Potrero Hill's street fair will take place Saturday, September 20, 2008, 12 noon to 5 pm, on De Haro Street between 16th and 17th streets.

Local artists and members of the community convene at this annual free street fair to create unique large-scale linoleum block carvings printed with a three-ton steamroller.

Roadworks: Steamroller Prints will bring together 6 local artists, Patricia Curtan, Emory Douglas, Jason Jagel, Rik Olson, Favianna Rodriguez, and San Quentin State Prison students of Katya McCulloch with Art Hazelwood, will create original linocut prints to be pressed by the steamroller. You can find out more about the artists and see some of their work here.

In addition to steamroller printmaking, there will be free children's activities, music and dozens of book arts vendors selling their wares. At the Roadworks: Steamroller Prints street fair you can buy a "little lino" steamroller print; chose from an array of handmade books, gifts and prints; get a bite to eat; take a tour of the SFCB gallery and pull your very own letterpress print.

What people are saying about Roadworks:

I'm tempted to say something like, 'Come out and see people doing it in the road.' But that would probably border on trite, if not downright suggestive.
- Paul Madonna, Artist and Author of All Over Coffee

A steamroller: it's unreal! It's fascinating to see the different steps to this process, which is very unconventional for art.
- David, volunteer at the San Francisco Center for the Book.

Doing art on the street - it's great! I love that I saw it being rolled, right here on the streets of San Francisco. Literally produced on the street - conceived in the artist's mind, then fulfilled on the street!
- Donna, Roadworks attendee

A one-minute video of last year's Roadworks event is featured on the terrific design website 49Sparks.com. See it here.

For further information, please contact:
Colleen Stockmann
Press Contact
San Francisco Center for the Book
phone: 415 565 0545, email: sfcbroadworks@gmail.com

All photos by Karen Kunze unless otherwise noted.

2007 Roadwork's artist Brandon Mise inks up his 3x3 block of linoleum, I Smell Something Fruity	SFCB volunteers Jamye Jamison, Randi Hansen and Eric Sederholm carefully lay paper over William Wiley's linoleum block at last year's Roadworks	Next, heavy blankets are put on top of the block and the paper to act as a barrier between the prints and the steamroller
Steamroller driver extrordinaire Colleen Stockmann carefully backs up over the print.	We run over the prints several times to ensure even distribution.	Removing the blankets in anticpation of the big reveal.
The print gets carefully pulled off of the linoleum block	Jamye and Randi hold the print up for the crowd to see

Little Lino's give everyone in the community an opportunity to make a steamroller print! We print them 9-up throughout the day with one copy for the artist to keep and one to be sold to benefit SFCB! (photo by Sharon Wickham)

All day long you can visit our Little Lino's booth and catch prints coming right off of the street. If you would like to be a Little Lino's artist this year please email us.

Every year we invite the best book artists, printers, designers and crafts people from our community to sell their designs at Roadworks. If you are interested in renting a table this year please email us.

One of our most popular tables all day are our free kids' activities! Kids of all ages can learn bookmaking and printmaking and take their beautiful creations home with them.