Westport Book Shop Announces January Art Exhibit

WESTPORT, CT — The Westport Book Shop will welcome literary and visual artist Diane Meyer Lowman as its guest exhibitor for the month of January at the book shop's Drew Friedman Art Place.

According to a news release, Lowman's art exhibit includes nine original haiku poems, each superimposed on a photograph taken by her, mostly in Westport or nearby.

"I love both the simplicity and complexity of the haiku form," Lowman said in a news release. "They’ve become a daily ritual for me, like journaling. Both the photographs and my state of mind inspire and influence them."

According to the book shop, Lowman is a poet, author and essayist whose essays have appeared in many publications, including O, The Oprah Magazine, Brevity Blog, When Women Waken and Brain, Child. She has written a memoir, "Nothing But Blue," published in November 2018.

Shortly thereafter, she received an M.A. in Shakespeare studies from the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute. In July 2019, she was named Westport's first poet laureate.

The Westport Book Shop, a nonprofit used book store located in downtown Westport, is located at 23 Jesup Road.

The art exhibit is open to the public during the book shop's business hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Lowman's work will be on exhibit through Jan. 31.

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, a trustee of the Drew Friedman Community Arts Center and a founding member of The Artists Collective of Westport, is curating these exhibits which change monthly.

Further information can be found here.