The Bill Farmer Project is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Omaha artist Bill Farmer and facilitating the inventory, valuation and sale of his work to benefit the Brownville Education Center for the Arts and Humanities (BECAH) in Brownville, Neb., a local nonprofit.

BECAH acquired the building housing the former Antiquarium Bookstore and its contents in 2021, which included a sizeable collection of Farmer’s paintings, sketches and other works in addition to its more than 25,000 books, manuscripts and images. The late Tom Rudloff and his late sister, Judy, founded the iconic used bookstore in downtown Omaha, Neb., in 1969. Rudloff moved the Antiquarium to an empty schoolhouse in Brownville in 2006. He passed away in 2016 at age 76.