Ghia Godfree won the fifth-annual Wonderland Award with her inventive mash-up of Alice in Wonderland and the popular loteria card game. There were a record 57 entries in this year’s competition, more than we received during the last two years combined.
Emily Yu won second prize for her series of small paintings based on pieces by Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Andy Warhol, and other modernist icons, and Kelly Combs won third prize for The Liddell Book of Letters, an illustrated, hand-made book that can only be read using a mirror.
The other winners were Leah Sargent, who won the inaugural White Rabbit Prize for her short film Curious: My Wonderland; Keith Henkel, who won the Dormouse Prize for his collection of dresses with animal characteristics; Kathryn Strong, who won a Special Recognition Award for a tiny book titled Of Deep-Fried Chicken Wings. . .; and Kassandra Zuanich, who received a Special Recognition Award for her unique Web-based logic-puzzle game based on the Alice in Wonderland universe.
An audience of students, faculty, and library supporters joined the judges and Linda and George Cassady for the fifth-anniversary Wonderland Award ceremony in Room 240 of Doheny Memorial Library.
Alicia en Loteria Land Makes for Frabjous Celebration
- Bill Dotson
- Apr 22, 2009