{"id":4782,"date":"2013-03-11T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:28:07","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-sarah-mcdermott-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/book-artist-of-the-month-sarah-mcdermott-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Sarah McDermott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Memories can be tricky. When recalling moments from our childhood, we can so easily and without realizing it, elaborate on the reality. In\u00a0Dodge County Summers<\/em>, Sarah McDermott<\/a> constructs a narrative from the summers spent on her family’s farm in Wisconsin and now as an adult realizes their falsehoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dodge County Summers\u00a0<\/em>is bound as a quarter cloth binding on an intimate scale of 5\u00bc\u00a0x 5\u00bc” containing fold-out sections, which allow for movement in two directions. The interior pages were handmade using cotton rag, abaca, mystery pulp balls and hemp and letterpress printed on a Vandercook 4 with the use of linoleum reductions and photopolymer printed plates for the text and drawings.<\/p>\n

This artist book was created in 2009 in an edition of 30 and can be purchased through Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Memories can be tricky. When recalling moments from our childhood, we can so easily and without realizing it, elaborate on the reality. In\u00a0Dodge County Summers, Sarah McDermott constructs a narrative from the summers spent on her family’s farm in Wisconsin and now as an adult realizes their falsehoods.\u00a0 Dodge County Summers\u00a0is bound as a quarter […]<\/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":[573,572,796,503,753,97,751,797],"class_list":["post-4782","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-books","tag-book-arts","tag-dodge-country-summers","tag-handmade-paper","tag-kidney-press","tag-letterpress","tag-sarah-mcdermott","tag-vandercook-4"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1f8","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":4782,"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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