* Jean Burks "The Shakers: Models for Modernism"

Jean Burks “The Shakers: Models for Modernism”
Sunday, May 4, 1-2PM, Free with admission
Jean M. Burks, Chief Curator of the Shelburne Museum will give this lecture about the Shakers and their guiding principles of order, cleanliness, functionality and honesty and how this belief system resonates with the precepts of contemporary design that originated in the 1930s to define modernism.