Westport Book Shop Welcomes April Art Exhibitor Miggs Burroughs

Press release from the Westport Book Shop:

April 11, 2023

WESTPORT, CT —The Westport Book Shop is very pleased to present Miggs Burroughs as its guest art exhibitor for the month of April, at the Book Shop’s Drew Friedman Art Place. Miggs will be exhibiting “Signs of Compassion”, an artwork that is a composite of 30 individual lenticular images, each showing a member of the Westport community using American Sign Language to sign a word or phrase from an Emily Dickinson poem about compassion. A larger version of this artwork is scheduled to be exhibited in the lobby of the United Nations building at a later date.

Miggs Burroughs is a lifelong Westport resident, and a full-time graphic artist. He has designed hundreds of logos, ads, brochures and websites for commercial and non-profit clients throughout Fairfield County. He also designed the Westport Town Flag, a U.S. postage stamp, an Easter Egg for the Reagan White House, and four covers for TIME Magazine, one of which, along with the Easter Egg, resides in the Smithsonian Institution. Miggs’ work with lenticular imagery has been exhibited in several one-man shows, and includes “Tunnel Vision”, his permanent lenticular installation in downtown Westport. Miggs is a co-founder of the Artists Collective of Westport. Miggs is also an author — his “The What If? Book of Questions” was published in 2012. Miggs has twice been honored as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Westport Rotary, as one of the YMCA’s Faces of Achievement, and as Volunteer of the Year by CLASP of Westport, Save Westport Now, First Night of Westport, and STAR of Norwalk, among others.

Westport Book Shop, a nonprofit used book store, is downtown Westport’s only source for gently used and antiquarian books, vintage vinyl records, CDs, DVDs and audio books. It is located at 23 Jesup Road, right across Jesup Green from the Westport Library.

The Book Shop’s “Drew Friedman Art Place” is an area of the store dedicated to exhibiting the work of community artists year-round, on a rotating basis. The Westport Book Shop is honored to have Miggs Burroughs serve as curator of these exhibits, which change monthly.

The art exhibit is open to the public during the Book Shop’s business hours: Sundays and Mondays from Noon to 5 p.m., and Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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