Kings & Queens of Ink: Southern InkFest,
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About the event
Kings & Queens of Ink: Southern InkFest debuts April 16–18, 2027, at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Mississippi. This new three-day festival experience is built around the fifth annual Kings & Queens of Ink Tattoo Expo, combining nationally and regionally recognized tattoo artists with live rock, country and blues, Southern food, a crawfish boil, tattoo competitions, vendors and interactive cultural experiences.
Southern InkFest is a debut festival, but it is not an untested event. It launches from five years of tattoo-expo experience, an established network of professional artists and vendors, returning participants, an existing digital audience and proven event operations.
The expanded 2027 format is designed to introduce the established tattoo expo to a much broader regional audience. Southern InkFest projects 6,000–8,000 attendee visits over three days, representing approximately 4,500–6,000 unique attendees.
The festival will attract tattoo enthusiasts, working artists, music fans, food lovers, young professionals and culturally engaged consumers from Mississippi and neighboring Southern states. With indoor and outdoor programming and extended attendee dwell time, Southern InkFest creates repeated opportunities for sponsors to engage consumers throughout the weekend.
Southern InkFest is also exploring a proposed arts and community partnership with the Mississippi Museum of Art, connecting tattooing with the broader story of visual art, creative expression and Mississippi culture.
Why should you sponsor?
Southern InkFest gives founding partners the opportunity to help establish a new signature festival while benefiting from the credibility and audience developed through five years of the Kings & Queens of Ink Tattoo Expo.
Unlike events offering only passive logo placement, Southern InkFest provides opportunities for meaningful, repeated interaction through branded experiences, product sampling, festival hospitality, stage integration, digital content, vendor-space activations and category-exclusive partnerships.
Sponsor opportunities include:
• Exclusive ownership of a relevant business category
• Branding across the festival website, ticketing campaign and digital promotions
• On-site activations inside the tattoo expo and outdoor festival areas
• Main-stage recognition and scheduled sponsor acknowledgments
• Product display, demonstrations, sampling and consumer engagement
• VIP tickets and hospitality for employees, clients or promotional use
• Integration with tattoo competitions, live entertainment or the crawfish experience
• Access to professional tattoo artists, vendors and their extended audiences
• Inclusion in selected media, social content and post-event recaps
• Measurable reporting on attendance, digital reach and activation engagementSouthern InkFest’s combination of tattoo culture, live music and Southern food creates access to several overlapping audiences during one weekend. Its founding partners will receive early category ownership and recognition as companies that helped launch a new Jackson tradition.
Partnerships can be customized around a sponsor’s marketing objectives, target audience, geographic priorities and desired level of activation.
Josh LaceyJosh Lacey is the founder and event organizer behind the Kings & Queens of Ink Tattoo Expo and Kings & Queens of Ink: Southern InkFest.
Through the development of the Kings & Queens of Ink Tattoo Expo, Josh has built relationships with professional tattoo artists, vendors, suppliers and industry participants from across the region. The 2027 event represents the fifth annual tattoo expo and the debut of its expanded Southern InkFest format.
Josh’s vision is to create an inclusive, professionally produced event that elevates tattooing as a legitimate visual art form while bringing together art, music, food, tourism and community engagement. Southern InkFest is designed to generate value for participating artists and businesses, create an engaging experience for attendees and provide sponsors with measurable opportunities to connect with a passionate regional audience.
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5001-10000 attendees expected
50% Male Attendees
50% Female Attendees
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3 available packages from US$2500 to US$10000
https://www.sponsormyevent.com/kings-queens-of-ink-southern-inkfest-jackson• Logo placement on the Southern InkFest sponsor webpage • Recognition in the digital festival program • One dedicated sponsor-announcement post on festival social media • Logo inclusion on shared community-partner signage • Two three-day general-admission festival passes • Opportunity to provide an approved promotional item for attendee distribution • Inclusion in the post-event sponsor-recognition announcement
10 available
• Supporting Partner designation • Logo placement on the festival website and selected digital promotions • Two sponsor-recognition posts on festival social media • Logo inclusion on sponsor signage throughout the event • One 10-by-10-foot sponsor activation space • Four three-day general-admission festival passes • Scheduled stage recognition during the festival weekend • Opportunity to distribute approved promotional materials • Inclusion in the digital festival program and post-event recap
6 available
• Festival Experience Partner designation • Prominent logo placement on the festival website and selected marketing materials • Enhanced on-site signage in a designated festival experience area • One premium 10-by-20-foot activation space, subject to venue approval • Three dedicated sponsor-recognition posts on festival social media • Scheduled stage acknowledgments throughout the weekend • Eight three-day festival passes, including two VIP credentials • Opportunity to conduct an approved attendee promotion, demonstration or product activation • Inclusion in selected festival content and media materials • Inclusion in the post-event recap and sponsor-performance report
10 available