Circus Book Release Party | Potrero Hill

Submitted by the Event Organizer

SFCB is pleased to announce the release of our newest Imprint Publications Small Plates edition, Sideshow, by artist Rigel Stuhmiller. Join SFCB for the release of this beautiful new edition on Thursday, July 14, from 6-8pm. Refreshments provided.

Sideshow is a collaborative bookmaking project of the San Francisco Center for the Book and artist Rigel Stuhmiller. The book follows the rise and fall of a circus. The format of the book, ten double- sided pages, uses two storytelling channels to mimic the duplicity of a performance. Bright circus posters on the front side of the page are the show presented to the audience. The back sides of the pages are the behind-the-scenes: newspaper clippings, notes, and various ephemera that tell the story of the lives of the people who create the performance.

Sideshow is part of the Imprint of SFCB’s Small Plates series in which selected artists and writers create compact letterpress-printed books issued in limited editions. Our most recent artists in this series include Michael Wertz, Emory Douglas, Ward Schumaker, Daniel Gonzalez, John Hersey and Allison Weiner.

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