Love Letters to San Francisco with Michael Wertz

A Workshop and Signing with Michael Wertz at The International Library of Youth Writing! Join us for a lovely afternoon with the author and illustrator Michael Wertz. Write your own love letter to a San Francisco landmark with the help on an award winning illustrator! Show your city some love for Valentines Day.

Books will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public. See you there!

Michael Wertz is the Chair of the Illustration Program at California College of the Arts. In addition to Illustration, he teaches with Critical Ethnic Studies, Printmaking, and MFA Writing.

As an illustrator and author, his client work covers the gamut, including The New Yorker; ESPN; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Storycorps; Google; Fort George Brewery; Bay Area Bookfest; Fillmore Auditorium; Bay Area Rapid Transit; Peaches Christ; Vote Vote Vote; Nike; Camelbak; Converse; Camper Van Beethoven; Pottery Barn; Levi Strauss; and Rickshaw Bagworks.

His work has received awards from Communication Arts, The Society of Illustrators (New York City), 3x3 Illustration, and American Illustration, (New York City.)

Illustrated books include Golden Gate Park, an A to Z Adventure, (2020 West Margin Press); ABC Oakland, (2017 HeyDay Books).

He lives in beautiful Oakland, California [on the unceded territories of the Ohlone people] with his husband Andy and their pit-mix Blue.

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