Author: Sarah Cowell

TMoms @ 29: Group Art Show Open Call For Submissions

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✨ 29 and still DIVINE! ✨

In celebration of Tattooed Mom’s 29th birthday, we’re throwing a one-night only party & open call art show featuring TMoms themed works!

 

 

Every year, hundreds of artists from around the world visit Tattooed Mom to put their work on the walls and see the art of other creatives who have recently passed through. Now in our 29th year, we invite all artists inspired by Tattooed Mom – both near and far – to submit their artwork and be part of a group art show celebration. There is no entry fee, and we are welcoming all art forms, including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and multimedia pieces relating to Tattooed Mom. We will also be selecting one special piece to be featured on a future limited edition Tattooed Mom Artist Edition tee (check out our *limited stock* reprint of the TMoms @ 22 Rain x TMoms Artist Edition Tee)!

 

 

All submissions must be dropped off in person or mailed to 530 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147 by APRIL 17, 2026. Please include your name and Instagram tag as you would like it credited, as well as your preferred method of contact (email / Instagram DM / text).

 

Participating artists are welcome to sell their TMoms @ 29 submission(s). Artists are responsible for selling their art or arranging for someone else to do so, and artists will retain 100% of all sales. Artists chosen for the TMoms Artist Edition tees will have their art featured on limited edition merchandise in addition to receiving a TMoms gift card and a supply of their designed shirts!

 

It is the artist’s responsibility to pick up all submitted art after the show. All art must be picked up by May 1, 2026. Please note that mail-in submissions will not be returned.

 

 

Deadline for Entries: April 17, 2026

 

Submission Requirements: Any Size, Any Medium, Must be Tattooed Moms inspired

 

Location: In-person drop-off or mail submissions accepted. Please address your pieces to Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147

 

Pick-Up: All artwork must be collected by Friday, May 1.

 

Questions? Email [email protected].

 

Show Date: April 24, 2026 // Please note that show attendance is 21+ w/ valid ID only, however artists of all ages are encouraged to submit.

Call for Entries Illustration & Show Flyer by @sadcowboychar.

 

“Dum Dum Juice” artwork by Corey Danks. Artist Edition Tee by Rain. Painting (no name) by Kelly Campanile.

 

March Feature: Irish Grasshopper

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Don’t be green with envy! This March we’re serving up a Tattooed Mom twist on an old classic…

👽🦗🐸💸

💚 Irish Grasshopper 💚

 Jameson + Creme de Menthe + Creme de Cacao + Almond Milk

$12.5

 

 

Kiss me, I’m an Irish Grasshopper! 🦗💚 Available for a limited time only at Tattooed Mom!

 

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Love Month Feature: The Paper Heart Cocktail

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DO YOU LOVE TMOMs & LOFI? CIRCLE ONE:

YES            YES BUT IT’S ITALIC

 

❤️‍🔥🍒💌‼️

Valentine’s Cocktail Special: The Paper Heart

💘 LoFi Gentian Amaro + tequila + Aperol + lime 💘
$12.5

 

 

This Valentine’s Day, LoFi is our aperitif crush! Celebrate the season with us this February with some sultry sips of The Paper Heart, our specialty VDay cocktail featuring LoFi Amaro! Whether we get our hearts broken or find true love, it’s no accident that Amaro is regarded for its pain relieving qualities, anti-toxin abilities, and even its aphrodisiacal effect! 👀🥰💋

 

Our love for you may be eternal, but The Paper Heart is only around for a limited time. Don’t let love slip through your fingers!

Available all February long at Tattooed Mom.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

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Characters Welcome 9: An International Sticker Art Show

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From Pocket to Wall: “Characters Welcome” Covers Tattooed Mom in Sticker Art from Around the World

Philadelphia’s very own International Sticker Art Show returns with a weekend of free workshops, meetups, and a scavenger hunt, all benefiting local youth arts programming.

We are thrilled to announce the return of Characters Welcome: An International Sticker Art Show, opening Friday, October 17, 2025, and running through Sunday, October 19, 2025. Now in its ninth year, this weekend-long show showcases thousands of sticker artists from around the world, with many first-time artists shown side by side with seasoned titans. This year’s event programming includes artist workshops, an all-ages sticker scavenger hunt, a free introductory sticker art class, and more, with all show proceeds donated to local youth arts programming.

