Broward County
Library’s Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and the Florida Center for the
Book are pleased to announce the winner of the 2008 Florida Artists’ Book
Prize:
Marie
Marcano
Our own Version
… of Journey to the Center of the Earth. / Written by Veronica Ortiz,
based on Jules Verne’s novel; designed by Marie Marcano. –
[Surfside, FL]: Marie Marcano, 2008. – 1 book object: illustrations; 14
cm. in diameter; (box: 21 x 28 cm. in diameter). – Edition of twenty.
– Issued in spherical acrylic ball placed inside a cardboard cylindrical
white box. – “ … This is number six of an edition of twenty.
– Spherical book: r=2.5 inkjet printed on 90 lb. watercolor paper.
Typeface: Myriad Roman. Glued. Spherical acrylic box. Cardboard cylindrical white
box. Inside lined with inkjet-printed watercolor paper.”
Marie
Marcano was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and lives in Surfside, Florida. She has
an MFA from Miami International University of Art & Design; a BFA from the
Corcoran College of Art & Design (Washington, D.C.); and has also studied
in Caracas, Venezuela, and Rome, Italy. She has exhibited at numerous foreign
and US galleries, including the Jaffe Atrium Book Arts Gallery at Florida
Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington,
D.C.), and the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book (Ft. Lauderdale, FL). She was
awarded Honorable Mentions, 2003 and 2004 Florida Artists’ Book Prize.
2008
Judges:
Dr.
Marvin and Ruth Sackner, Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry (Miami,
FL);
http://www.rediscov.com/sacknerarchives/
Arthur
Jaffe, Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts (Boca Raton, FL);
http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/jaffe.htm
Jean
Trebbi, former Director of the Florida Center for the Book (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
http://www.broward.org/library/fcftb_welcome.htm
Kate
Rawlinson, Assistant Director, Education, The Wolfsonian-FIU (Miami Beach, FL).
To view
the winning book, please visit:
http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/2008fabp&CISOPTR=86&REC=5
To view the
on-line exhibition, please visit:
http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/web2008fabp/index.html
To view a
copy of the printed exhibition catalog, please visit:
http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/2008fabp&CISOPTR=689&REC=3
To order a
complimentary copy of the 14-page all-color printed exhibition catalog, please
write to the address below.
James (Jim)
A. Findlay
Bienes Museum Librarian
Broward
County Library -- Main Library
954-357-8692
(office)
954-357-6762
(fax)
Main
Library
Bienes
Museum of the Modern Book
The
Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library
100 S.
Andrews Ave.
Ft.
Lauderdale, FL 33301
www.broward.org/library/bienes_about.htm
WPA Children's Books (1935-1943) by the Pennsylvania Writers' Project,
the New York City New Reading Materials Program, and the Milwaukee Handicraft
Project
October 13-March 15, 2009
Please
visit the virtual exhibition at:
http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/
OPENING
SOON:
2008 Florida Artists' Book Prize
March 25-June 19, 2009