Featured WAMC Coverage of Break Every Yoke Shakers, Gender Equality, And Women Suffrage At Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon
WAMC Coverage of Break Every Yoke Shakers, Gender Equality, And Women Suffrage At Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon
In 1917, New York State was one of the first to grant women the right to vote. With the support of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation, and private donations, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon is celebrating that important anniversary with its newest exhibition, Break Every Yoke: Shakers, gender equality, and women’s suffrage. The exhibition is on view in the historic 1829 Brethren’s Workshop via guided tour through October 9.
The exhibition draws on more than 75 artifacts from Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon’s collections and WAMC visited recently to discuss the exhibition with Shaker Museum Executive Director Lacy Schutz.
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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.