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Exhibit with wooden cradles, a tall chair, and woven baskets. A large sign titled
A photograph of the CRADLED exhibition featuring adult-size and child-size cradles, shaker chairs, and shaker hangers
A museum exhibit featuring cradle displays, wooden chairs, and a patterned quilt. A wall sign titled
A decorative border frames the word
Room with framed architectural drawings on the wall, a table with a bowl of apples, and decorative items on pedestals.
Exhibit with wooden cradles, a tall chair, and woven baskets. A large sign titled A photograph of the CRADLED exhibition featuring adult-size and child-size cradles, shaker chairs, and shaker hangers A museum exhibit featuring cradle displays, wooden chairs, and a patterned quilt. A wall sign titled A decorative border frames the word Room with framed architectural drawings on the wall, a table with a bowl of apples, and decorative items on pedestals.

CRADLED

Exhibition open from Sunday, September 15 – Sunday, December 22

Kinderhook Knitting Mill
8 Hudson St., Kinderhook, NY 12016

Fridays and Saturdays 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sundays 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

No tickets or advance reservations are required.

Join us for the opening on Sunday, September 15, from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.

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.

Read the press release.

Exhibition photos: Matt Borkowski/BFA22

Sharon Koomler

Collections Manager

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.