How do you turn a street into a printing press? You take a 7-ton construction steamroller to it, that's how! Six featured artists are creating large-scale prints right on — and with — Rhode Island Street. Now in its 11th year, the popular all-ages Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival returns with a daylong public printmaking and book arts showcase that includes 40 arts and crafts vendors, music and entertainment, print and bookmaking demos, and a free hands-on block printing zone. A small group of community members are also creating Roadworks Community Linocut Prints, which will be for sale along with the extremely limited edition large-scale prints. All sales benefit the San Francisco Center for the Book, which organizes the festival and will be open to display its current exhibit (its printing headquarters doubles as an impressive gallery): Water Paper Stone: A Walk-Thru Book authored by Judy O'Shea. Spectacle, family fun, public art installation, neighborhood celebration — Roadworks is all of that and more. Prints by the six featured artists can be reserved in advance; check the website for more information.
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