Riverside Arts Center’s holiday art fair returns for its THIRD year!
Join us Sat. November 22nd from 11-6 pm and Sun. November 23rd from 11-4 pm.
Entry Fee: $1 suggested donation.
Kick off the winter holiday season with us! This fair focuses on handmade art, vintage goods, and self-care products. Get a head start on your holiday shopping, stock up on upcoming birthday gifts, or treat yourself!
Help Us Make the Holiday Art Fair A Success!
You can help make this year’s Holiday Art Fair a success by volunteering your time! Help greet and count attendees at the door, serve coffee and snacks at our coffee stand, vendor sit, and more! Click the button below to sign up.
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Explore our 2025 vendors!
Vintageliz Leather
Check out Vintageliz and her unique belts and bracelets that she custom fits on site!
Bookend Candle Co.
Bookend Candle Co. is an indie home fragrance business offering soy wax candles, soy wax melts, reed diffusers, room sprays, and candle accessories for people who want simple intentionality in their lives. Its mission is to provide a powerfully nostalgic experience and trigger peoples’ memories and emotions through its scents.
Genevieve Vanzandt Ceramics
Genevieve Vanzandt Ceramics specializes in fantasy and nature-inspired clay sculptures and pottery.
Glass By Iman
Local Artisan Glass by Iman makes original 1/1 stained glass artwork from her original designs, often including pressed flora she collects from all around Michigan. The goal of all of her work in this medium is to create art that makes the viewer stop what they are doing and spend more time in front of a window absorbing light.
Stretten Ceramics
Fleur Plants and Gifts
Fleur Plants and Gifts specializes in flora and fauna-themed items, offering unique dolls and decor to plant and animal lovers of all ages. By combining a passion for nature and crafting, they have developed a distinct product line of dolls and “forever plants” that showcase the beauty of nature and bring a touch of whimsy and delight to any room.
Electric Moon Press
As professional designers, artists, and illustrators, Mad Kro and Chris Kro bring you the highest-quality prints of well-known and lesser-known hikes and landmarks unique to the United States. As longtime hikers themselves, they have a passion for encouraging people to get outside, learn & love their backyard, and live by the motto “leave it better than you found it.”
The Still Bar
The Still Bar crafts zero-proof cocktails for people who care about what’s in their glass as much as what isn’t. Inspired by Michigan’s seasons and made with real, whole ingredients, their drinks are bold, balanced, and deliver the full cocktail experience without the consequences.
The Age of Asparagus
Erika Windisch is an artivist, showing her passion for environmental sustainability and veganism through her eco line of recycled material creations, including avocado stone, açaí seeds, and date pit jewelry, plant pigment watercolors, eco printed and botanically dyed textiles, recycled stationery, and more. Come explore her process of turning waste into wonder.
EmArt Mart
Olive + Indo Jewelry
olive + indio jewelry brings unique and one-of-a-kind metal and mineral jewelry created using the electroforming process. Discover a curated collection of artful adornments and unique gifts for the season.
Sloe Gin Fizz
Sloe Gin Fizz is a line of stationery and paper goods from artist Nicole Ray, bringing you a lively mix of whimsical illustrated goods, including greeting cards, stickers, magnets, art prints, note pads & more. From quirky animal and vegetable characters to nostalgia-filled interiors and calming views of nature, Nicole’s hand-drawn scenes are highly accessible, infused with a playful sense of humor and a strong narrative quality.
Ash Ambro Art
Ash’s art reflects her love of the natural world – from the smooth shapes of lake rocks to the delicate details of native plants and birds. Her watercolor and ink pieces capture the quiet beauty of nature and the calm it brings.
Decoupage Collage
Practicing “The Art of Recycling”, Laura A. Johnson (aka Découpage Collage) creates functional and aesthetic art from discarded materials, hand-cutting images without computer or AI manipulation. Her colorful, vibrant works typically feature multiple layers of symbolism, from the source of the materials to the mystical message embedded within the final piece.
Pooka Queen
Pooka Queen creates one-of-a-kind jewelry using hand-cut stones and wood components.
