Ancient Arts festival
Why pick this one
Ancient Arts Festival hosts a tattoo and oddity expo at Chatham Agri Center in Pittsboro with live tattooing, contests, puppetry, music, and sideshow acts.
Best for
- Attending a tattoo and oddity expo in Pittsboro
- Watching live tattooing and tattoo contests
- Shopping for oddity and macabre art
- Experiencing puppetry, sideshow acts, live music, and live painting
- Entering the October 11 masquerade costume contest
Look elsewhere if
- Seeking a standalone tattoo appointment outside the scheduled October 9–11, 2026 festival
- Seeking a conventional general-purpose art festival without tattoo, oddity, or macabre themes
Specialties
- live tattooing
- tattoo contests and awards
- oddity and macabre art vendors
- masquerade costume contest
- sideshow and carnival acts
What makes them different
- Hosted at Chatham Agri Center in Pittsboro, North Carolina
- Combines live tattooing, tattoo contests, oddity vendors, puppetry, music, and sideshow acts
- Includes a masquerade costume contest with a custom trophy by Crowz Eye Oddities
- Offers artist spaces and vendor setups with an 8-foot table, drape, and two chairs
- Features 1920s-era silent movies on two screens
- Serves
- Pittsboro
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 1192 US-64-BR W, Pittsboro, NC 27312
- Website
- http://www.ancientartsfest.com/
Services
- tattoo and oddity expo
- live music and stage performances
- artist and vendor exhibition spaces
- live painting
- food truck event