Stoughton Street was covered in art last Saturday. Children drew on the ground, music boomed down the block, and vendors and artists lined the street for the fourth annual Uphams Corner Street Festival and birthday celebration for the Fairmount Cultural Corridor.

“We want to celebrate the community,” said Val Daley, director of Upham’s Corner Main Streets, which hosts the festival. The event was not as large as others had been in the past, she said, as other Roxbury/Dorchester events took place that same afternoon. However, there was a steady flow of visitors through the area, especially around the two food trucks parked near the Columbia Road intersection.

Vendors displayed jewelry, scarves, even shoes along the blocked-off portion of the street. It is important, Daley said, to allow locals to “access the creative economy.” Some selling their wares were part of UP Market, which aims to support local artists, crafters, and creative small businesses.

Though the Fairmount Cultural Corridor is three years old, Saturday marked the first partnered celebration of the group’s birthday. They hope to expand with similar events along the Fairmount Corridor, said Ramona Lisa Alexander, the arts and culture manager of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), which is part of the Fairmount Culture Corridor.

“Interest ebbs and flows,” Alexander said. “The more people see stuff like this in Boston,  the more and more they expect it.”

The cultural group’s Uphams Corner origins are vital, she said, and they pull from local artistic talent through an artist-in-residency program. “There are so many diverse artists around who are doing this -- coming out because they want to sell in their market,” Alexander said.

Nansi Guevara, a DSNI artist-in-residence who works with public school students, assisted another artist at the festival. At a table strewn with bright yellow fake flowers, attendees created small bouquets, wrapping the flowers with thick ribbons. They wrote their favorite location and an explanation on the ribbons, with the promise that the artist would deliver the flowers to that place.

Offering public events of this sort helps expose neighbors to artistic resources they may be aware of but rarely encounter, Guevara said. “I am very social justice-centered and I feel strongly that I need to be connected to communities,” specifically communities of color, she said. “Events like this help folks engage with the arts, and ... art is essential to help us think in a different way.”