Luxury Knits
These beautiful, cozy, hand-knit creations are perfect for the chilly fall days or cold winter nights. Keep warm and stylish in these wool-blend, luxurious scarves, shawls, and head warmers.
Decorlotta Art & Designs
Gaylotta creates original art using both digital and traditional methods. With digital art, her designs are brought to life using digital brushes, textures, vibrant colors, and mixed media. Similarly, her hand-painted pieces reflect the same attention to detail and creativity, further capturing the eye.
Outer Peace by Anusree Sattaluri
Outer Peace by Anusree Sattaluri is a collection of Paintings & Ceramics depicting romanticized everyday scenes to bring warmth and calm to the viewer.
Lorraine Kolasa Studios
Lorraine Kolasa’s work is a combination of textiles and metalsmithing, usually achieved by casting handmade lace into solid sterling silver. It’s the transformation of fiber crafts into metal, and the recontextualization of them as jewelry and wearable objects, that fascinates her—how something so soft, delicate, and often overlooked can turn into something hard, durable, and precious.
Kiku Creative
Kiku Creative’s jewelry ranges from simple and classic to over-the-top and bold. All pieces are handcrafted to be lightweight and unique.
Sunny Beach Design
Sunny creates unique hand-carved woodenware for your home—from Michigan trees. These functional and decorative items are designed for daily use.
dang argyle
dang argyle creates well-made, sturdy and adorable bags in various sizes and colors. Each dang bag is made from hand block printed fabric, making every sewn item a one-of-a-kind original — after drawing, carving, printing, and sewing!
Van Roth Arts
Nat Van Roth makes relief prints inspired by Gothic and medieval art, fantasy, and nature. She prints her designs on upcycled materials like handmade paper, as well as using these designs for her stickers, cards, and other handmade products.
Pottery By Amy
Amy creates hand-built ceramic vases and bowls. Crafted from slabs and/or coils, each piece is unique, arising from her mood and where the clay takes her.
Arbor Trading Post
Arbor Trading Post is a local leather maker who combines traditional leathercrafting techniques with a clean, modern aesthetic to create handcrafted leather goods. Every piece is thoughtfully crafted using premium, environmentally responsible natural leather, and is built to journey with you for years to come.
Nora Myers
Nora Myers is a multidisciplinary abstract artist who creates notebooks, stationary, and art prints. All her creations are one-of-a-kind and celebrate the “imperfect” nature of handmade art.
JLC Pottery
JLC Pottery creates handmade functional pottery using motifs from Scandinavian design and social justice. Each piece is created to be used and enjoyed daily.
From Under the Toadstool
Inspired by the delicate balance of nature’s cycles, From Under the Toadstool crafts unique pieces that explore themes of growth, decay, and renewal in the natural world. We offers exclusive notepads and journals, original artwork, and enchanting stickers and bookmarks that showcase the profound beauty found in nature’s eternal dance between life and death.
Inner Peace Leisure Club
The mischievously simple and surprisingly refined works by Jason Oti unfurl a delightfully off‑kilter universe that balances razor‑sharp humor with tender meditations on existence. In this paradoxical blend, the work invites viewers to linger in introspection even as its naïve surface keeps the experience light, accessible, and irresistibly human.
Rhizome Studio
Original, hand-pulled prints celebrating the natural world, stories, and feminist politics – woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs, intaglios, and screenprints. Whimsical, geometric collages. Fiber art, including felted and woven items. Stickers, postcards, digital prints, etc.
Lara Zielin Artwork
Lara Zielin’s artwork is inspired by life’s cozy little moments and the joy that comes from not taking things too seriously. Her original work features scenes of ghosts reading books, birds drinking coffee, dinosaurs wearing scarves, and much more. She also does custom pet portraits! Lara’s cards, stickers, and prints are perfect for gifting to friends and family, or adding charm to your everyday.
Ypsi Clay House
Ypsi Clay House is both a community clay space and the home studio of local potter Anna Schwartz. Inspired by organic shapes and playful design, Anna creates pottery that strives to bring a grounded sense of joy to everyday rituals.
