Peter;

 

For ten years, Broward County Library’s Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library has co-sponsored with the Florida Center for the Book, an annual $2,000 Florida Artists’ Book Prize. The criteria for entering the competition are:

2007 FLORIDA ARTISTS' BOOK PRIZE

Broward County Library's Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, and the Florida Center for the Book, are pleased to announce the continuing sponsorship of the annual Florida Artists' Book Prize.

The eleventh annual prize of $2,000 will be awarded in 2008. An exhibition of a selection of the entries and an award ceremony will be held in the Spring of 2008, in the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

CRITERIA FOR ENTRY

• The entry must be created or published in an edition (i.e., more than one copy), but cannot be a trade edition (i.e., produced commercially by a publishing house for sale nationally or internationally) nor can it be a one-of-a-kind.
• The artist's primary residence must be the State of Florida.
• The book entered in the competition must have been created or published in the calendar year 2006.
• Completed entry forms and a copy of each book must be received in the Bienes Center by January 14th, 2008.

The prize-winning artists' book becomes the property of the Bienes Center. All other books entered will be returned after the judging, except those titles selected for inclusion in the Florida Artists' Book Prize Exhibition, which will tentatively be held in the galleries of the Bienes Museum from March-May 2008. The retained books will be returned after the end of the exhibition run.

The prize will be administered jointly by the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and the Florida Center for the Book. It will be adjudicated in February of 2008 by a jury comprised of: Ruth & Marvin Sackner, of the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (Miami Beach, FL); Arthur Jaffe of Florida Atlantic University's Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection of Books as Aesthetic Objects (Boca Raton, FL), and Jean Trebbi, former director of the Florida Center for the Book.

FOR ENTRY FORM APPLY TO:

2007 Florida Artists' Book Prize
Bienes Museum of the Modern Book
Broward County Main Library, 6th Floor
100 S. Andrews Ave.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

954-357-8692 (phone)
954-3578-6762 (fax)
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www.broward.org/library/bienes_prize.htm

To view the previous Florida Artists’ Book Prize exhibitions, please click on:

http://www.broward.org/library/bienes_exhibitions.htm

 

Hurrah for the book arts! The art of the book! Artists' books and artist's books! Livres d'artistes! And all those who encourage their continuance!

We are considering starting an annual/biennial Stanford student artists' book competition. While we have no specific book program, classes in the Art Dept. are offered on making photography books, plus the usual printmaking, etc.

Have any of you sponsored an artists' book competition/exhibition?

How do you judge the submissions?
Who judges the submissions?
Do not judge, just exhibit?
Prize?
Big Prize?
Exhibition?
Web site with competition specifics available?

Please respond to the list as this info will certainly be of interest to many.

Yours in Bookness, whatever form it might take,

Peter Blank

At 06:20 AM 3/15/2007, you wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I am gathering recommendations on good places/colleges/universities to study book making (artists' books). 

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has generated many fine book artists over the past thirty years and continues to offer a few courses in this area.  I know that the University of the Arts in Philadelphia has a very active program in book arts. 

Many of us have wonderful artists' book collections in our libraries, but where are the best places to learn/study this art form?

This may be of interest to others, so please reply to the arlis-l list. 

Thanks!

--Lyn


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