2004 Florida Artists' Book Prize
Broward County Library's Bienes Center for the Literary Arts,
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 eighth annual prize of $2,000 will be awarded in 2005. An
exhibition of a selection of the entries and an award ceremony
will be held in the early Spring of 2005, in the Bienes Center
for the Literary Arts, 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 2004.
- Completed entry forms and a copy of each book must
be received in the Bienes Center by January 8th, 2005.
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 Center from mid-February to late-March 2005. The
retained books will be returned after the end of the exhibition
run.
The prize will be administered jointly by the Bienes Center for
the Literary Arts and the Florida
Center for the Book. It will be adjudicated in late January
of 2005 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 Barbara Young, Art Services, Miami-Dade Public Library.
FOR ENTRY FORM APPLY TO:
2004 Florida Artists' Book Prize
James A. Findlay, Librarian
Bienes Center for the Literary Arts
Broward County Main Library, 6th Floor
100 S. Andrews Ave.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
954-357-8692 (phone)
954-3578-6762 (fax)
jfindlay@browardlibrary.org
(e-mail)
OR DOWNLOAD IT HERE:
Entry
form (PDF):
2004 Florida Artists' Book Prize
