The 12 Shaker design stamps feature photographs by Michael Freeman and the pane selvage features a black-and-white photograph by Samuel Kravitt of Brother Ricardo Belden (1868–1958) in his workshop at ...

The austere craftsmanship of this disappearing group is as striking as their ecstatic worship, on view at ICA Philadelphia.

Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing than pegs, ladder-back chairs and quilts. The Shakers, as they were otherwise known, were an English ...

PITTSFIELD — Hancock Shaker Village explores the continuing influence of Shaker design and aesthetic on contemporary artists with a series of four art installations. The installations by American ...

Just as the new movie The Testament of Ann Lee brings the Shakers back into the public eye, an exhibition at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art celebrates the movement's lasting ...

Simple, practical, and easily-adaptable design was a hallmark of the religious group known as the Shakers, as Richard Schlesinger tells us: At the Hancock Shaker Village in far western Massachusetts, ...

Eighteenth-century Shakers put contemporary minimalists to shame. Members of this religious sect based in upstate New York and Western Massachusetts were adamant that form follow function: a chair was ...