Shaker Museum, which stewards the most comprehensive collection of Shaker material culture and archives, and Pamela Salisbury Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Hudson, New York, today announced the launch of the “Shaker Museum Benefit Box Project.” The year-long initiative engages contemporary visual artists exhibiting at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery to reimagine the iconic Shaker oval box.
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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.