Shaker Study Group
The Shaker Study Group brings together scholars, collectors, and enthusiasts in a shared commitment to the study of Shaker life and history. Encouraging new research, vibrant conversation, and hands-on engagement with material culture, we aim to support curiosity, interdisciplinary perspectives, and the continued evolution of Shaker scholarship in the 21st century.
Join us!
News & Updates
Exhibition | Shaker Museum’s Shaker Outpost: Baskets & Buckets by Paula Greif
For Shaker Museum’s next iteration of Shaker Outpost, a collaboration between the museum and artist Maira Kalman, we have Baskets & Buckets, a pop-up exhibition featuring pieces by ceramicist Paula Greif inspired by baskets and buckets from the museum collection. On view in Chatham, NY, through September 20.
News | archaeology brings a vanished Shaker Community back into view
Dr. Douglas Winiarski, with a team of University of Richmond students,
professors, and local volunteers, conducted a three-day archaeological survey of the Tyringham Shaker Cemetery. They verified historical records using ground-penetrating radar, building a GIS map of one of the last surviving pieces of the former Shaker settlement.
New Publication | The Harvard Shakers and their Cultural Landscape by Ned Quist
In the small New England town of Harvard, MA, there grew a small but significant Shaker society that thrived between 1781 and 1918. Planted by Mother Ann Lee herself, this communal society established four farms in the northeastern part of Harvard, Ayer, and Littleton. Their membership grew to as many as 180 Believers in over 80 buildings on more than 3,000 acres.