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 on
February 21, 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 2007.
- DEADLINE FOR
ENTRY: Completed entry forms and a copy of each book must be received in
the Bienes Museum by January 14th, 2008.
- The prize may
be won by the same artist only two years in a row. Artists who have won the
prize two years in a row are encouraged to enter a book(s) the third year,
but it will not be eligible to win.
The prize-winning artists' book becomes the property of the Bienes Museum.
All other books entered will be returned after the judging, except those titles
selected for inclusion in the Florida
Artists' Book Prize Exhibition and Award Ceremony. 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 early 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 (Ft.
Lauderdale, FL).
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); 954-357-6762 (fax)
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James (Jim) A. Findlay
Bienes Museum of the Modern Book
The Dianne and Michael
Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library
Broward
County
Main Library
100 S. Andrews Ave.
Ft.
Lauderdale,
FL 33301
954-357-8692 (office)
954-357-6762 (fax)
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Current Exhibition:
Series Americana: An Exhibition of Selected Post Depression-Era
Regional Literature from the Collection of Carol Fitzgerald
October 25, 2007 - January
8, 2008
Please visit the virtual
exhibition at:
http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/seriesamericana.html