Just as the new movie The Testament of Ann Lee brings the Shakers back into the public eye, an exhibition at Philadelphia's ...

A show at ICA Philadelphia joins a surge of Shaker-inspired projects: films, dances, a museum’s expansion. Refracted through ...

The 12 Shaker design stamps feature photographs by Michael Freeman and the pane selvage features a black-and-white photograph by Samuel Kravitt of Brother Ricardo Belden (1868–1958) in his workshop at ...

The film's production designer weighs in on the religious movement's lasting impact on design.

Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing than pegs, ladder-back chairs and quilts. The Shakers, as they were otherwise known, were an English ...

Above: Items from the Kvadrat/Raf Simons Shaker System Collection. The Shakers, a Christian sect that took root in North America in the 18th century, promoted, among other things, communal living that ...

Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing than pegs, ladder-back chairs and quilts. The Shakers, as they were otherwise known, were an English ...

The Shakers, a Christian sect that took root in North America in the 18th century, promoted, among other things, communal living that fostered devotion to the spiritual rather than the material world.

Simple, practical, and easily-adaptable design was a hallmark of the religious group known as the Shakers, as Richard Schlesinger tells us: At the Hancock Shaker Village in far western Massachusetts, ...

Simple, practical, and easily-adaptable design was a hallmark of the religious group known as the Shakers, as Richard Schlesinger tells us.(This story was originally broadcast on May 31, 2015.) At the ...