In 2024, the Shaker Museum presented “CRADLED,” an experiential pop-up conceived and curated by artist Suzanne Bocanegra and actor/producer Frances McDormand at the Kinderhook Knitting Mill, New York. The exhibition highlighted the cradle, a fixture of Shaker households and an enduring emblem of life’s cycles. Historic examples—on loan from communities and collections from New England to Kentucky—were shown alongside a newly built reproduction of an adult-size cradle, in which elders, including the artist Joan Jonas, were gently rocked during the installation. The experience evoked the ethos of Shaker life: a radically simple devotion to respect and care, expressed through handmade objects, the rhythm of song and the discipline of daily labor.