BUILDING BY THE BOOK, 9/25

There is still time to submit a proposal for BUILDING BY THE BOOK: Book
Artists Respond to Architecture and Design. The deadline for proposals is
September 25, 2009. Visit the books in person or on-line. Summary of the
Call for Entries follows:

As part of Philagrafika 2010: the Graphic Unconscious, the Athenaeum of
Philadelphia, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Center for the Book,
is issuing a call for entries for book artists to respond to selected
works from the Athenaeum's legacy research collection of architecture and
design.

Entry & Submission Summary:

Athenaeum curators have chosen ten books from their collections that are
available to view both on site and online. Artists residing in the United
States are invited to submit proposals for a book that they will create in
response to one of the selected books. The proposed books may be editioned
or one-of-a-kind, artist books, book objects, altered books or zines. The
proposal must be for newly created work, directly responding to a specific
book from the Athenaeum collection.

Six of the proposals will be chosen, and these six artists will make their
proposed books, which will be exhibited in the Athenaeum gallery in March
and April during the Philagrafika 2010 festival. A generous grant from the
Beneficia Foundation underwrites this competition and exhibition and will
provide these six artists with a stipend of $500 to help offset the cost
of the book production. The artists books will be exhibited along with
their Athenaeum counterparts.

The Athenaeum books are available to view by appointment during regular
Athenaeum hours and online. Athenaeum staff are available in person and at
215-925-2688 to consult with artists about the books to which they are
responding.

Visit www.philaathenaeum.org/competition.html for project details and to
view books.

Deadline for proposals is September 25, 2009