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SUMMARY:Bootmaker in Residence: Sarah Madeleine T. Guerin
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Madeleine T. Guerin\, also known as Saboteuse\, is an artist who builds Western boots by hand from leather and other raw materials using traditional tools. Her contemporary art practice centers around the architecture of 19th-century Massachusetts “ten footer” shoe shops like Lye-Tapley\, which were once a common sight on the North Shore. These ground-level\, neighborhood workshops previously connected everyday people with the process of shoemaking and shoe repair. Inside\, shoemakers — almost always men — collaborated with women upper-makers\, or “binders\,” who worked from their homes.  \nA sophisticated handcraft\, shoemaking\, and Western bootmaking in particular\, nearly died out when shoes began to be produced by machine in factories on an industrial scale. While 19th-century people could watch shoes being made in their communities\, the average person living today is disconnected from the global footwear industry. Those processes and materials significantly contribute to climate change\, and too many of the 65 million shoes produced every day end up in landfills. The fashion industry as a whole is also vulnerable to labor inequity\, particularly for women. \nGuerin’s focus on ten footers as workshop models led her to research on gender roles in shoemaking and gaps in women’s history as craftspeople. When she’s not in residence at PEM\, she works out of her own replica ten footer in Wakefield.  \nSarah Madeleine T. Guerin\, or Saboteuse\, analyzes the historical nexus of artisan work within legacies of gendered labor\, industrialization and hierarchies of fine art\, design and craft. Her work as a researcher and educator ties the architecture of the workplace to legacies of craft knowledge and systems that contemporary artists work within today. Guerin builds Western boots and crafts fine art objects that utilize bootmaking skills to manipulate the cowboy boot’s strong cultural iconography\, shifting the canon of this traditional form. The entire tradition\, history and knowledge she employs in making these pieces represent an active resistance to historical systems that would have withheld this knowledge from her due to her gender\, or exploited her underpaid labor. \nThe Shoe Shop will be open 11am-5pm Fridays and Saturdays from June 5-August 29.\nThe Shoe Shop will be closed on Saturday\, June 6\, and will be open on Sunday\, June 14.
URL:https://www.salem400.org/event/bootmaker-in-residence-sarah-madeleine-t-guerin/
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