Little Curio Studio
Little Curio Studio blends a love of nature with tactile, handmade art. In an age of automation and digitization, an emphasis on the human hand in the creation of art is the focus of the LCS work. All prints are carved and printed by hand on upcycled/recycled materials.
Works41
Works41 creates unique robots out of discarded objects, garage sale trinkets, and scrap yard treasures.
Rose & Perry Co.
Rose & Perry Co. is a company that specializes in small batch, handmade, and hand-poured products using ingredients you can pronounce. We make coconut wax massage oil candles, four butter body butter, body oil, goat milk soap, cold-process soap, and so much more.
Donum Ex Machina
Donum Ex Machina sells a wide variety of 3D printed goods! From cool articulated dragons and animals to fidget and sensory objects, to functional items like containers and other things. Everything made has a lot of time put into it to ensure it comes out great.
Cheryl-Chidester-Artist
Inspired by nature, travel, adventure, and history, Cheryl blends techniques and media to explore texture, light, and color. Her diverse body of work, including holiday-themed pieces, offers unique gifts for everyone on your list!
Steve-O-Lution Studios
Come get your whimsical, artsy goods at the Steve-O-Lution Studios table. Featuring original greeting cards, stickers, buttons, postcards & more. All created by local Ypsilanti artist Steve Elliott.
Rebecca Miller Illustration
Michigan-based art studio, Rebecca Miller Illustration, creates whimsical works of art using the beautiful process of traditional woodblock/letterpress printing. Rebecca’s expertise in this art form features a unique combination of traditional print-making with nature, folklore, and animals. Find unique gifts & must-haves this holiday season: from hand-printed tote bags, tees, mugs, original art, stickers, and more!
Willow Creative
Willow Creative is bringing to this year’s Riverside Art Center Holiday Market their one-of-a-kind custom artwork inspired by all things nature. Looking unique gift for a loved one (or even something special just for you!) come check out hand-painted abstract nature paintings, handmade skeletal embroideries, and RisoGraph nature prints made from foraged seasonal material! Bringing together the beauty and the creepy of nature to appeal to all this holiday season!
Chromatoform
At Chromatoform, forget beakers and bubbling potions! This “mad scientist” of art wields a high-powered laser instead. Dylan Anderson of Chromatoform is a former physicist turned designer and fabricator based in Ann Arbor, MI. His laboratory cluttered with wood, acrylics, inks, and paints. His creations? Playful pandemonium etched into reality. A hodgepodge of materials, laser cut into humorous, retro-spooky delights. A unique mix of framed art pieces and smaller, engraved crafts. All design work and fabrication is done in the lab by Dylan himself.
Fabled Bath and Body
At Fabled Bath and Body, we hand-make our products in small batches so each product is unique. We offer an array of scents and gorgeous colors. We also make a variety of novelty soaps and gift sets for your holiday shopping. From our beautifully designed soaps, fragrances, or our menthol shower steamers, you will be able to find something to enhance your bath experience or that perfect gift for someone special.
Squish Squish Boom
Squish Squish Boom features weird and whimsical clay creations. From anthropomorphic creatures, to art celebrating the human body, to merch to honor the wonder of Ypsi.
Happy Little Whales
Stacie Benison is the creator of the colorful handmade crochet marine animals found at the Happy Little Whales booth. Their whimsical assortment of crochet turtles, whales, octopi, stingrays, axolotls, and manatees are sure to delight those of all ages. Available as keychains, ornaments, and earrings as well as catnip-filled crochet whales for cats, you are sure to find a wide-range of items at their booth. Plus, they donate 10% of each purchase to the Marine Conservation Institute to support marine conservation efforts. Stop by their booth and enjoy squishing some happy little whales and friends!
Makin It Rayna
Rachel, the creator behind Makin’ it Rayna, works from her home studio in Toledo, Ohio. She makes macrame & jewelry. She started her creative business making jewelry, beaded & wire-wrapped. She’s always loved macrame, so she taught herself how to make a plant hanger. From there, she kept learning & found a way to combine her love for macrame & jewelry. The best of both worlds!
Amanda May
Local printmaker, muralist, and creative director of Dzanc House, Amanda May Moore creates art that radiates inner peace and joy. Her minimalist designs bring calm and balance, making them the perfect addition to any home or office.
