The Westport Book Shop is pleased to welcome local artist Miggs Burroughs as guest exhibitor for the month of February 2025, at the Book Shop’s Drew Friedman Art Place.
Miggs is exhibiting four limited edition lenticular (animated) artworks that he created especially for auction at Westport Book Sale's March 2025 benefit event. Each artwork features a pair of iconic figures -- Icons of Justice features Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy (Sr.); Icons of Courage features Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt; Icons of Innovation features John Lennon and Steve Jobs; and Icons of Style features Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana.
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. Among other things, 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.
Miggs’ artwork will be on exhibit at the Book Shop through February 28, 2025, and will be offered at silent auction at Westport Book Sale's "Growing Our Community" benefit fundraiser event on March 13, 2025. For information about the benefit, visit the "Our Events" page of the Westport Book Sale's website.
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. Miggs Burroughs, who is also a Trustee of the Drew Friedman Community Arts Center, curates the Book Shop's art exhibits, which change monthly.
To see more of Miggs Burroughs' work, visit his website: https://www.miggsb.com/