Sarah Guerin

Sarah Madeleine T. Guerin is a French-American bootmaker, artist, scholar and educator based in Massachusetts. Sarah founded the bootmaking atelier Saboteuse in 2015 and is a mentor in the Mass Cultural Council’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. With strong roots in Lynn, MA, a former shoemaking hub, Sarah ties historical research into the evolution of footwear production to analyze fashion systems, probing legacies of inequity in footwear making. This research informs her contemporary, craft-based practice in which she develops deliberate futures for handmade footwear. Sarah holds degrees in fine arts and architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, museum studies from Harvard Extension School, footwear from Cordwainers at London College of Fashion and lastmaking at Lastmaker House UK, and she apprenticed with master bootmaker Jim Covington of Colorado. She approaches education with a process- and material-based focus intimately connected to social and cultural contexts. She has three children.