THURSDAY 5 PM - 8 PM and FRIDAY MORNING

The Hell City Fine Art Gallery features many other works of art in various mediums. Works displayed in the fine art gallery are from Attending Hell City Tattoo Artists who showcase their other talents including paintings, sculptures, and flash. Be sure to swing by the Fine Art Gallery to see Hell City artists take their art from flesh to canvas! Come feast your eyes on all of the incredible paintings that will blow your mind!!
 
 

 


** SECOND FLOOR EVENTS **

Special Events Igniting in the Depths of The Hell City Second Floor



The second floor of Hell City is an amazing addition to the existing energy and excitment of the fest. There are many special events and one of a kind activities going on all weekend long. The second floor is always a nice experience, saturating you with incredible paintings, videos, seminars and more. Be sure to come to the depths of the Hell City second floor to witness all the hellish events!


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THE WET PAINT PROJECT


HELL CITY LIVE PAINTING PERFORMANCE

Step right up to these fine artists and witness amazing paintings being done right in front of you!
All weekend long, painting and tattoo masters will grace the special events room on the second floor at Hell City!


LIVE ALL WEEKEND LONG! On a huge stage just off of the main presentation stage, over a dozen of the tattoo worlds finest and most exciting artists will be creating their work right before your very eyes! Paint will splatter, messes will be made, mistakes scratched out and painted over, accidents will happen, jokes will be told, drinks will be spilled; in short, artistic genius will unfold RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VEY EYES!

Over a dozen artists from around the country, and the world, will be working on their creations all weekend long. fueling each others imaginations and firing their creative flames. Come witness the artistic process in action. You might even be able to buy the artwork whose birth you've witnessed! With this years unbeatable line-up of artists, there won't be a dull moment on the WET PAINT PROJECT Stage all weekend long!

Wet Paint Artists at HCPHX 2011:
  • CHRIS DINGWELL - Portland, Maine
  • CHET ZAR - From the planet AWESOME!

    MORE ARTISTS TBA
  LIVE @ SPECIAL EVENTS ROOM - 2ND FLOOR



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FINE ART GALLERY
 
 
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The Fine Art Gallery is next to the seminar room, special events room and sinema room! All weekend we are asking all attending tattoo artists to bring at least one or two pieces of fine art with them to display at the convention. The fine art will be displayed in a gallery area right next to the sinema and seminar rooms dedicated to displaying other works of art from attending artists. Artists may sell their artwork or just present it for everyone to see. Artists must provide name tags for each piece of art stating the name of the artist and the studio they are with. Artists that wish to sell their fine art must provide pricing for each piece.




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HELL CITY SINEMA
 

 



*Free & Open to the public*
 
REST YOUR FEET & RELAX WHILE WATCHING TATTOO INSPIRED FILMS!

The Hell City Sinema is one of the many additions to Hell City where you can rest your feet and watch one of the many tattoo inspired modern and historical tattoo flicks that will be played continuously over the weekend. Located right next to the fine art gallery! Tattoo Wars will be showing daily in the HC Sinema! Tattoo Wars pits the best tattoo artists of our time against each other in a head to head creation competition. The worlds best tattoo artists go head to head at Hell City! In these episodes you will explore the world, legend and work of two internationally acclaimed tattooists, Guy Aitchison and Aaron Cain. Then travel to a the Hell City Tattoo Fest in Phoenix, Arizona where our stars do a tattoo on the skin of one willing client in 3 hours. These creations have a common theme, a human heart, but are rendered in the unique style of each artist. As the show closes, thousands
of show attendees vote for the creation they like the best and the winning artist takes home the Tattoo Wars trophy. Don't miss this exciting episode of tattoo television history in the sinema everyday as well as other great films!

 
HC SINEMA ROOM

 


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TATTOO WARS & OTHER TATTOO FILMS
 
The worlds best tattoo artists go head to head at Hell City

*GUY AITCHISON VS. AARON CAIN*

Don't miss this exciting episode of tattoo television history in this years Sinema!

Tattoo Wars pits the best tattoo artists of our time against each other in a head to head creation competition. In this episode you will explore the world, legend and work of two internationally acclaimed tattooists, Guy Aitchison and Aaron Cain. Then travel to a the Hell City Tattoo Fest in Phoenix, Arizona where our stars ink a tattoo on the skin of one willing client in 3 hours. These creations have a common theme, a human heart, but are rendered in the unique style of each artist. As the show closes, thousands of show attendees vote for the creation they like the best and the winning artist takes home the Tattoo Wars trophy.

Tattoo Related Films showing all weekend!

 


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Adrian Dominic's "SmileTrain" DVD Charity Presentation




DONATE HERE TODAY - CLICK HERE!

