The Lithia Artisans Market is full of amazing and diverse jewelry artisan booths. On any given weekend you will find ten or more jewelry artists along Calle Guanajuato selling all kinds of wearable art. This season we are pleased to have added a number of new jewelry...

Lithia Artisans Market, just down from the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, is blessed this season with loads of new artists. I wrote about the "fun" new artisans last week. This week I will concentrate on some of the new artists at the market making fine art, leather...

While trying to break through a writers block this week, it dawned on me that we have a lot of new vendors this year. This is not the same old market. I often hear, from locals, that the market is the same bunch week after week. That is true on one level, many of us...

It took a little while but I finally got the music schedule for this coming weekend. Looks great, as usual. Click the link attached to Aaron Reed to see a new video that I just posted on YouTube. Here we go... Saturday, July 9 11:30 - 1:30 Martin Vee 3:00 - 5:00...

The Lithia Artisans Market has reached and surpassed two important milestones in our social networking endeavor. Within the last week this blog passed the 1000 mark for post views. In the same period our facebook page went over 100 fans! Thanks fans! For you stats...

I awoke this morning with my hands hurting. I have been grinding on stones to make beads for the last couple days. It feels good to be back to work. Hands have been on my mind these days. I keep watching my fellow artisans at the market as they weave string together,...

The Lithia Artisans Market has been part of the arts and cultural landscape of Ashland, Oregon since 1983 -- 28 years and still going strong. Back then the alley-way known as Calle Guanajuato was little more than a mess of blackberry brambles and trash. The first...

I can't think of a better place to find special something for dad than the Lithia Artisans Market. A handmade sports cap, a lathe turned fountain pen, a necklace of hand cut stone beads, an original photograph or painting -- any of these would make a nice gift for...

This is one of the busiest weekends of the summer in Ashland. It is graduation weekend for Southern Oregon University, it is our annual MidSummer's Dream Art & Music Festival, and Michael Franti is playing at Britt Festivals in Jacksonville. A new one day festival...

...is the home of the Lithia Artisans Market. You walk down the steps from the Angus Bowmer Theater, headed toward the plaza or Lithia Park, and the Lithia Artisans outdoor marketplace can be seen in the distance following the meandering alleyway of Calle Guanajuato,...