SF’s 20th Annual “Roadworks” Steamroller Printing Festival (2023)

San Francisco Center for the Book

This year, San Francisco Center for the Book celebrates twenty years of the Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival by hosting a family-friendly, daylong block party featuring public printmaking, bookmaking, and hands-on art activities.

As an annual fundraiser, the Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival celebrates printmaking and the art of the book in a spectacular way: printing 3’ by 3’ carved linoleum blocks using a 7-ton 1924 Buffalo Springfield steamroller. Each year, a featured group of artists and printmakers design and carve printing plates from linoleum; the resulting plates are printed in a limited edition during the event. This year, SFCB will offer the artwork of over 45 artists, with Classic Prints by Nora Aoyagi, Hannah Cousins, Daniel González of Print González, Rik Olson, and Eric Rewitzer of 3 Fish Studios. Prints are only available during the event and raise funds to support SFCB workshops, exhibitions, and free public programming. A full list of Personal Print artists can be found here.

Tune in to Instagram Live at 11am PT on 9/24 to watch the first steamrolled print of the day!

VENDORS, ART ACTIVITIES, OPEN HOUSE

This year’s Roadworks Festival highlights free, hands-on printmaking and book arts activities, demonstrations, vendors, and an open house at San Francisco Center for the Book. Attendees can choose from various activities to participate in such as poster printing, making a mini-notebook, or learning about paper decoration. Retail vendors will be selling their wares ranging from stationery and handmade notebooks to fine art prints and artist books. A pop-up exhibition featuring printmaking work from George Washington High School AP art students will be on display, as well as SFCB’s current exhibition Datz Press: Global Voices in Contemporary Photobooks.

 

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Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.