The Westport Book Shop is pleased to welcome  mixed media artist George Radwan as guest exhibitor for the month of March at the Book  Shop’s Drew Friedman Art Place. 

George is exhibiting a group of birdhouses inspired by the shacks he saw years ago in the township of Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also showing a  few small, mixed media pieces, constructed of found and repurposed materials. 

George Radwan grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from the Art Center College  of Design in Los Angeles with a BFA in Advertising Design. After graduation, he worked for  more than a decade as an art director in various Madison Avenue advertising agencies in New  York, including a two-year stint at agencies in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Hong Kong.  Today he is a project manager at VCA Inc., a high-end custom architectural woodworking and  furniture company. 

George Radwan’s artwork will be on exhibit at the Book Shop through March 31, 2023.  All artwork on display is available for purchase. 

To see more of George’s work, visit his website: https://georgeradwan.com 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. 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. 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.     

Westport Book Shop, and the Westport Library Book Sales, are operated by Westport  Book Sale Ventures, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit enterprise with the dual social mission to  provide meaningful employment for adults with disabilities, while raising support for The  Westport Library, through used book sales. In addition to the nonprofit Westport Book Shop,  gently used books are also offered for sale online on the company’s website  www.westportbooksaleventures.org/shop and through our eBay store at www.ebay.com/str/ westportbooksalesct, as well as at periodic large book sale events (the next book sale event is  scheduled for May 5 through 8, 2023, inside the Westport Library). For more information, or  to make a charitable donation, please visit our website at www.westportbooksaleventures.org  

Westport Book Sale Ventures welcomes volunteers for all aspects of our operations,  from book donation receipt and sorting, to preparing for and working at book sale events, to  work in our online sales operation, and at the Westport Book Shop. For more information, and  to get involved, please visit www.westportbooksales.org or send an email to  info@westportbooksales.org