Emily Gates of the TriCorner News says that the exhibition of Shaker furniture collected by Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Shear paired with Kelly’s artwork, “stylishly allows for the purity of Shaker construction and the bold, graphic nature of the Kelly prints to star.”
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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.