Sarah Madeleine T. GUERIN is a female maker of cowboy boots who analyzes the historical tangle that locates artisan work within legacies of gendered labor, industrialization, material production, and hierarchies of fine art, design, and craft. She uses multiple strategies to provoke awareness of how footwear production profoundly and negatively affects individuals, targeted groups, climate, and our planet. She is an architecture and museum studies graduate, a mother, an artist, a researcher, and an educator. In public settings, she builds leather boots for exhibition that manipulate the strong cultural associations of its symbolism, and reconnects an uncurated public to intersections of labor, material considerations, and the sustainability of our future footwear. Her work has garnered a range of recognitions that, like her boots, allow GUERIN to bridge institutional categories, as well as socioeconomic and sociocultural divides, as a public artist.
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