Riverside Arts Market (RAM)
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| Location | 715 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, FL |
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| Organised by | Riverside Avondale Preservation |
| Website | https://riversideartsmarket.com/ |
The Riverside Arts Market (RAM) of Jacksonville, Florida is a weekly arts-and-crafts market featuring live music, food, art, and fresh produce. It first opened to the public in March 2008 and currently opens every Saturday 10AM-3PM ET rain or shine, April to December. The marketplace includes a 350-person amphitheater known as Northbank Riverwalk Artists’ Square and forms the terminus for the Northbank Riverwalk.
RAM is a program of Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP), a neighborhood advocacy not-for-profit 501(c)3. RAP works to enhance and preserve the architecture, history, cultural heritage and economic viability of the historic neighborhoods of Riverside and Avondale in Jacksonville through programs such as the Riverside Arts Market and the Home Tour. The area that houses the Riverside Arts Market had originally been designated as an area for a retention pond with a chain-link fence around it. The founder of RAP, Wayne Wood, a Jacksonville activist and retired optometrist who moved to Jacksonville in 1971, saw potential for a greater use of the area and worked to model the Riverside Arts Market for a similar farmers' market concept in Portland, Oregon.
The market made the transition to a producer-only market in 2016 to promote locally grown food. As a producer-only market, only true local farms are allowed as vendors. Also in 2016, RAM began participating in both the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Fresh Access Bucks (FAB) programs.
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