Artist, craftsman, and architect, La Saboteuse is resurrecting a vernacular way of life in a Ten Footer shoe-shop, creating boots as wearable sculpture.  Each piece begins with knowledge of craft and tradition, is designed as a unique reflection of place, then ensuing chapters in this story bear traces of time that only slow, persistent, repeated human touch can leave. 

La Saboteuse is a French/American bootmaker, a Master knitter, and is fluent in English, French, and Italian.

education

Footwear Certification London College of Fashion              London, England 2007

Bachelor of Architecture Rhode Island School of Design    Providence, RI 1999

Bachelor of Fine Arts Rhode Island School of Design         Providence, RI 1999

European Honors Program RISD                                             Rome, Italy 1997

occupation

Mother 2003 - present

Saboteuse Bootmaker 2013 - present

Lynn Museum Presenter on Shoemaking & Ten Footers 2016 - present          

Free-lance architectural designer 2002 – 2013

Industrial model-maker 2000 - 2002

 

 

 

 

 

Boston Voyager Magazine
http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/meet-sarah-madeleine-t-guerin-saboteuse-wakefield-ma-12-miles-nor...

Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal

USA 2017 Volume 27, No. 5 Sep/Oct