OVERVIEW

Sarah Hutt regularly shares her public art expertise and experience with a wide range of audiences through university-level teaching, public art walking tours for adults and children, and speaking engagements.

She tailors her offerings depending on the audience and format, whether graduate-level students, undergraduates, the general public, or children.

TEACHING

Hutt has taught courses on topics such as temporary and permanent public art, the creative economy and women and the arts at institutions including Emerson College, Simmons University, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston University, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

PUBLIC ART TOURS

Boston holds a wealth of public art by locally and nationally recognized artists, from Make Way for Ducklings by Nancy Schoen to Mags Harries' bronze trash Asaraton in Haymarket and Faneuil Hall Market to Lloyd Lillie's sculpture of Red Auerbach at Faneuil Hall. Hutt opens up this world by taking people to view the art firsthand and discussing the role of these monuments, statues, and public art installations in the urban environment.

She has led numerous custom-designed public art walking tours on topics such as "Statues in the Public Garden", "Murals of the South End", "Old South Meeting House: Public Art and Architecture", the Berkeley Street Community Garden, and "Boston Bold, Brave and Bracing: Boston's ICA" for Here + There, Friends of the Public Garden, United South End Settlements, the Boston Society of Architects and the AIA Conference. Throughout these tours she engages participants with her stories about the artists and their subjects and discussion of materials, maintenance and the importance of setting up endowments to maintain works of art.

She has also led special tours tailored for children, such as her Downtown Crossing public art walk "Lions, Unicorns and Wild Horses" focused on animals in public art.