This beautiful oil painting is by Robert Nunnelly and hangs in the “Dish” restaurant in Greenwich, N.Y., one of our favorite places to eat.

On June 4th and 5th, The Bedlam Farm Pig Barn Gallery, a project of my wife Maria Wulf, will present its first art show in the Pig Barn at Bedlam Farm. The public is invited. The hours are tentatively set for 10 to 4, Saturday and Sunday. Further details available on Maria’s website.

The show is called “From The Everyday To Art,” and will focus on found objects and other mundane and ordinary objects that are made into art. Diane Swanson (who helped organized the wildly successful Gallery 99 show) will present her paintings, including some that incorporate computer parts. Jack Metzger of Cambridge, N.Y.,  will show his photographs and sculptures made from found objects. Maria will present potholders, quilts (I’m pestering her to sell her sketches, but she hasn’t decided.) Serena Kovalosky of Whitehall, the founder of the Open Studios Tours in Washington County,  will show her much decorated and honored gilded and painted gourds. And I will be showing and selling notecards and two or three photographs that Maria is choosing. Maria has some very different ideas about presenting and selling art, but she can speak for herself.

This is Maria’s project and her show. The Pig Barn Gallery was her idea, and she is curating, choosing the arts, and fixing up the Pig Barn, a small and beautiful barn behind the farmhouse.

A reminder that this is an art show, not a dog or animal show.

It’s been suggested that we are nuts to open the farm to the public, but I’m not worried, and we will have some help on hand. I think this is a great use of one of our beautiful barns, which sits empty most of the time. Maria is putting in lights, but has decided to otherwise keep the Pig Barn intact. It still has the stone cauldron where many a pig met their end.

Maria plans a number of shows in the Pig Barn. This is the first public event offered at Bedlam Farm, and while it poses some challenges, we both think it’s time. It’s a big step for us, the farm and Maria. She has a lot of ideas about art, the space and future shows. So the public is invited.  Attendance is free.

All the art will be offered for sale and cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted.