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Record Number of Attendees Enjoyed Art of All Kinds

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Artist Geeta Pattanaik paints a picture of the Riverside Art Museum during the 3rd annual Riverside Art Market May 7 on Mission Avenue. Pattanaik was one of the demonstrators at the event and the featured artist of the month at the Blue Door Museum Store at the Riverside Art Museum.

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More than 55 vendors sold their wares May 7 during the 3rd annual Riverside Art Market on Mission Avenue.

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The Riverside Art Market, in its third year of running, is held by the Riverside Art Alliance and designed to raise funds for the Riverside Art Museum.

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Owner Lindsey Starck and her mother Valerie showed custom designed jewelry from Lindsey's business, Lulu's, May 7 during the Riverside Art Market.

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Husband and wife John and Leslie Richmond sold jojoba oil products from their business, Leslie By Hand, at the Riverside Art Market.

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(From right to left) Michaela VanSant, Kristi Lippire and Maria Fiore represented the California Baptist University Art Club at the Riverside Art Market. Many of the items they showed were handmade by students.

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The first year of the Riverside Art Market only saw about 20 vendors but has now expanded to more than 55. This rise in vendor attendance caused the market to expand across Mission Avenue, to the parking lot of Encore High School for the Arts across from the Riverside Art Museum.

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Members of the Riverside Art Alliance counted the amount of visitors to the Riverside Art Market at the door to the museum. In 2015, about 1,000 guests attended throughout the course of the day. By noon this year, and with four hours left in the event, 1,000 people had already come through.

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The Riverside Art Market included booths inside the art museum, in front of the art museum and in the parking lot of Encore High School for the Arts across Mission Avenue.

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Husband and wife Ed and Carol Aguiar brought Carol's handcrafted sea glass jewelry to sell at their booth for their company, Life's Journey, at the Riverside Art Market May 7 on Mission Avenue.

By Rebekka Wiedenmeyer, Community Writer
May 12, 2016 at 09:40am. Views: 115

RIVERSIDE >> The 3rd Annual Riverside Art Market took place May 7 in front of the Riverside Art Museum, hosting more than 55 vendors, entertaining hundreds of local visitors and giving vendors an opportunity to display and sell their handmade wares to the public. The Riverside Art Market is an opportunity presented by the Art Alliance of the Riverside Art Museum to raise funds for the museum and to truly preserve Riverside as the city of arts and innovation. This year, the market saw a record number of both sellers and visitors, displaying the growing appreciation for the arts in the community and the interest in keeping the museum a beloved masterpiece in downtown Riverside. “When you look at what the museum staff are doing, I love what they’re trying to create,” said Kathy Bocian, co-chair of the market. “They’ve been so much more engaged with the community, so many innovative exhibits and activities…They’re really trying to make Riverside the city of arts and innovation with the museum at its centerpiece.” According to Bocian, vendors came from as far away as Santa Barbara and San Diego, though many were local to Riverside and the surrounding Inland Empire. This year, the event featured not only art and art vendors, but also offered art demonstrations, food and children’s activities inside the museum. Bocian, fellow co-chair Barb Holshouser and others working for the Art Alliance and the museum have been working since January to sign up the vendors and blast the event on social media. Because the market has continually grown over the past three years, the market expanded this year to not only include booths both inside the museum and out on the front lawn of the museum, but also across the street in a parking lot owned by Encore High School for the Arts. All types of art were displayed, including ceramics, jewelry, photography and print making, to name a few. Bocian said the only real requirement was that all the art was handmade. Some of the “art” present at the event was less traditional, for example, Leslie and John Richmond’s business Leslie by Hand, featuring jojoba oil-based skin products. “My wife said, ‘Let’s start making lip balms,’ and so we’ve started making lip balms, and now we’ve grown to a full-on line of hand salves and soaps,” John said. Food vendors like The Spice Whisperer and Etta Mae Gourmet were also at the market, along with some booths featuring succulent garden art, such as High Noon Creations and Rancho Rubidoux. The California Baptist University Art Club, represented by student president Maria Fiore, vice president Michaela VanSant and club advisor Professor Kristi Lippire, were selling succulent plants at the market, as well, along with student-made creations and little sock snowmen made by members of the club. “It’s awesome that the Riverside Art Museum is putting this on and that we get to be a part of it and it’s cool walking around seeing everyone’s work and being able to display our work,” Fiore, a sophomore visual arts major, said. Last year, the amount of guests over the course of the six hour-event reached about a thousand. This year, according to Art Alliance President Patti Funder, they had already reached one thousand visitors two hours into the event. “As they see the quality of the artists that are here, that makes a difference,” Bocian said. Valerie Starck, who was helping her daughter Lindsey at their booth for Lindsey's business Lulu’s Custom Designed Jewelry, said this was their second year vending and that the event has become more developed. “I hope that they build it and that it gets even better and bigger and that people learn about it and know that it’s happening and they come,” Valerie said. If interested in donating to the museum, checking out some of the exhibits or knowing more about the arts in Riverside, visit www.riversideartmuseum.org.

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