The Alice Awards 2018 Short List Announced
Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, is pleased to announce the Short List for the 2018 Alice Award. This year, the sixth year of the Alice, $25,000 will be given for the Alice Award and $5,000 to each of the shortlisted books.
Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay
Radius Books
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“O’er the Wide and Tractless Sea:” Original Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin
Yale University Press
London, United Kingdom; New Haven, Connecticut
Furthermore received over 100 submissions for the 2018 Alice, including books that have received funding from Furthermore and are automatically considered for the Award. The Alice 2018 shortlisted books are geographically diverse and all three have been recognized for focusing attention on subjects that are culturally significant in their various fields and not considered of broad general interest by mainstream publishers. The books meet the criteria of the Alice as being “well-made illustrated books, that afford a special sense of intimacy.”
In addition to taking us inside Guantanámo Bay and raising questions for the reader to ponder through photographs and text, the design of Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America has an exposed binding and individual sheets that are not stitched into the binding. The book, published by Radius Books a non-profit publisher located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, accompanied an exhibition that opened at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York City and was then exhibited at the Fotofest Biennial, Houston, Texas and the Philadelphia Photo Art Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The subject of American whaling is outlined with text, drawings, paintings, journal pages, posters, and other ephemera in a beautifully designed book written by Michael P. Dyer and entitled: “O’er the Wide and Tractless Sea:” Original Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt. The book was published by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, published by Yale University Press in New Haven, Connecticut and London, United Kingdom, positions Latin America as a source of artistic and scientific study and connects this history with what was happening in Europe during the same time period. Visual Voyages was published in collaboration with the Huntington Library, San Marino, California to accompany the exhibition with the same title.
ALICE JURY:
R.O. Blechman, Illustrator
Paula Cooper, Director, Paula Cooper Gallery
David Godine, Publisher
Sharon Helgason Gallagher, President & Publisher, Artbook/D.A.P.
Ian Wardropper, Director, the Frick Collection
Chair: Jock Reynolds, Former Director, Yale University Art Gallery
THE ALICE AWARD
The $25,000 Alice award, inaugurated in 2013 and administered by Furthermore grants in publishing, is given to a book that represents excellence in all aspects of the work—from idea to design to quality of production. This is the sixth Alice Award and $160,000 will have been contributed to institutions in support of illustrated publications when the Alice is presented in October. The book receiving the Alice will be announced on the Furthermore website (furthermore.org) on Monday, 8 October at 12:00 noon.
Every book receiving a grant from Furthermore is eligible for the Alice. Books not receiving funding from Furthermore may be submitted for consideration for the Alice if they are a 501(c)3 organization and have acted as a partner in the book’s production. The submission process opens on 1 January and closes on 1 April. Books published in the calendar year prior and up to the submission deadline will be considered.
The Alice Award will be presented on Monday, 29 October 2018 at the Strand Book Store.
ALICE M. KAPLAN:
The Alice honors Alice M. Kaplan, who was the co-founder of the J. M. Kaplan Fund. Mrs. Kaplan energetically encouraged the Kaplan Fund to support music, dance, libraries, and the visual arts. Joan K. Davidson, Ms. Kaplan's daughter, who is the founder and president of Furthermore and president emeritus of the Kaplan Fund, said, "My mother loved and collected the handsome illustrated book as itself a work of art, and since that kind of book depends upon the efforts of many creators—writer, designer, editor, and publisher—it is a commitment to that joint effort that the Alice will acknowledge and celebrate.”
Furthermore, founded in 1995, is a unique form of philanthropic support for nonfiction publishing that has given grants to nearly 1,200 publication projects—for writing, research, illustrations, editing, indexing, printing and binding, and more—totaling over $5 million. In establishing the Alice, Furthermore celebrates the program’s history of honoring outstanding book publishing and furthering its goal to provide significant support for the continuing creation of timeless and beautiful books. Furthermore is a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund which was founded in 1945 by Jacob M. Kaplan.