 "Smile Pinki" is an Academy Award winning documentary short produced by Smile Train to increase awareness of clefts and what this organization is about.  This is a story about a brave little girl who waited six years for a life-changing surgery. When she was born with a severe cleft, everyone in her village thought it was a curse from God.  With no education and unable to read or write, Pinki's parents had no idea that her cleft could be fixed.  Even if they did, with a household income of less than a dollar a day, they could never afford the surgery their daughter so desperately needed. Not allowed to attend school, tormented by other children who threw rocks and called her "Cut Lip", Pinki faced a long and difficult life filled with pain and heartache.  But one day, a social worker told them of a free cleft surgery for the poor.  Pinki and her father set off on foot, to find the Smile Train partner hospital in Benares, India, that would give Pinki not just a new smile, but a second chance at life."

My name is Adrian Dominic, and I am a tattooer and a painter. Thank you for taking the time to read this message, I know how valuable all of our time is.  If you are a veteran of the Hell City Tattoo Conventions, we may have ran into each other, had a beer and some fun after a good days tattooing. If this is your first year participating, let me be the first to congratulate you, as Hell City is, in my honest opinion, one of the best conventions an artist can participate in.  I will be at Hell City again this year, but my role this year will be substantially different.  My role is to make all of us tattooers at the show aware of a human condition that we can directly have an immediate changing impact on.  If you are at all like me, I can tell you're already interested. I will be in charge of organizing and collecting a fundraiser at this year's show.  The charity I am supporting is called SmileTrain.  Now I won't try to pull your heart strings and do the whole "bleeding heart" thing, but I really believe in this one.  Here's why: 

SmileTrain is an organization who, in a nutshell, takes financial donations, matched those donations by sending and training local physicians to perform cleft and lip palate surgeries in impoverish areas for children.  Literally, it takes $250 to fix.  You may know someone with a cleft palette, have had one and got it surgically fixed, or even have a child with this condition.  Here in the states, it's a relatively simple procedure to locate and have performed.  However, not only is it difficult to impossible in some of the less than fortunate parts of our planet, it places a heavy burden on the afflicted in all aspects of life from social, education, professional, romantic... Everything is affected, even the ability to consume food. 

Now, my challenge to you is this.  We tattooers of the Hell City shows are all fairly established and work most if not the entire time there.  My perspective is that we are fortunate enough to modify bodies for cosmetic luxury, as personal or impersonal as the messages may be, and make a LOT of money doing it.  I challenge you to donate 1 hour of that income to this cause.  As body modifiers, what's one hour of your income to modify a body that is both physically and socially in need?  As a human being, it just feels like the right thing to do.  If you feel so inclined, challenge your clients, too.

Again, thanks for taking the time to read this.  I will be periodically spamming all of the people working Hell City this year with emails concerning and reminding you of this.  If you have any doubts, concerns, and/or suspicions as to whether or not this charity is legit, I encourage you to research them yourself, call them, even ask for a dollar for dollar breakdown.  I think its one of the best and impacting charities I've ever encountered, and in the most lasting way possible.  These children can be helped for life.  THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.

With as many issues that plague the world these days, it's refreshing and exciting to know there are areas we can actually make a positive difference, regardless of our different social, political, and even spiritual (or lack thereof, ha) perspectives.  As tattooed humans... Let's help some other humans that need us. If you would like some info, I can send you a packet with a dvd and some literature, just shoot me an address to send it to.

Thanks for your time, and I will see you.  Hell City, during the year of the great shift, 2012. I love all of you,

Adrian Dominic / www.AdrianDominic.com

Here's a link to the SmileTrain website: http://www.smiletrain.org/

For more information on cleft palate conditions please visit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002046/
 

DONATE HERE TODAY - CLICK HERE!


Showing everyday 6pm - 7pm @ HC Sinema - 2nd floor

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The "EVIL EASEL"

 
Drunken Collaborative Bar Art Project @
the Big Bar on 2 for all to participate!


More info on this new event in the Hell City bar coming soon.



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BIG BAR ON 2

DOUSE YOUR DEMONS AT THE HELL CITY BAR

Unwind over a cocktail at The Hyatt's aptly-named “Big Bar on 2” lounge, featuring a 53 foot bar beautifully accented in cherry finish and black granite. Offering everything from local brews to the finest wines by the glass, their Columbus bar is a gathering spot for hotel guests and locals alike. Enjoy panoramic views of the downtown skyline while savoring daily happy drink specials and casual fare, including the can’t miss “Shufflin’ off to Buffalo” chicken tenders or the sweet-tooth satisfying ice cream “nachos” with dulce de leche ice cream.



BY ENTERING THE FINE ART GALLERY, YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING
HELL CITY TERMS & CONDITIONS

 

 

 
BY ENTERING THE SINEMA, YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING
HELL CITY TERMS & CONDITIONS

 *SINEMA RULES* 
 
*FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC
* UNDER 18 IN THE SINEMA AT ALL TIMES !
* PARENTAL SUPERVISION IS REQUIRED WITH CHILDREN
* ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK! IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED
OR PRONE TO FAINTING, DO NOT ENTER THE HC SINEMA!
* THERE IS NO COST TO VIEW ANY FILMS IN THE HC SINEMA
* PLEASE NO TALKING DURING ANY OF THE FILMS IN PROGRESS
* HELL CITY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ITEMS LEFT IN THE SINEMA