June 24-City Weekly: On a Roll: Saltgrass Printmakers demonstrate one heavy process of creation

"When I show up to talk to Saltgrass Printmakers’ Erik Brunvand about the steamroller-printing demonstration at the Utah Arts Festival, he is online ordering more aprons for the event. Printing can be a messy business. But when you are using a piece of construction equipment for your press, it adds an extra dimension to the splay of ink and woodblock image introduced to one other by a diesel engine. 'Since it’s just relief printing, with the raised surfaces conveying ink to the paper, it’s as easy to drive over it with a steamroller as run it through a printing press,' explains Brunvand."

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By Brian Staker, Salt Lake City Weekly, June 24, 2009