Sarah Hart

Sarah Hart (née Stewart, February 10, 1880 – July 3, 1981) was a Canadian artist and educator.

Life and career Sarah Alice Hart was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, on February 10, 1880. She studied at the Women's Art School, the Art Students League and The Cooper Union in New York City. An early student of John Hammond, Hart joined the teaching staff of the Applied Arts program at Mount Allison University in 1907, where she taught leather tooling until 1913. as a part of an extension initiative by Mount Allison University. She taught these extension courses in local communities including Amherst, NS, where high school student Alex Colville attended her classes.

During WWII she taught handcrafts including weaving, leather tooling and silverwork to Royal Canadian Air Force members in five wards of a hospital in Moncton, NB.

Hart died on July 3, 1981, at the Drew Nursing Home in Sackville, at the age of 101.

Collections

Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University