 

Celebrating the street art community, Characters Welcome is a room-filling installation of sticker art that occupies the entire upstairs front room of Tattooed Mom. Kicking off with Opening Night Part I on Friday, October 17, Tattooed Mom will host several workshops with local creators over the weekend before Opening Night Part II on Saturday, October 18, and the Closing Night Party on Sunday, October 19. Budding artists, young creators, and families are invited to join us on Sunday afternoon for all-ages programming upstairs at Tattooed Mom (usually 21+). Collaged boards will be available for purchase along with a special Philadelphia sticker pack curated by local sticker artists, mystery show sticker packs, framed hand drawn stickers, and limited edition tees. All proceeds from Characters Welcome 9 will be donated to youth arts programming at The Village of Arts & Humanities and Fleisher Art Memorial.

 

Characters Welcome 9 programming includes:

💛 Friday October 17 💛

  • 5:00pm – 2am • Opening Night Part I (21+)

🩷 Saturday, October 18 🩷

  • 12:30pm – 1:30pm • Let’s Collab: A Sticker Collab Meet Up (21+). @smugsbunny presents a sticker collab hour meet up with some pre-started collabs, plus @dday521’s World Famous Giant Collab on view.
  • 2pm – 3pm • Characters Always Welcome: An Artist Talk (21+). Street art photojournalist @ericinphilly talks all things stickers with character based artists @eltoro215, @ffs3000, & @melt.gif
  • 3:30pm – 4:30pm • PMSlaps Presents Black Book Buds Swap & Giveaway (21+). A meet up hour hosted by @pmslaps for drawing in and swapping stickers for black books. Free special edition mini black books to the first 30 attendees.
  • 5:30pm – 2am • Opening Night Part II (21+)

🧡 Sunday, October 19 🧡

  • 12:30pm – 1:30pm • PMSlaps Presents Sticker Scavenger Hunt (ALL AGES). @pmslaps takes you on a scavenger hunt to find artists & characters on the walls of Tattooed Mom. Find them all and you could win a prize! (kid and big kid versions).
  • 2pm – 3pm • Stick Up Kids! (ALL AGES). Join @aaronteachesart for a FREE make and take activity inviting kids to create their own mini T-Moms wall using novelty stickers and art from some Characters Welcome All-Stars!
  • 3:30pm – 4:30pm • Sticker Art For Kids of All Ages (ALL AGES). An all ages sticker workshop with @bydivij for the next generation of storytellers & street artists.
  • 5:30pm – 11pm • Closing Night Party (21+).

 

As Philadelphia’s Unofficial Street Art Museum, sticker artists have been meeting, drawing, and putting up work at Tattooed Mom long before what they were doing was ever called “street art.” Instead of spray paint or wheatpaste, sticker artists use stickers as their medium, which can be easily traded with other artists, carried in a back pocket, or slapped onto a flat surface. Honoring the strong hand drawn, character based sticker culture of Philadelphia’s sticker art scene, Tattooed Mom called its inaugural 2012 sticker art show “Characters Welcome,” but so many different forms of sticker art are represented within the show every year: hand drawn, screen printed, stenciled, collaged, stamped.

 

Photos from past shows as well as sneak peeks from this year’s exhibition can be seen on Characters Welcome’s Instagram. We hope to see you at the show to celebrate the amazing medium of sticker art while supporting youth arts programming in Philadelphia!

 

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The Delia Deetz • October 2025 Cocktail

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🩸 DELIA, DELIA, DELIA… 🩸
NO COVER  |  FREE FUN  |  21+ w/ VALID ID

 

🖤 🤍 🖤 🤍

THE DELIA DEETZ COCKTAIL SPECIAL

Raspberry Vodka + Lo-Fi Sweet Vermouth + Aperol + Strawberry Jam + Sparkling Water + Served with a Red Licorice Straw

Available 10/1 – 10/31
Only at Tattooed Mom!!

🖤 🤍 🖤 🤍

 

DAY-O, DAYYYYY-O, Daylight come and we want go home…

“I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself.
If you don’t let me gut out this house and make it my own,
I will go insane, AND I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME!”