12:21 Provisions
12:21 Provisions specializes in bath and body care with an emphasis on natural and ethically sourced ingredients. Their current lineup includes, but is definitely not limited to, body oils, botanical bath salt blends, room sprays, and hair and beard oil to get you ready for the holidays. They’re so excited to help you step up the self-care routines of you and your loved ones!
Noodles Doodles Studio
Noodles Doodles Studio is a purveyor of cute critters in cozy settings. Painted in watercolor and filled with color and pattern, these pieces add cozy charm to any space.
Sacred Moon Metalworks
Erika Smith is a metalsmith out of Tipton, MI. She creates handcrafted sterling silver jewelry set with stones that celebrate the beauty and magic of nature while connecting you to the mystical energies of the universe! Each piece is small batch, slow-made made and one of a kind!
Danni Little
Danni Little is born a creator. A true Artsy Goddess. Her ideas have always been gritty, witty & raw, yet beautiful & insightful. She is a natural storyteller. The works she weaves are equal parts imaginative, futuristic, and veracious. She tells her stories in a way that keeps the mind entertained, yet makes it a priority to deliver a somatic reader response.
Jaci Riley Jewelry
Jaci’s work is fabricated from high-quality materials, is made to be long-lasting, is affordable, and is sure to make you smile!
Ambit Studio
Unique screen-printed t-shirts and magnets with a focus on nostalgic and musical designs.
Gnomemade Ceramics
Hand-painted porcelain pieces that blend tenderness and strength, each one a small story told in color and form. Thoughtful, intimate works made to bring warmth and meaning to everyday life this holiday season.
Hunt & Gather Dry Foods
At Hunt and Gather Dry Foods, we make everything by hand — from the fruits we dehydrate ourselves to our hand-labeled jars, small-batch sugars, granolas, fruit leathers, and sun teas. Every product is our own recipe, crafted with care to bring something truly special to the table.
honeydew moon studio
Honeydew Moon Studio is a small-batch ceramics studio that creates functional wares and decorative pieces, making a space for curiosity (as well as a bit of magic). Each piece is unique and represents a dedication to detail and a love of whimsy.
Emily Ferguson Designs
Emily works dominantly in watercolors and ink. Vibrant colors, unusual perspectives, and invading botany are all common elements of her work. Over the last few years, she has created a large body of work that reflects on her past memories and emotions. Her compositions are collage-based and combine plants, animals, patent drawings, and symbolism that she hand-selects and composes herself. Each piece focuses on symbolism that highlights Emily’s relationship to the subject of each individual painting.
Spare Pots
Spare Pots makes functional ceramics that are nerdy and whimsical, often including hand-painted illustrations, quirky patterns, and bright colors.
Jodi Lynn's Emporium of Doodles
Jodi Lynn’s Emporium of Doodles brings a playful twist to everyday life through hand-drawn illustrations. Jodi’s work blends pen, ink, and watercolor with digital techniques to create city portraits, whimsical animals, and colorful scenes that celebrate community and imagination. Shoppers will find art prints, stickers, greeting cards, and giftable treasures—many featuring beloved Michigan landmarks and storybook-inspired characters.
Hann of the Wood
Hannah’s work ranges from whimsical children’s book illustrations to abstract imaginings, celebrating shape, pattern and color. She splits her time between watercolor painting, block printing and fabric dyeing.
BB Press
Brittanie Bondie brings a vibrant mix of handmade paper goods to this year’s Holiday Art Fair! Explore paper collages, zines about revolution, and unique blank notebooks crafted from upcycled materials, including vintage postcards, found polaroids, cyanotypes, gelatin silver prints, and more. Each piece is a one-of-a-kind blend of art, history, and sustainability.
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels highlights one Ypsi landmark each year by presenting hand-cast, hand-painted holiday ornaments created from paintings and photos by local artists Nelson Amos and Chris Amos. 2025 celebrates the reopening of the Michigan Ave Library branch, and proceeds from all ornaments directly benefit YMOW’s home-delivered meal program to local seniors.
