Booker’s Dozen 2011 is the ninth edition of the show, which was founded in 1994 by late Boise State English professor Tom Trusky to “reward and encourage bookmaking, to promote Idaho bookmakers and to inspire Idahoans to make their own books.” The 2011 pool included 109 entries, representing national and international artists.
“Perhaps due to the fact that the show has been on a transitional hiatus since 2008, or perhaps because of the resurgence of interest in the book as an object and in unique books as a counterbalance to digital artifacts, Booker’s Dozen 2011 elicited an astonishing response,” said art professor and center director Stephanie Bacon.
Jurors for the exhibition were Melody Sky Eisler, artist and librarian; Jim Irons, poet and English professor at the College of Southern Idaho; Jon Sadler, photographer, book artist and photography professor at Boise State; Amanda Hamilton, professor of drawing and painting and director of the Friesen Galleries at Northwest Nazarene University; and Leila Ramella, art director for Boise Weekly.
Their selections include:
Aaron Nelson, “The Short Life”
Sarah Lenz, “Brown Bag Week”
Brooke Burton, “Hacked Vol. 3”
Mike Scheef, “EMZ Book One”
Yael David-Cohen, “Ageing I”
Page Moran, “Dead Man’s Recipes”
Will Spearman, “The Document: A Brief History”
Jill Fitterer, “Orso Corpo, Terra/This is Exactly What Happened … (etc.)”
Mariana Gutierrez, “Book”
Marilyn Cosho, “The Big Book of Asperger Syndrome”
William D. Lewis, “Look Out!”
Matt Bodett & Terra Feast, “Between the Edges of the Space”
Ajk Piercc + Tee Kho!, “THROUGH Non-Human”
Margarita Benitez, “Untitled”
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