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The free Providence market features handmade small businesses from Rhode Island and beyond, with New Harvest Coffee and food trucks also listed.
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PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday brings handmade small businesses from Rhode Island and beyond to the WaterFire Arts Center, a former manufacturing building now used as an arts venue. The combination gives the market a Providence setting and a wider-than-local maker brief.
Providence Artisans Market describes this as its second Small Business Saturday event. The listing offers a broad shopping focus—handmade businesses from Rhode Island and beyond—but names no makers or craft categories to help visitors plan around a particular item.
New Harvest Coffee and food trucks are also announced, though the trucks, menus and prices are not specified. The WaterFire calendar lists PVD Artisans Holiday Premiere on Nov. 15 and PVD Artisans Holiday Shows on Dec. 12–13 as separate events; those dates are not additional sessions of the Nov. 28 market.
Further reading: PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday - WaterFire Providence ↗ · WaterFire Arts Center Event Calendar - WaterFire Providence ↗
The WaterFire Arts Center is in Providence’s Valley neighborhood, within the Valley Arts District. Its building was constructed in 1929 as a multi-purpose manufacturing facility for the US Rubber Company. WaterFire purchased it in 2012 and completed the renovation in May 2017.
The 37,000-square-foot center now serves as WaterFire’s first permanent home in the community and as a multi-use arts venue. That industrial history gives this market a local setting distinct from a conventional retail space.
Further reading: Explore the WaterFire Arts Center - WaterFire Providence ↗ · Exploring the WaterFire Arts Center and the Valley Neighborhood - WaterFire ProvidenceClose ↗
The listing gives the market hours as 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday - WaterFire Providence ↗ · WaterFire Arts Center Event Calendar - WaterFire Providence ↗
475 Valley Street, Providence, RI 02908.
PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday - WaterFire Providence ↗
The event listing states free admission and free parking. It does not identify a parking area or give event-specific arrival instructions.
PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday - WaterFire Providence ↗
The event notice does not state an age limit or registration requirement, or describe event-specific accessibility arrangements.
PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday - WaterFire Providence ↗
This market is at the Arts Center, not WaterFire’s downtown riverfront lighting site. The event listing gives the address as 475 Valley Street, Providence, RI 02908, but no event-specific entrance or transit directions. The map links can calculate directions from your starting point; the listing advertises free parking without naming a lot.
PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday - WaterFire Providence ↗ · Parking and Directions - WaterFire Providence ↗
Yes. The event listing advertises both free admission and free parking; it does not identify the parking area.
PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday - WaterFire Providence ↗
The listing does not name individual makers, craft categories or food trucks, and it gives no menus or prices. It does name New Harvest Coffee.
PVD Artisans Small Business Saturday - WaterFire Providence ↗
No. WaterFire lists the Holiday Premiere on Nov. 15 and Holiday Shows on Dec. 12–13 separately from the Nov. 28 Small Business Saturday market.
WaterFire Arts Center Event Calendar - WaterFire Providence ↗
475 Valley Street, Providence, RI 02908
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Event, planning and background information checked 2026-10-31 against the linked sources.