Past Exhibitions

For this exhibition, the artist brings together two bodies of work that highlight the relationship between the barn interior and its physical thresholds: doors, windows and stairwells.

Featuring the Shaker Sisters’ ingenuity with and devotion to herb cultivation. Artist Maggie Pate exhibits a series of botanical prints of medicinal herbs on raw silk. Alyssa Sakina Mumtaz exhibits her Rizq series.

The Shaker legacy continues in this exhibition of Shaker-inspired works by women artists Julia Whitney Barnes, Kathy Greenwood, Kate Hamilton, Elana Herzog, Wendy Jensen, Becca Van K, Caitlin McBride, and Phoebe Rotter. The exhibit’s breadth of form, style, and function demonstrates the continuing legacy of Shaker Sisters. This exhibit closes November 24th. [...]

Exhibit highlights the efforts of several exceptional women’s efforts in creating the museum and celebrates their intrepid spirit.

Since the museum’s inception in 1961, much of its robust collection is a result of donations by women. The Generous Spirit highlights individual donors over the decades, and exhibits numerous objects from each.

This exhibit showcases a selection of gift drawings in the Hancock Shaker collection alongside drawings of contemporary artists Alyssa Sakina Mumtaz, Sue Muskat, and Julia Whitney Barnes.

Local and Land Made: Growing a New Textile Economy featured 19th Century Shaker wool-working tools from the Hancock Shaker Village collection and Laura Sansone's curated selection of contemporary textiles. Exhibition dates: September 19 - November 21, 2021. 

Weaving together the work of artists and performers Our Native Daughters, Brad Wells, Roomful of Teeth, and Allison Smith, Climbing the Holy Hill was conceived as a celebration of the Shaker pilgrimages to the peak of Shaker Mountain—what they sometimes called the “Holy Hill” or “Mount Sinai”. Exhibition dates: September 23 - November 28, 2021

Opening in May 2018, Hancock Shaker Village will exhibit its rare Shaker “gift” or “spirit” drawings for the first time in decades.  Mysterious, decorative, and ornate (the opposite of what we think of as Shaker design, which is experiencing strong interest currently), the drawings were not shared outside the Shaker community.

Featuring work by Henry Klimowicz, Abelardo Morell, and Marko Remec, this exhibition explores how the repurposing of objects or landscapes can change the way we view them.