Susan Henshaw Jones
On Saturday, May 13, the Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon board of directors elected four new members to its ranks: Susan Henshaw Jones, Martha McMaster, Toby Rose, and John Schobel.
Jones retired in 2015 from the Museum of the City of New York, where she’d been the Ronay Menschel Director since 2003. During that time she stabilized the museum’s finances, increased annual visitorship from less than 100,000 to nearly a quarter of a million, updated the programming, and led a 10-year, $97 million renovation and modernization of the museum building.
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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.