Library Fellows Program Winning Book Selections Submission Guidelines Current Selection  |  2000-2007 |  1995-1999  |1990-1994
	2000 Zones of Time, Sand and Rain Nelleke Nix In Zones of Time, Sand and Rain, Nelleke Nix portrays the flora and fauna of Costa Rica in a colorful compilation. Handwritten in the ancient lettering of the Middle Ages, with pages of text and prints layered to suggest the fallen leaves on the forest floor, the book contains several stories and anecdotes about conservation efforts. Also included is a digital print of a Leatherback turtle laying her eggs, with the tale of a team of ecologists helping the injured turtle dig her nest. Available: $300.00. Shop
	2001 Redressing the Sixties, (art) lessons á la mode Susan E. King Part memoir, part cultural artifact, Redressing the Sixties is King's witty, whimsical recollection of the influences on her life related to clothing and fashion. Growing up in Kentucky during the 1960s and 1970s, she coped with the universal challenges of being a teenager and national traumas like the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassinations. The book contains 14 original prose pieces by King along with texts she selected to provide commentary, ranging from film dialogue to artist Dora Carrington's biography. Available: $450.00. Shop
	2002 Kimono/Kosode Carol Schwartzott Artist Carol Schwartzott's Kimono/Kosode evokes the many graceful layers of traditional Japanese dress. It employs the repeated design of a cutout kimono shape and tri-fold panels covered with Japanese Chiyogami papers of varied patterns and related colors. The edition is produced in five colorways: blue, black, red, green, and brown. Kimono/Kosode has a hinged construction of basswood dowels with six rigid sections, each forming one tri-fold page. The book lies flat, but when it is displayed on its edge with the pages flipped open a tiny multidimensional theater appears and the kimono becomes a window. Each tri-fold section also contains a text giving a brief history of the kimono, printed letterpress on hand-dyed Japanese Yohko paper that floats against a mat-board surface. The book resides in a matching slipcase; dimensions are 11 inches high by six inches wide by two inches deep. Available: $450.00. Shop
	2003 WorldWise Linda K. Johnson WorldWise juxtaposes copies of visually and historically rich 19th-century maps with ancient proverbs from all corners of the earth. Thirty-two proverbs from cultures as diverse as Australian Aboriginal, Yiddish and Tibetan are presented in four small folded-book sections agaist a backdrop of old-world maps. The assembled book is a circle within a square, the circular shape of the case representing the world and the four book sections its four corners. Each of the four maps open to form a four point star and closes to a square that is housed in one of the four compartments of the circular case. Available: $225.00. Shop
	2005 Woman Concerned in Art... Vera Khlebnikova Russian artist Vera Khlebnikova was awarded the 2005 Library Fellows Award for her artist’s book Woman Concerned in Art…With the fall of Soviet communism in the late 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalizing social policy of perestroika relaxed restrictions on individual freedoms. As censorship declined, individuals began placing newspaper ads to search for long-lost relatives, offer paid services, and advertise items for sale. “Behind those very short texts, we could clearly see an image of the person who was writing them,” Khlebnikova says. Her artist’s book adopts the format of a tabloid newspaper to bring those strangers to life. Along with copies of real classified ads from Russian newspapers, Klebnikova juxtaposes antique photographs inherited from her family. On each page, as text and image unite, personal stories of longing, joy, and tragedy are recreated. Available: $400.00 Shop
	2006 Thoughts on Color, Color of Thoughts Beth Weiss Beth Weiss of Bismarck, North Dakota, designed Thoughts on Color, Color of Thoughts as a tribute to the creative process, and her own creativity has earned her the 2006 NMWA Library Fellows Award. The colorful pages are illuminated by the words of brilliant minds from Albert Einstein to Georgia O'Keeffe, extolling the interrelation of music, writing, and the visual arts. William Massey's poem "Wondrous Mystic Art" is the central piece. A thin strip of marbled Tsunami Thai paper glitters along the spine; a circular die cut reveals the title of the book in elegant calligraphy. Weiss' elaborate calligraphy designs and ambigrams were silk-screened onto the delicate paper that was handmade in the Philippines. The brilliant pages were folded into different sizes and adhered together on hand-sewn tyvek tabs in a multitiered arrangement, such that each page-turn presents a vibrant new color scheme, concealing and revealing several visual puns which, Weiss hopes, will "ignite creativity in each viewer." Available: $350.00 Shop
	2007 Everything and Everyone: In the End We All Are One Sarah B. Pohlman Sarah B. Pohlman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the recipient of the 2007 Library Fellows Award for her book Everything and Everyone: In the End We All Are One. In her work, Pohlman maps the human journey through vivid colors and imaginative landscapes. For her winning book, the artist took inspiration from forms in nature and human biology, using these images to draw connections between inward growth, physical journeys, and the interconnectedness of all human beings. Everything and Everyone’s accordion structure can be flipped though traditionally, or extended to reveal a continuous landscape that interweaves image and text. The handmade cover and spine papers are screen-printed and hand-painted by Pohlman--the brown paper and green design conveying the organic themes represented within. The interior pages reproduce Pohlman’s artwork and are printed using offset lithography. The physical structure of the book and its images invite the reader to reflect as we “go,” “question,” “connect,” “struggle,” and “love.” Sold Out

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