Lace curtains, Skene Manor, Whitehall, N.Y.

Maria and I are excited about the Creative Union: Affordable Art Show Christine Nemec of the Redux Gallery is hosting at her great gallery in Dorset, Vt. next month.

We are celebrating love, marriage, and most of all, affordable art – potholders, photographic notecards, cell phone cases, eyeglass cases (Maria is getting a bunch of orders for her new e-book bags, soon to be inscribed with quotes and titles. I admire the way she fuses art with contemporary technology. Functional.). Nothing more than $15. Notecards are my medium of distribution for the photographs, which I also encourage people to download for free and use any way they wish. I think they are nice as notecards, I have to say.

Maria and I will be at the show, along with a dog or two between 1 and 4 p.m., Saturday, July 24. Dorset is a great place to visit. The Dorset Inn, a wonderful inn and restaurant is right across the street from the Redux Gallery, and nearby Manchester, Vt.  has great  discount outlets and good restaurants.

Christine is selling them as single cards for $5 in limited quanities and five-packs for $15. We are introducing some new notecards – Donkeys, Rose at Work, Stonewalls. These are available for viewing and purchase on her website. People who can’t make it to Redux can still purchase this art by contacting Christine at Redux.

There is a point to the show, beyond showing and selling the stuff we love. This is a tough time for art and artists. Maria and I believe in changing notions about selling and pricing art. We hope to remind people that art is important. We hope to present it in ways that are affordable, and in forms that can brighten, inspire and life people up. I think this show will be a lot of fun. It is designed so that everybody can take something if they wish.