Join San Francisco Center for the Book ONLINE on Sunday, September 27, 2020 for our 17th annual Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival!

This year San Francisco Center for the Book’s 17th Annual Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival will take place online! An annual favorite of the bookarts community, SFCB’s free-to-attend printmaking and book arts extravaganza will include virtual book arts activities, demonstrations, exhibitors, and a livestream of the steamroller print process.

We are going online with the event this year! Using our parking lot as the press bed and a big ol’ steamroller as the press, a small team will print Classic 3’ square prints and 9x12” personal prints throughout the event. Printing will take place in real time; online attendees can order a print and watch it get printed via livestream. Sales of both Classic and Personal prints are a fundraising activity benefiting San Francisco Center for the Book.

Roadworks “Classic Prints” Artists:

The featured Classic Prints artists for Roadworks 2020 are Rik Olson (Rik Olson Illustration) and Eric Rewitzer (3 Fish Studios).

Roadworks “Personal Prints” Artists:

This exciting program offers artists who register the opportunity to design and carve an official Roadworks Personal Prints (size: 9” x 12”) and have it printed on the day of the event by a real steam- powered steamroller! Personal Prints by participating artists are available for sale during Roadworks; sales of Personal Prints benefit SFCB.

Exhibitors, vendors, and organizations:

Each year, Roadworks features vendors, exhibitors, and organizations from the book and print community -- this year will be no different! We look forward to hosting a variety of book arts and printed related vendors from near and far.