Last update 20 February 2025

Dear Tattoo Artist,

First of all, thank you for your interest in joining the World Tattoo Events ProTeam.

We are very honored to have you on board and we are looking forward to a great and long term collaboration with you.

This page is meant to clarify what does really mean to be part of the the WTE ProTeam, what you can expect from us and what do we expect from you.

MISSION

The WTE ProTeam’s main goal is to SUPPORT talented and professional Tattoo Artists who
ACTIVELY participate at tattoo conventions.

In other words, the WTE ProTeam is essentially an artist community, based on an exchange of support and visibility between the Artists and WTE.

INTRODUCTION

Since 2010, World Tattoo Events has been promoting and collaborating with tattoo conventions all over the world.

The general definition of a (Pro)Team implies a tattoo artist representing a tattoo supply brand in exchange for free or discounted products.

In our case, we are not a supply brand and we don’t really sell anything. Instead we are an online platform promoting tattoo conventions.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM WTE AS A PROTEAM ARTIST

The biggest benefit of being a WTE ProTeam Artists, it’s a huge gain of extra exposure, recognition and new opportunities within the tattoo (conventions) industry.
In our experience, being part of the WTE ProTeam has always proved to be very beneficial for most of our affiliated artists.

Other more tangible benefits for ProTeam Artists are:

  1. Be part of an amazing international community of talented and influential artists.
  2. Profile photo on the Official WTE ProTeam page.
  3. Welcome announcement on the official WTE ProTeam Instagram page.
  4. Access to our private Instagram Group Chat, where we share new events, and sometimes discounted or free booths at tattoo conventions.
  5. Official WTE ProTeam digital banner to eventually print our or eventually embed on your existing banner.
  6. WTE table cloth.
  7. Social media posts of EVERY artist’s attendance at tattoo conventions.
    Simply add @world.tattoo.events as post collaborator and we will approve, showing your attendance on our official Instagram feed.
  8. Social media re-post of every prize won at tattoo conventions.
    Please note that we won’t re-post your daily tattoos as our focus is on tattoo conventions.
  9. Occasionally, discounted or FREE booth at tattoo conventions (but please don’t count on it).

WHAT DO WE EXPECT FROM THE TATTOO ARTISTS

  1. Sponsored by @world.tattoo.events tag on your Insta profile page.
  2. A post about your convention participation on your Insta in case of discounted or free booths.
  3. Last but not least, a professional and respectful attitude at Tattoo Conventions.

HOW TO APPLY AT CONVENTIONS

When we still had a small ProTeam it was somehow manageable to arrange the booth registrations for our artists (in many occasions even free booths).

However as the ProTeam kept growing, it proved to be very hard and extremely time consuming to arrange booth registrations for all ProTeam members.

So as per October 2024, we decided to keep the process as simple and efficient as possible.

  1. When you are invited or you want to join a convention, just finalize your booth directly with the organizers.
  2. Often our ProTeam artists get in any case favorable conditions as free booths, hotels and seats in the Jury panel.
  3. When we get offers for free or discounted booths, we will share them ONLY within the WTE Insta Group chat.
  4. If you are interested in any booth offer, please contact the organizer directly and mention the offer for the WTE ProTeam in order to finalize your booth.
  5. Booth offers will then be handled on first come, first served basis. If you never check the Insta Group Chat, you will be missing out most good offers.
  6. Anyone is free to share interesting conventions to the rest of the team within the Insta group chat.
  7. When your booth registration is finalized please message us on the @wte.pro.team chat, so that we can share and announce your conventions participation.

So to conclude we will never be involved (except for some special occasions) in the registration process of any of our ProTeam artists at convention.

COMMUNICATION

As from the 1st of October 2024, ALL communication between WTE and the ProTeam Artists will be handled via the Instagram @wte.pro.team account.

It’s impossible for us to keep the communication on multiple and personal channels as WhatApp, Facebook, Zalo, WeChat, Telegram etc. So please make sure to keep an eye on @wte.pro.team account which is solely focused on our ProTeam.

ABOUT FREE BOOTHS

• Free booths are RARE these days. Everyone is famous! So please don’t count too much on free booths unless you are invited directly by the organizer.
• Very well established conventions will almost never give away free booths.
• The priority for FREE booths is usually given to very famous artists or coming from very very far.
• The convention organizer is the one who will ultimately ALWAYS decide whoever will get a (free)booth or not.
• Please refrain from asking booths via private messages to Alex Van Dutch or the WTE Team.
• Please DO NOT ASK for a free booth for conventions within your own country or where you have previously attended as a paying artist. This is just very disrespectful to the organizer.

WTE 2025 CONVENTIONS

For 2025 we will be joining the following conventions:

!! THINGS THAT WILL GET OUT OF OF THE WTE TEAM !!

During the last 13 years, World Tattoo Events has earned the respect, trust and reputation of the tattoo industry.
The last thing we want, is to loose our very hard earned reputation. So please note that any of the following situations will get your removed from our team:

• Not attending a single convention in a year timeframe.
• Not showing up, without any notice, with a free booth arranged by WTE.
• Attending a convention without placing WTE banner at a convention with a free booth arranged by WTE
• A disrespectful attitude to ANYONE at a convention where you registered as a WTE ProTeam.
• Not respecting the official convention opening times leaving an empty booth during the convention.
• Sharing your FREE booth with other artists not affiliated to WTE, students or friends, without permission.
• Not posting online a convention that gave you a FREE both arranged by WTE.

JOIN US NOW

If you would like to be part of the WTE ProTeam please complete the below application form and we will get back to you soon.

@ ProTeam Registration

WTE TEAM TATTOO ARTIST REGISTRATION

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