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Aug 6, 2020 · Organized by Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA, Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them features rare Shaker “gift” or “spirit” drawings, all created between 1843–57. Colorful, decorative, and complex, these drawings are unique to the Shakers and to American religious culture as a whole.
Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them, August 6, 2020 through January 10, 2021. Organized by Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA, Anything but Simple features rare Shaker “gift” or “spirit” drawings created by Shaker women in the mid-1800s, a period known as the Era of Manifestations.
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Jun 6, 2022 - As a part of its 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA initiative, The New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) in Connecticut is now presenting Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them, through January 10, 2021. Organized by Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA, Anything but Simple features rare Shaker “gift ...
May 2, 2024 · Influenced by Shaker aesthetic, 18 unique and prominent women artists are featured in installations throughout Hancock Shaker Village. These women artists have contemporary visions of Shaker ideals through gift drawings, gardens, weaving, textiles, sculpture, and utilitarian design.
May 11, 2018 · What: "Anything But Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them" When: May 12 through Sept. 3. Daily 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through June 29; until 5 p.m. through Nov. 12. Where: Hancock Shaker Village, 1843 West Housatonic St., Pittsfield. Tickets: Included in admission; Free to members. Information: HancockShakerVillage.org
Feb 7, 2018 · The village also includes Shaker craft demonstrations, historic breeds of livestock, and its restored 19th-century water system. The Center for Shaker Studies, opened in 2000, offers two exhibition galleries to the public, one dedicated to Shaker gift drawings.
“The Hancock Shaker Village collection, begun in 1960, has grown through purchase, gift, and bequest to become the largest documented and representative collection of Shaker artifacts available to the public at an original restored Shaker site” with over 22,000 objects including furniture, tools and equipment, household objects, art ...
