Come have a cup of mulled cider at twilight and join us in community for an exclusive listening engagement to celebrate the cassette release of last lullaby, the soundscape of CRADLED. 

Members-only tour of the collection.

Do you have a pile of socks that need darning, but lack motivation? A bunch of t-shirts you’ve been meaning to donate, but don’t want to add to the global textile waste crisis? Elise McMahon of LikeMindedObjects and Shaker Museum will facilitate The Fix-It Picnic, where the can-do community fix-it spirit is contagious. There will be plenty of time to work on the sewing, t-shirt weaving, mending, or crafting project of your choice. Open to all ages and skill levels.

Artists Frances McDormand and Suzanne Bocanegra have joined forces with Shaker Museum to present Cradled, a thought-provoking exhibition that explores the transcendent impact of the Shakers’ communal embrace from cradle to grave through objects, values, and inspired modern-day artistic expression.

Artists Frances McDormand and Suzanne Bocanegra have joined forces with Shaker Museum to present Cradled, a thought-provoking exhibition that explores the transcendent impact of the Shakers’ communal embrace from cradle to grave through objects, values, and inspired modern-day artistic expression.

Artists Frances McDormand and Suzanne Bocanegra have joined forces with Shaker Museum to present Cradled, a thought-provoking exhibition that explores the transcendent impact of the Shakers’ communal embrace from cradle to grave through objects, values, and inspired modern-day artistic expression.

Join Hilma’s Ghost for a magic circle inside the American Folk Art Museum, site of the current exhibition Anything But Simple: Spirit Drawings and the Shaker Vision. Participants will do drawing and divination exercises using automatism, tarot, and other magic techniques that take us across the threshold of the seen to the unseen realm. Drawing inspiration from the Shaker works and techniques on view as well as Spiritualists, Dadaists and Surrealists, we will learn about the rich artistic tradition of feminism and spirituality including our namesake, Hilma af Klint, as well as many artists like Emma Kunz, Leonara Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, and Ana Mendieta. The workshop will end with an ancestral closing.

Artists Frances McDormand and Suzanne Bocanegra have joined forces with Shaker Museum to present Cradled, a thought-provoking exhibition that explores the transcendent impact of the Shakers’ communal embrace from cradle to grave through objects, values, and inspired modern-day artistic expression. The new exhibition will open to the public on Sunday, September 15, with a reception from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM at the Kinderhook Knitting Mill in Kinderhook, NY.