PITTSFIELD â Hancock Shaker Village explores the continuing influence of Shaker design and aesthetic on contemporary artists with a series of four art installations.
James Turrell and Nicholas Mosse, Beer Sterns, 2018, black basalt. PHOTO PROVIDED BY LEE FATHERREE via HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE
The installations by American fashion designer Tory Burch, artist/designer Gary Graham, textile artist Laura Sansone, and sculptor Thomas Barger will run simultaneously with the previously announced opening of James Turrell & Nicholas Mosse: Lapsed Quaker Ware on May 31. Burch s Beauty Rests on Utility and Graham s Looking Back to Look Forward also open May 31. Barger s and Sansone s exhibits will open on June 25.
Hancock Shaker Village invites visitors to come meet its baby farm animals
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Hancock Shaker Village invites visitors to meet and greet its baby animals as part of its annual spring ritual for the 17th year.
The popular three-week event, “Baby Animals on the Shaker Farm,” runs through Sunday, May 9, and celebrates the opening of the Pittsfield village museum’s 2021 season. The living history museum on 750 acres in the Berkshires was home to the social and religious community known as Shakers whose celibate lifestyle, furniture and architecture gave them prominence.
A variety of animals born on the farm, which is the oldest working one in the Berkshires, can be observed in and around the Round Stone Barn. The animals include modern as well as heritage breeds popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.