Come listen to an inspiring conversation between Artist Collective of Westport's Miggs Burroughs with Dick Rauh about his current exhibit in the Sheffer Gallery, A Botanical Retrospective, currently on view in the Library's Sheffer Gallery. The conversation will take place on stage in the Trefz Forum on Sunday, January 29, from 2 to 4 pm.

Rauh came to botanical painting in retirement, after a career in motion picture special effects. In addition to earning a certificate in botanical illustration from The New York Botanical Garden, in 2001 he received his doctorate in plant sciences from the City University of New York. Rauh's work won the Gold Medal and "Best in Show" awards at the 2006 Royal Horticultural Society Show in London.