“Beetle Boots,” 2021, leather, wood, metal, wax, nylon thread, rubber, 12 x 12 x 12 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Teaching Artist Cohort
2025
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 was a mentor in the Mass Cultural Council’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. With strong roots in Lynn, Massachusetts, 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 through bespoke bootwork and artmaking. Sarah holds degrees in fine arts and architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), museum studies from Harvard Extension School, and footwear from Cordwainers at London College of Fashion. She apprenticed with master bootmaker Jim Covington of Colorado. She teaches shoemaking and apparel design studio at RISD and approaches education with a process- and material-based focus intimately connected to social and cultural contexts. She has three children.
Selected works
“Ivy Boots,” 2019, leather, wood, metal, rubber, silk, linen, 14 x 12 x 12 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Beetle Boots,” 2021, leather, wood, metal, wax, nylon thread, rubber, 12 x 12 x 12 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Flags of our Foremothers,” 2022, ostrich Leather, repurposed leather skirt, leather, wood, metal, rubber, silk, Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea U.S. coins, 14 x 14 x 15 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Lean,” 2020, aluminum, leather, hydrocal, wood, wool, nylon thread, rubber, 14 x 14 x 14 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Crump,” 2023, leather, wood, metal, wax, nylon thread, rubber, cast-iron, 16 x 16 x 24 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Chez Pras,” 2019, X-Acto blades, leather, rubber, wood, metal, wax, linen, 15 x 15 x 15 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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