Artist and Bootmaker, I am resurrecting a vernacular practice in a Ten Footer boot-shop where I create bespoke custom boots. Each boot design is unique and deliberate, raised up from raw materials with a thorough knowledge of craft and tradition yet with the approach of architectural design theories in collaboration with the intended wearer. I also make art using skills from the craft of bootmaking. Each work of art comes to be when inspiration demands it.
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 Fine Arts Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 199
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
accomplishments
Art at a Distance Grant Cicada Boston 2020
The Knitting Guild Assn. 1st Place in Footwear Design 2018
Footwear Symposium 1st Place in Mens Footwear 2018
World
Leather Debut 2nd Place in Cowboy Boots 2018
Awesome
Foundation Grant “Ten Footer” Zoning Project 2017
World
Leather Debut 2nd Place in Boots 2017
The
Knitting Guild Assn. Master Knitter Certification 2017
http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/meet-sarah-madeleine-t-guerin-saboteuse-wakefield-ma-12-miles-nor...
https://www.itemlive.com/2019/08/02/free-friday-fun-for-everyone-at-lynn-museum/