2:30 p.m.Press Conference
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village: An Expanded Vision for the Shaker Museum and Library
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village is the most historically significant of all Shaker villages. The Shaker Museum and Library will restore, rebuild, and re-use part of the site as its new museum, research, and teaching center. The press conference will present a history and future plans for the site and the Museum.
All members of the press and public are invited to attend.
Wednesday, January 23
2:30 p.m.
Intimate Tour of the Loan Exhibition
Visitors on this tour will have a rare opportunity to examine at close range pieces of classic Shaker. We will focus on key component design elements and construction features that epitomize and define what we have come to know as the “Shaker Style.”
Presenter: Winter Antiques Show exhibitor, Robert W. Wilkins of Suzanne Courcier • Robert W. Wilkins, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
Friday, January 25
2:30 p.m.
‘I Am Holy Wisdom ...’ Gift Drawings as Unique Expressions of Shaker Faith
Some of the most atypical Shaker objects are drawings produced during the height of the Shakers’ mid-19th century religious revival. Shaker mediums, or instruments, recorded visions and dreams that included words of encouragement, praise, and admonition. These works on paper are precious reminders of the powerful tension between the Shakers’ spiritual and temporal worlds.
Presenter: Sharon Duane Koomler, Director of the Museum, Shaker Museum and Library
All lectures are held in the Tiffany Room at the Park Avenue Armory, and are complimentary with show admission.