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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 2009 Florida Artists’ Book Prize of $2,000:

WINNER

Knudson, Ellen

Wild girls redux: an operator’s manual / Ellen Knudson. – [Gainesville, FL]: Crooked Letter Press, 2009.

1 v. (unpaged) in envelope with tag; color illustrations; 22.5 x 13 x 1 cm.

[Edition: #10 of 100. – Cover title. – “… is the revisit of a book created almost 12 years ago. The original book, How to Become One of the Original Girls, was designed and printed in 1997. That book is a playful list of imaginary “rules” that “should” be followed to achieve Wild Girl status. The rules are light-hearted, but they have the sting of recognition that most women realize to be sexist in nature. Wild Girls Redux reexamines these issues, using motorcycle road and driving rules as text along with images of pin-up girls and industrial schematic illustrations. The tactile materials of the book include pink heart paper doilies, white doily placemats, flocked paper covers, and green office ledger papers. The intent of the “Operator’s Manual” is tongue-in-cheek and provides the ordinary, mechanical, and absurd rules of how to operate women.” – Artist’s statement. – “Wild Girls Redux. Designed and letterpress printed from photopolymer plates by Ellen Knudson. Crooked Letter Press, 2009. Text adapted from the Missouri Operator Manual. Typefaces are Blue Highway, French Cursive, and Cooper Black. Paper is Indian Sunn Hemp Contemporary. Cover is flocked paper in maroon. Lining paper is Hahnemühle Bugra in Fawn. This is copy 10 of 100. [signed] Ellen Knudson.” – Colophon]

To view the winning artists’ book, please visit:

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/2009fabp&CISOPTR=126&REC=1

The two finalists were:

Rosemarie Chiarlone, for her artists’ book “Vortex”:

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/2009fabp&CISOPTR=265&REC=5

Tennille Shuster, for her artists’ book “Walking in circles”:

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/2009fabp&CISOPTR=227&REC=7

To view the 27 other artists’ books entered in the competition, please visit the online exhibit:

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/2009fabp/index.html

To view the 14-page printed exhibition catalog, please visit:

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/2009fabp&CISOPTR=296&REC=11

To receive a complimentary copy of the printed exhibition catalog, please contact: