San Francisco Center for the Book

Small Plates Upcoming Release:

Dog Dreams
Book Illustration and design by Michael Wertz
Binding design by Carolee Wheeler

Release date: Thursday July 29, 2010, 6-9 PM
At the San Francisco Center for the Book AUSTIN/BURCH GALLERY

The San Francisco Center for the Book is pleased to announce the release of its newest Imprint Publications artist book, Michael Wertz’s Dog Dreams. Attendees (and their well-behaved, leashed dogs!) are invited to view and purchase the new work at the celebration of this exciting new edition.
Dog Dreams, written, illustrated, and letterpress printed by Michael Wertz, is a children’s board book that imaginatively reveals the hopes, wishes, and ambitions of over a dozen dozing canines through playful imagery and rhyming text. The artist will be in attendance to discuss his work and sign purchased copies.

The featured artist, Michael Wertz, is a Bay Area illustrator and printmaker whose clients include Camelbak, Camper Van Beethoven, and the de Young Museum. His work has been recognized by Communication Arts and American Illustration. His "Dog Blog," featuring illustrations of 100 dogs in 100 days, was featured in Bark magazine. Visit: www.wertzateria.com.

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