Contemporary Art In A Dairy Barn

WOODBURY — The Third Annual Open Studios in a Dairy Barn, at 580 Upper Grassy Hill Road, will be held this year on Saturday, April 28, and Sunday, April 29. The public is invited to visit the barn any time between 2 and 5 pm on either day to see the work of five artists and to talk with them.

Artists this year are pastel artist and oil painter Melody Asbury; fiber artist Anna Barnes; landscape painter Christopher Clapp; printmaker and professional print dealer Marc Chabot; and batik artist, printmaker, collage and ceramic artist M. G. Martin.

The barn is a building of two eras: one barn built probably in the 19th Century and the “new” barn built onto the old one during the 1940s when there was a needed milk supply during WWII. Grass for the cow’s hay covered a very large area around here and so the location was named Grassy Hill.

The barn was abandoned in about 1955 and ten years later was purchased by a couple of artists — M. G. Martin and Roger Barnes — who converted it into a home with art studios.

For further information, call Ms Martin at 203-263-3908 or e-mail her at

 MGMartinStudios@charter.net.