MEET THE MAKERS
Becoming ‘The Girl Who Can Build Anything’ BY RACHAEL DUBINSKY PHOTO BY ADRIANNE MATHIOWETZ
S
omerville resident and local artist Sarah Miller had her “a-ha” moment about what she wanted to do with her life when she was taking architecture classes at California Polytechnic State University Pomona. Call it youthful naivety, but at the age of 20 she had a sense that what she was learning in her classes didn’t necessarily reflect an 26 Meet the Makers | scoutsomerville.com
architect’s career. She says she confirmed her suspicions while visiting the local architects association, where professionals told her that the first 10 years of a career in architecture would mean less designing and more drafting of plans. After a lunch with a few of the architects she met at the association, she discovered the
field of industrial design, which combines engineering and art to create product designs product. It felt like she found her calling. And now, at Artisan’s Asylum—a land of raw materials with every resource at her disposal and a community that encourages its makers to fail and keep trying—she has been “home” for five years. She says that at the makerspace, there
