(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Hancock Shaker Village received a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant for $6,000, the maximum award, to have its 25 historic Shaker Gift Drawings assessed by a paper specialist at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center. The paper medium of these visionary images is particularly fragile. The museum seeks a conservator’s…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire-sourced ingredients, enduring farm recipes, and Shaker music and cultural traditions form the heart of Hancock Shaker Village’s Shaker Suppers. These community meals – which will take place on Friday, October 26, 2012, at 4pm and Saturday, November 24, 2012, at 4pm, in the Village’s 1830 Brick Dwelling — feature classic dishes…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Hancock Shaker Village’s 15th annual Country Fair – replete with locavore food, handcrafts for sale, best in show awards, bluegrass music, and agricultural-derived activities for the whole family – takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 29 and 30, 2012, from 10am to 5pm. The fair features a Kids Tent, wagon and pony…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Four Berkshire artists spent a year studying Shaker history and culture and painting scenes while onsite at Hancock Shaker Village. The results can be seen in SEASONS at Hancock Shaker Village: a Painting Exhibition, featuring works by Marguerite Bride, Mike Cohen, Ivor Parry, and Scott Taylor, which will open in the Poultry…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Shaker Shalom: A Gala Celebration and Concert, a joint fundraising event intended to explore the shared customs from the Shaker tradition and from Judaism, with proceeds equally benefiting Hancock Shaker Village and Congregation Knesset Israel, will take place on Sunday, August 12, 2012, at 5:30 pm at Hancock Shaker Village. It will…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Hancock Shaker Village will unveil Shalom: Weaving Threads of Peace mixed-media assemblages by Wendy Rabinowitz in the Poultry House Gallery at an opening reception on Saturday, August 4, 2012, from 5pm to 7pm. The exhibition will run through Sunday, August 26. Rabinowitz will also give a gallery talk as part of the…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – With the help of a $1,550 grant from the Green Pastures Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Hancock Shaker Village (HSV) has improved the cold storage capacity of the root cellars built by the Shakers in the 1910 barn complex for use by its CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm program.…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Hancock Shaker Village will open a major new exhibition titled “A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA” on May 26, 2012. The Village invites members of the community to sponsor frames for the exhibition, which will enable the exhibition to travel after the autumn of 2013. Sponsorships are $250 per frame.…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Hancock Shaker Village Board of Trustees announced today that it has retained the National Executive Service Corps (NESC) of New York City to conduct a search for a permanent executive director for the museum. “We chose the NESC for the depth of its experience and for its understanding of the special…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – In keeping with the Shakers’ history of selling their wares downtown, Hancock Shaker Village will present its first ever holiday pop-up shop in downtown Pittsfield in the private dining room at Spice Dragon (297 North Street) on Saturday, December 3, and Sunday, December 4, 2011, noon to 7 pm, as well as…
