Sarah McDermott was born in Washington, D.C. and is currently Associate Professor of Printmaking at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. 

email: kidneypress@gmail.com
Pronouns: they/she

You can read a process statement here.


Select Publications/Press:

You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography- The University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and the Environment (Said Owners, Said Lots Project) 

Lady Science Magazine: Plant Flagging and the Queer Ecology Hanky Project

Navigating Sarah McDermott’s “Channel and Flow”: Women’s Studio Workshop

Getting Lost with Sarah McDermott: Women’s Studio Workshop

Mid-America Print Council Journal Volume 27: “Revealed Terrain” (Channel and Flow featured)

Interview with the Jacksonville Cultural Council

Parenthesis 29- Journal of the Fine Press Book Association (”Domestic Incidents, Channel and Flow, reviewed by Inge Bruggeman”)

On “Revealed Terrain” at the Center for Book Arts

New York Times- “Literary Heirs” (Birkensnake)

Black Clock- “Birkensnake: The Mutant Left-Behind Cousin You Always Wanted”

Interview with George Mason’s Fenwick Gallery

Paperbag No. 3 (artwork featured)

UW- Madison on Birkensnake

Matchbook Volume 4, Small Fires Press (artwork featured)

The Huntington Herald-Dispatch: “Marshall Students Create Prints on a Massive Scale”

The Huntington Herald-Dispatch: “MU Printmakers Hosting Steamroller Art Project on Campus on Sunday”


Artist’s books may be purchased from:
Vamp and Tramp Booksellers
Abecedarian Gallery 


Work can be found in the following collections: 

Baylor University
Bennington College
Brown University- Hay Library
Bucknell University
The Center for Book Arts, New York City
Colorado College
Columbia University- Butler Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts
    Collection
Columbus College of Art and Design
Corcoran College of Art and Design/George Washington University
Duke University
Emory University
Florida State University
George Mason University- Fenwick Library Special Collections
Indiana University
The Library of Congress
Mills College- Center for the Book
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The New York Public Library
Ohio State University- Fine Arts Library
Oberlin College
Rhode Island School of Design- Fleet Library
Rochester Institute of Technology
Savannah College of Art and Design
Scripps College
The Smithsonian Institution- American Art and Portrait Gallery
    Library
Stanford University- Green Library Special Collections British and
    American Literature
Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
University of California Berkeley
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Florida- Smathers Library and Digital Book Arts
    Collection
University of Michigan
University of Pittsburgh
University of Utah
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin- Kohler Art Library
Vassar College
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wake Forest University
Watkins College of Art
Wesleyan University
Yale University- Haas Arts Library