Discipline: Visual Art

Sarah Hutt

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995

Sarah Hutt is an American mixed media sculptor. Her work focuses on memory, dreams, and the ever-changing reality they create. Using everyday objects, pieces have an interactive content. She is a graduate of the Boston Museum School and winner of a 5th year Fellowship. As a long-time resident of Boston’s South End, she was a key player in establishing the first successful mixed-use artist live/work space utilizing a surplus city-owned building in 1990, and has consulted on other similar projects around the country. She serves as a panelist, visiting artist, and lecturer to numerous museums, galleries and organizations throughout the country, as well as sitting on numerous boards of directors and community advisory groups. Hutt has a longstanding background in the arts and works as a consultant advising developers on master plans for including public art in new developments and creating maintenance masterplans for private and public art collections. In her capacity as a consultant she advocates creating economic opportunities for visual artists, coordinating temporary public art projects, and creating collaborations between individual artists and community organizations. She is the former director of visual arts for the City of Boston.

Studios

Mixter

Sarah Hutt worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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