By: Kaleb Stowell

For the last 15 years, every Saturday, rain, sleet, or shine, a lively arts market pops up in the morning under the western end of the Fuller-Warren Bridge in Jacksonville, the Riverside Arts Market. The Riverside Arts Market is provided by the Riverside Avondale Preservation, a group dedicated to maintaining and preserving the Riverside area.  

The Riverside Arts Market provides a place for local vendors and farmers to sell their homemade goods. The Arts Market provides many different commodities, such as produce, bread, condiments, apparel, jewelry, paintings, and more.  

The Arts Market also provides food service in the form of local food trucks from all over Northeast Florida. Each serving a distinctly unique style of cuisine for customers to enjoy, from Soul food to Korean food, there is something for everyone. 

The Market offers a place for those of all ages to come and hangout. The atmosphere is jovial and fun, and everybody who is there always seems to be in high spirits. The vendors are accommodating and happy to talk about their products, and they hold the market itself in high esteem, some claiming that the culture of Riverside itself is what brings them back week after week. 

Chloe Kuhn, the Director of the Riverside Arts Market at the Riverside Avondale Preservation said that the market is always looking to bring new and unique vendors to the Market, as they want to have a wide variety of goods offered so that all visitors can find something they like. For those interested in becoming vendors themselves, the Riverside Avondale Preservation offers an application program to become a vendor at the Arts Market, you can find it at their website, riversideavondale.org.