—Delia Deetz, Beetlejuice (1988)

🖤 🤍 🖤 🤍

 

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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Characters Welcome 9: An International Sticker Art Show: Call for Submissions

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We’re pumped to announce the call for submissions for Characters Welcome 9: An International Sticker Art Show! We love the community of sticker artists that meet, exchange ideas, and leave behind tokens of their amazing art here at Tattooed Mom. Characters Welcome celebrates that creative community and reaches out to artists all over the world to show their best hand drawn & printed sticker art. Check out some photos from past Characters Welcome shows as well as submissions for this year’s show on our Instagram.

All are welcome to contribute to Characters Welcome 9. First time artists will be shown side by side with the seasoned icons in the street art world. Stickers need not be character based. We welcome hand drawn, printed, silk screened, stenciled & collaged stickers.

The stickers will be displayed in a show at Tattooed Mom on Friday, October 17th, Saturday, October 18th, and Sunday, October 19th, with additional programming TBA! All stickers will be compiled onto various sized boards and will be available for purchase, as well as special sticker packs, select framed art and more! We’ll have some very special raffle items and rad day-of-show surprises. 100% of ALL sales will go to benefit local youth local arts organizations.

We hope you will share your sticker art with us and the world through Characters Welcome, and spread the word about the show to your fellow artists, friends, and family. The creative exchange and collaboration of this show is at the very heart of what we love to do here at Mom’s.

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, October 1st, 2025. Please include your artist name, any Instagram or social media handles, and as many stickers as you’d like so we can give you proper credit & share your art with the world! Submissions will not be returned.

Please mail all submissions to:

Characters Welcome

614 S. 4th Street

#212

Philadelphia, PA 19147 U.S.A.

Local artists may also drop off their stickers in person at Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street, Philadelphia.

For more information feel free to DM us on Instagram.

Hope to see you all at Characters Welcome 9 to celebrate the vibrant world of sticker art while helping youth arts programs!

CW9 artwork by @eltoro215.

Check out the full Characters Welcome Submissions FAQ HERE

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WEGAY Pride Cocktail at TMoms

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HE GAY! SHE GAY! THEY GAY! WE GAY!

❤️‍🔥🌈🍹🍒

WEGAY PRIDE COCKTAIL SPECIAL

coconut rum / tequila / pineapple / 7 up / cherry / lemon garnish / & a pride flag straw

Available 6/1 – 6/30
Only at Tattooed Mom!

🍋🏳️‍🌈🪩😈

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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How to Book an Event at TMoms

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Q: so, uh, how do i book an event at tmoms?

 

A: it’s SO EASY to host an event at tattooed mom!! follow along below and come join our community of creative weirdos ASAP!

 

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STEP 1. HAVE AN IDEA !!!!!

(pssssst: anyone can book an event at tmoms)

 

 

STEP 2. HIT US UP !!!

u just gotta send us an email at [email protected] (new inquiries may take up to 3-5 business days!!!)

 

 

STEP 3. SHARE UR EVENT WITH UR COMMUNITY !!!

posts, stories, tt, reels, yt shorts, go live, go scream off ur roof, hit up the group chat, make an eventbrite, etc… get UR event out in front of UR community & we’ll do the same!

 

 

STEP 4. THAT’S IT !!!

my dude, how easy was that?? drag performancs, birthday parties, poetry, comedy, works in progress, art shows, we do it ALL baby (except live music performances, sorry bbs)

 

 

­> EMAIL US: [email protected] <

 

Photo Credits:
📷-1: Photo by Samantha Sayten featuring Ann Artist at SlayHer Heavy Metal Drag.
📷-2: Wheatpaste art by marisa velázquez-rivas.
📷-3: Photo by Uv Lucas featuring BTS footage from Rubber’s single, “Fries & Wings”, filmed at TMoms.
📷-4: Photo by Michael DiCioccio featuring Next In Line Comedy’s very own co-host, Manny Brown.

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Secret Menu: Hot Hunny Sammy

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shhhhhhh, hunny… new secret menu just dropped at tmoms…

 

🥪🔥🍯🥵

❤️‍🔥HOT HUNNY SAMMY ❤️‍🔥

• crispy ((classic or vegan)) fried chickn •
• housemade hunny •
• peri peri mayo •
• lettuce, tomato, onion & banana pepper •
• Merzbacher’s sweet potato brioche bun •
$12.50

 

doesn’t get sweeter (or spicier) than this ‼️💥 only at tattooed mom

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

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