As I Progress

The Shaker Heritage Society (SHS) is located on the site of America’s first Shaker settlement which was founded in 1776 by Mother Ann Lee and a small group of followers.  The complex is a small oasis located within walking distance from Albany Airport’s main entrance and the Ann Lee Pond Nature Preserve.  Visitors enjoy a mix of historic buildings and natural landscape features, the Shaker cemetery, and apple orchard.    The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday from March through late December.  The grounds are open to the public from dawn to dusk throughout the year.We offer a wide variety of tours, workshops, and programs for youth and adults.  The 1848 Meeting House and 1915 Barn are frequently used by community organizations for meetings and special events.For additional information about the Shaker Heritage Society, please visit www.shakerheritagesociety.org , email director@shakerheritage.org or call 518-456-7890.

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As I Progress combines drawings, sculpture, and sound in a one-hour musical performance in the 1848 Shaker Meeting House.

As I Progress is a collaboration between visual artist Mara Baldwin and composer/percussionist Sarah Hennies that combines drawings, sculptures, and sound that will be installed/performed at the Shaker Heritage Society in Albany, NY. Baldwin and Hennies’ work is inspired by the traces left behind of the once thriving Shaker society and uses their objects, architecture, and music as source material for making a new kind of interdisciplinary work that evokes a feeling of ghosts and loneliness in the 1848 Meetinghouse. This event features an exhibition of Baldwin’s visual art in combination with a one-hour piece of music by Hennies and performed by Hennies, guitarist Matt Sargent (Bard College), and Australian cellist Judith Hamann. This is Baldwin and Hennies’ second collaboration of Shaker-themed work following the 2020 performance of Come ‘Round Right at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, a 45-minute piece for four fiddle players accompanied by four Shaker chair sculptures and slowly shifting light.

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