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The Book Arts Prize Competition is a juried award given every year in recognition of excellence in the creation of a hand printed and bound book, letterpress printed piece, or hand binding made in the Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth Libraries. The prizes are made possible by the generous support of the Friends of the Library. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
Book Arts Grand Prize
A $500 cash prize will be awarded to any original book made by a current Dartmouth College undergraduate or graduate student that combines letterpress printing and hand bookbinding. The book should be printed (at least partially) in the Letterpress Studio and bound in the Open Studio sessions at the Book Arts Workshop. The book may be a project made for a curricular course or as an extra-curricular project.
Letterpress Printing Prize
A $150 cash prize will be given for the best example of letterpress printing created and produced in the Letterpress Studio of the Book Arts Workshop by a current Dartmouth College undergraduate or graduate student. Submissions may be a single broadside (minimum dimensions 11" x 17") or a collection of at least 3 printed items, either related thematically or unrelated. The print or prints may be from a curricular or extra-curricular project.
Hand Bookbinding Prize
A $150 cash prize will be given for the best example of a hand bound book created and produced in the Open Studio sessions by a current Dartmouth College undergraduate or graduate student. The book may contain blank, letterpress printed, or pre-printed pages. The text will be judged only in how the content relates to the binding style and materials used. Entries may not include instructional models made in curricular or Book Arts Workshop classes.
Artist Book
A $150 cash prize will be given for the best example of a book that expresses and/or challenges the book form. It must have been created and produced in the Book Arts Workshop by a current Dartmouth College undergraduate or graduate student.
Zine
A $150 cash prize will be given for the best example of a book or zine created expressly to communicate with as large an audience as possible, cheaply and outside traditional publishing methods. May be created with analog methods or digitally. Must be an edition of at least 10. It must have been created and produced with assistance from the Book Arts Workshop by a current Dartmouth College undergraduate or graduate student.
The Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth Libraries is fortunate to enjoy the participation of a local community of bookbinders, printers, and book artists. The Book Arts Workshop will offer a cash prize of $150 to this part of our constituency in recognition of excellence in book arts. Submission may take any one of the following forms:
All entries must be an original project conceived of and produced in the Workshop studios.
The contest is limited to undergraduate and graduate students of Dartmouth College or members of the community as noted. The entry must be completed between May 31, 2023 and May 28, 2024. Prize winners must have distributed their type before any prize will be awarded.
NOTE: All prize winning pieces will be displayed throughout the following summer and fall terms.
Entries are due by 5:00pm, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Bring entries to the Library Book Arts Workshop, Baker Library Room 25. Submission forms are available in the Book Arts Workshop or may be downloaded.
For more information contact us at book.arts@dartmouth.edu or visit us in the Book Arts Workshop, Baker-Berry Library.
Rooms 21-25
25 North Main St
Hanover, NH 03755
Sarah Marcella Parella teaches letterpress printing, bookbinding, and other aspects of bookmaking. She works closely with faculty to create hands-on projects to strengthen the impact of their coursework—and with students and non-students on their extra-curricular projects. Sarah also produces books, prints and comics in the realm of nonsense and absurdity. Her work can be found in various collections such as MOMA Artist Book Collection; Printed Matter; The Banff Center; The Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley; Special Collections, University of Otago, NZ and others.
Deborah Howe is the Collections Conservator at Dartmouth College Library. Previously, she headed the conservation lab at Northwestern University Library. In addition to her conservation work she has been actively involved in teaching book arts. She has taught at Columbia Center for Paper and Book, the Newberry Library, the Paper and Book Intensive and currently binding classes at the Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth. She is a long-standing member of the Guild of Book Workers and is on the board of directors of the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.
Won K. Chung teaches typographic design through a series of term-long workshops called Letterpress Intensive which focuses on fine typesetting and printing. Before retiring from corporate design work, he also taught typography and design courses at RISD, Art Institute of Boston, and the University of the Arts.
Emma is an artist who is primarily interested in facilitating creative encounters with the more-than-human world. They teach hand papermaking, bookmaking, printmaking, and natural dye and ink-making in the Book Arts Workshop, and have collaborated with the Dartmouth O Farm to grow a garden of traditional dye plants for use in fibercraft and art-making.