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Mount Lebanon opens exhibition examining the Shakers, gender equality, and women’s suffrage
On Friday, June 16, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon celebrated the opening of the historic Shaker village and the exhibition Break Every Yoke: Shakers, gender equality, and women’s suffrage. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation, and private donations, the exhibition explores Shaker Founder Ann Lee’s original assertion that God was dual, both male and female, and the impact of that belief on the roles women played in the spiritual and secular activities of Shaker society. The exhibition draws on more than 75 artifacts from Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon’s collections.
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Sharon Duane Koomler is a Shaker scholar and traditional letterpress printer living in upstate New York. She has academic degrees in American Folklore from Indiana University and Western Kentucky University. Sharon has worked at Shaker Museums from Kentucky to New Hampshire as an educator, curator, consultant, and director. She has written and published on Shaker material culture and spirituality, and lectured widely on Shaker art, life, and belief. Sharon has a particular interest in the under-researched social aspects of Shaker life and ways in which Shakers practiced inclusion and intentionality.