Co-op Artisan Fair!
Saturday, 6/28/2025
Join us for our second arts and craft fair on Saturday, June 28th from 11am – 4pm outdoors on the patio at River Valley Co-op Easthampton!
The River Valley Co-op Artisan Fair is a one-day event that will showcase a wide range of artwork and crafts created by local artisans, with the goods being on display and for sale. Local artists who create original handmade artwork and wares (see list of items below) are invited to apply to be part of the fair, with participants retaining 100% of the proceeds from their sales. We are not accepting additional artists at this time.
Our goal is to create a fun, family-friendly event that is diverse, inclusive, accessible for all, and showcases a range of voices and perspectives while coming together to celebrate the fantastic artists and makers who make our community and region so special! This event is free to attend. Everyone is welcome!
Featuring live music by Sasha K.A
Click on the artists below to learn more!
Dani Antes is a self-taught queer artist living in Chicopee, MA. Working primarily in watercolor and linocuts, she hopes her works remind people of the beauty and magic all around them.
Tiny magical woodland vignettes exploring Earth cycles, mortality and meaning through the eyes of the forests, waterworlds, and the underearth.
Eva Cappelli, owner of Bits & Bobs in Easthampton, specializes in uniquely handmade dragon eyes, decorated boxes, cans, bottles, journals, and jewelry.
Abby Bonnazino
Painting • Prints • Cards
I make small prints, stickers, and cards of my gouache paintings and colored pencil drawings. My subjects are mostly plants, flowers, and animals!
Cason Crochet specializes in crochet plushies and snugglers using incredibly soft yarn and embroidered eye details. These cozy items are perfect for babies, toddlers, kids, and the young at heart!
Connected Root Designs
Switchplate Designs
Ruth Ever makes upcycled paper collage light switch covers of all sizes and shapes for all ages and rooms. Covers range from colorful, soothing, and whimsical to geometric. Each is unique. Check your sizes before you come!
The Fantasies of Youth by interdisciplinary artist Elayna Sturm (they/them) blends plants, queerness, quilts, and yearnings of interconnectedness into buoying imagery for hearts and spirits alike.
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Amalia FourHawks is a Native artist specializing in designs from her Southwestern heritage. She creates beadwork, turquoise jewelry, and beaded leather-covered treasure boxes in a variety of shapes and sizes.
Mary Walsh Martel creates vibrant, nature-inspired watercolor paintings of florals, animals and landscapes, with luminous colors and striking lights and shadows. Originals, prints, cards, and wood-mounted miniatures are available.
Hobbit Hollow Herbals
Bath & Body
Nature-inspired wellness for self and at home, made with local ingredients like wild-crafted herbs from our own gardens & local farms, beeswax from a local apiary, and tallow from Corsello Butcheria in Easthampton.
Hoop & Bee is a modern quilting studio in Easthampton, MA, offering quilted greeting cards, small quilts, and small-scale textile artistic works.
Julia Eden Art
Paintings • Prints • Cards
Artist Julia McGlew works in watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and oil. She has been painting nature, surreal scenes, portraits, media-inspired art and other subjects since childhood, using art to connect with herself, nature and others.
Functional! Experimental! Iterative! Playful! Elegant! Exploratory! Sometimes even evocative! Everything is made with clay. Mugs, bowls, plates, pitchers, teapots, vases, flower pots, and almost anything else your heart desires!
Amy Dawn Kotel
Paintings • Mixed Media
Colorful circle-filled landscapes, vivid abstracts and bright animals and creatures are some of the subjects of my work. I create mixed media originals, shirts with prints of my art and other pieces, and a variety of cards.
Little Green Toaster
Mixed Media
Artist Adam Connor is a compulsive doodler inspired by 80s and 90s cartoons, toys, movies, comics, and anything else that makes him feel nostalgic.
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Madelyn Bess Earrings are colorful, playful and whimsical. Each unique bead is handpicked with care, and every pair is a fun adornment to any individual style!
Sarah Marquesen
Paintings • Mixed Media
The Shiny Bunny offers products created to bring smiles and speak to the heart of animal lovers! We offer paintings, magnets, greetings cards and more. Come see the famous Emotional Support Pickle!
Martha McCormick
Decorative Fiber
I create hand-embroidered and embellished pillows, framed hand-embroidered and embellished pieces, and fabric bunting ("banners") for home décor; great for children’s rooms, porches, and more!
Grace Nowakoski
Handmade Baby Shoes
I make soft soled baby and toddler shoes from repurposed leather upholstery samples and bike inner tubes. They leave plenty of space in the toe-box for children's developing feet, and are great for new walkers and active kids!
Old Island Stitch
Decorative Fiber
Old Island Stitch makes embroidered cocktail napkins and towels, as well as handmade artist smocks, gardening smocks, and lavender sachets!
Passionato Books
Handmade Books
Laurel Rogers' handmade books are sewn with a coptic binding and sized for pockets, briefcases, or gallery installations. Covers are made with marbled papers, paste papers, Japanese paper, handmade paper, and design papers.
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I am a local potter hand building one-of-a-kind functional, often-whimsical stoneware pieces for the home and garden. All work is food-safe, microwave and dishwasher-safe and has been created with care.
Piccolo Stitchworks
Handmade Doll Clothes
Visit Piccolo Stitchworks to meet the Piccolo Farm Friends. Expand your doll’s wardrobe with additional clothing, or shop the selection of sewing and knitting patterns and make your own doll fashions!
Poetry on the Spot
Five-Minute Poems
Having a poem written just for you is fun, heartfelt, and sometimes unexpectedly touching. Poetry on the spot invites vulnerability, trust and a chance to be truly seen.
I make bead crochet bracelets and necklaces with a focus on pride colors and snake patterns. Each piece is made using all-natural materials including cotton, glass, metal and stone.
Retired Rope Rugs
Woven Mats • Pottery
We are Easthampton crafters. Marci throws clay vases and planters, while Dan diverts retired climbing ropes from going to the landfill and turns them into woven rugs.
Photo greeting cards featuring reflections, vibrant flowers, curious creatures and street art. Each card features a real photo print, mounted on archival card stock, hand-signed, and ready for a 5 x 7 frame.
The McCoys make artisan soaps, lotions, shaving soaps, and pet shampoos in small, handmade batches using milk from their own Easthampton, MA, goat farm with other natural ingredients.
Siena makes functional dinnerware pieces in unique colors and patterns from brown & white stoneware clay. All of her pieces are all dishwasher, microwave, and food safe. She takes commissions if you want something specific!
Steerage Rock Stitching
Flannel Towels
Gail Modugno makes flannel paper towels as a practical substitution for traditional paper towels! Made from 100% pre-washed cotton flannel. Use, wash, repeat—and smile because your footprint just got smaller!
Fun and functional, with eye-catching color combinations and whimsical designs, handmade in Easthampton. They make great gift ideas, kitchen wares, home decor, and holiday decorations!
Terry Walters is an award-winning author and educator with 4 plant-based GF cookbooks. Her latest, NOURISH: Plant-based Recipes to Feed Body Mind and Soul, is self-published (printed in MA) and a Nautilus Silver Award Winner.
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Local painter Lois Barber creates watercolor paintings of whimsical "Birdz" and lovely landscapes.
Whisker Woods Pottery offers handmade pieces crafted by Alani Iannoli in Belchertown, MA. Inspired by nature, the pottery features vibrant colors and unique techniques like hand-carving and hand-painting.
Location: Easthampton Store • 228 Northampton St, Easthampton, MA