{"id":4704,"date":"2013-03-04T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:28:32","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-sarah-mcdermott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/book-artist-of-the-month-sarah-mcdermott\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Sarah McDermott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sarah McDermott<\/a> works in collaboration with friends Joanna Ruocco and Brian Conn to design and screenprint covers for their experimental fiction journal Birkensnake<\/a><\/em>. Each issue is “irregularly published and imperfectly bound” in editions of about 300.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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left: Issue no. 2 | right: Issue no. 3<\/p><\/div>\n

Birkensnake 2<\/em><\/a> has a 3-color screenprint design on flocked paper with the center scorched with a blowtorch and bound in a long stitch structure. Birkensnake 3<\/em><\/a> has a 3-color design screenprinted on recycled chipboard boxes and bound with a wraparound cover.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, all of the print issues are sold out, but Birkensnake<\/em> can be read digitally through their website. The next issue is set to publish this summer, edited by seven pairs of strangers, that is until they signed on to complete Birkensnake 6<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah McDermott works in collaboration with friends Joanna Ruocco and Brian Conn to design and screenprint covers for their experimental fiction journal Birkensnake. Each issue is “irregularly published and imperfectly bound” in editions of about 300.\u00a0 Birkensnake 2 has a 3-color screenprint design on flocked paper with the center scorched with a blowtorch and bound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[677,68,681],"tags":[680,771,572,773,772,751],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-artist-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-artist-book-of-the-week","tag-artist-book","tag-birkensnake","tag-book-arts","tag-brian-conn","tag-joanna-ruocco","tag-sarah-mcdermott"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1dS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4898,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/book-artist-of-the-month-sarah-mcdermott-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":4704,"position":0},"title":"Book Artist of the Month: Sarah McDermott","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"March 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2010, Sarah McDermott completed Compendium of Domestic Incidents as her thesis from the University of Alabama. 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