Astoria Sunday Market
is excited to welcome you to our
21st season
Astoria Sunday
Market Art by
Noel Thomas
Today’s Astoria
Sunday Market
grows on the 20 years
of markets before us!
operators in the Pacific Northwest.
The Market has created a vibrant
educational marketplace for the
community benefit.
Set on 12th Street in Downtown Astoria,
the shops, streets, and style may
have changed with the times, but the
vibrancy of the community continues
to build on our history and creativity.
The Astoria
Sunday Market
merged with the
Astoria Downtown
Historic District
Association in 2021, and together
they work to preserve and advance
historic downtown Astoria’s culture
and character through inspired
partnerships and community
engagement to support a vibrant
and resilient economic future for all
Astorians.
For 20 years, Astoria Sunday Market has
helped to revitalize historic downtown
Astoria and to improve the economic
viability and vitality of farmers, artists,
artisans and other small business
Astoria Sunday Market is a ‘Growers
& Makers Market’ with a diversity of
ever-changing products, produce,
and artists who are inspired by the
richness of our region. When you shop
at the market, you are meeting the
people who are making or growing the
products. Ask them about it! They’ll be
happy to share.
While holding the history of the
market close, ASM continues to create
new experiences, flavors, and sounds
for market-goers young and old to
discover.
We are so excited to be working with
Noel Thomas for this year’s Astoria
Sunday Market art! Since 1990, Thomas
has been painting watercolors out of
his Astoria, OR studio. Born in Longview,
WA, he studied watercolor and
graduated with distinction from Los
Angeles Art Center College.
He went on to pursue a 15-year career
in advertising art in New York and Los
Angeles. Returning to the Northwest
in 1974, Thomas continues to paint the
landscapes of his surroundings, most
notably those of Astoria.
He expressed, “I paint because I’m
excited by what is around me — the
endless subject matter here on the
Columbia river, along the roads, in
my studio. The effects of time and the
elements are what I like to explore — on
ships, buildings, the sink in my studio
which used to be a dentist’s office.
Everything has a story.”
Thomas’s watercolors can be seen at
the Riversea Gallery, Instagram
(noel_thomas_watercolors), or his
website (www.noelthomaspaints.com).
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