Featured on the Hancock Shaker Village sschedule for summer 2012 is A Promising Venture, based on photographs cataloging Shaker furniture, architecture, and craft, by Noel Vicentini, made during the 1930s for the Federal Art Project of the WPA. Vicentini visited Watervliet and Mount Lebanon, NY, as well as Hancock, MA. The vast majority of his work at Shaker sites will be shown at Hancock Shaker Village in 2012 and 2013, in the Visitors Center. Hancock Shaker Village, 1826 Round Stone Barn, Pittsfield, MA
Hancock Shaker Village events and exhibitions
A Promising Venture – May 26, 2012 – October 28, 2012
Oval Box Basics – June 9, 2012 – June 10, 2012
Photographing the City of Peace – June 23, 2012
Shaker Shalom: A Conversation – June 26, 2012
Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen – July 13, 2012
Free Fun Friday! – July 20, 2012
Shaker Shalom Gala – August 12, 2012
Paul Green and his Neshoma Klezmer Ensemble Concert – August 12, 2012
15th Annual Country Fair – September 29, 2012 – September 30, 2012
Hancock Shaker Village contact info.
Mail: PO Box 927, Pittsfield, MA 01202
Street: 1843 W. Housatonic St., Pittsfield, MA 01201
