{"id":20571,"date":"2024-10-10T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=20571"},"modified":"2024-10-10T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:43:16","slug":"artisan-craft-markets-to-begin-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/artisan-craft-markets-to-begin-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Artisan craft markets to begin Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Decatur Artisan Craft Market will open its 2024-25 season this Saturday at Riverside Center, 231 E. Monroe St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours will be 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All sorts of crafts will be available for sale, along with various sweet treats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Market.jpg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Market.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Market.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Market.jpg?w=810&amp;ssl=1 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Available Saturday at artisan craft market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This will mark the first of seven craft markets held the second Saturday of each month at Riverside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ensuing dates are Nov. 9, Dec. 14, Jan. 11 Feb. 8, March 9 and April 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special craft market was held during the Kekionga Festival in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8217;23-&#8217;24 market, which also began in October and ran through April, brought in 154 artists, crafters and vendors to sell their one of-a-kind, hand-made goods in Decatur, according to Mary Montgomery Byer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market has been raising money for a splash pad since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 2023-2024 season has raised over $4,000 dollars that is earmarked for a future splash pad,\u201d Montgomery-Byer said at the conclusion of last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone interested in vendor space at the markets should contact Montgomery Byer at:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:DecaturArtisanMarket@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DecaturArtisanMarket@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The Decatur Artisan Craft Market will open its 2024-25 season this Saturday at Riverside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,56],"class_list":["post-20571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-decatur","tag-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20573,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571\/revisions\/20573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}