My Mother’s Legacy: a 1,000 line poem written on 1,000 wooden bowls
On View NOW Through JuLY 15
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Sponsored by the Cordelia Family Foundation
Artist Exhibition Statement
"My Mother's Legacy" is a 1,000-line poem wood-burned into the bottom of 1,000 wooden bowls. On each bowl is written a line from my memory that reflects a mannerism, advice, or a remark I attribute to my mother. The bowls are piled randomly onto tables, where the viewer must pick up each bowl to read it. The act of lifting each bowl reminds me of my mother, because she had the habit of turning things over to see where they were made.
When my mother died of breast cancer, she was 47 and I was 13. Over the years, I carried around so many memory fragments that I could not fit together to fully understand who my mother had been as a person. In 1995, I began to write all the things I could remember. Out of that list came these lines that are "My Mother's Legacy".
Artist Bio
Sarah Hutt is a mixed media sculptor whose work uses everyday objects to create an interactive content to engage the viewer focusing on memory, dreams and the reality they create. She is a graduate of the Boston Museum School and winner of a 5th year Fellowship (with additional studies at Boston University and Mass College of Art). As a working artist, she exhibits her work and serves as a visiting artist and lecturer to numerous museums, galleries and organizations throughout the country. She has received grants and awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation.
Hutt has 25 years of experience in public arts advocacy and works as a consultant to advocate creating economic opportunities for visual artists, coordinating temporary public art projects, and creating collaborations between individual artists and community organizations as well as sitting on numerous boards of directors and community advisory groups. Projects include the Boston Public Art Archive at Northeastern University Research Library for Social Change, National Parks Service Art on the Trail, Art in the Yard, and USS Constitution Museum. She is the former Director of Visual Arts for the City of Boston. Sarah has worked with the Friends of the Public Garden in Boston for over 13 years where she has been responsible for creating a long-term care program for the 44 contemporary and historic statues, monuments and fountains in the Boston Public Garden, Boston Common and Commonwealth Avenue Mall. Sarah has worked with the Friends of the Public Garden in Boston for over 13 years where she has been responsible for creating a long-term care program for the 44 contemporary and historic statues, monuments and fountains in the Boston Public Garden, Boston Common and Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
