• Celebrate National Pollinators’ Week 2022

    Join us in June for the 2022  Pollinators' Week! Shaker Heritage Society (SHS) is collaborating with several partners to provide programs and information about pollinators. Beginning June 18th, enjoy our

  • Introduction to Needle Felted Painting

    Did you ever go to a fiber fest or farmers market and see unspun wool in gorgeous colors and wonder what you could do with them? Local artist Chris O'Connor will

  • Planting Utopia Exhibit & Reception

    Inspired by Shaker gift drawings, artist Julia Whitney Barnes photographed over 150 plants to create this unique in and outdoor exhibition. Beginning in the spring of 2021, Poughkeepsie-based artist Julia

  • Hands to Work Day

    We would greatly appreciate your assistance with outdoor and indoor tasks to spruce up our site! Masks are not required outdoors, but we ask all participants to adhere to social

  • Walking in the Wicks’ Footsteps

    In the fall of 1824, Job and Polly Wicks and their 10 children arrived at the Watervliet Shaker community. So began a 70-year association of the Wicks family with the

  • Hearth Basket Weaving Workshop

    Local weaver Sandy Salada will teach you how to create your own handsome Hearth Basket! The Historical use of a Hearth Basket was used to carry fire wood or kindling

  • Cyanotype Workshop with Julia Whitney Barnes

    Learn how to make your own piece of cyanotype with multidisciplinary artist Julia Whitney Barnes! Sometimes considered a printmaking technique, sometimes a photographic technique, artist/educator Julia Whitney Barnes approaches the

  • Walking in the Wicks’ Footsteps

    In the fall of 1824, Job and Polly Wicks and their 10 children arrived at the Watervliet Shaker community. So began a 70-year association of the Wicks family with the

  • Confetti Stage “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

    Confetti Stage's summer production of  William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream will be on the Shaker Heritage lawn! Bring your own chair and come for a night of magical thinking! Performances: On August 5,

  • Walking in the Wicks’ Footsteps

    In the fall of 1824, Job and Polly Wicks and their 10 children arrived at the Watervliet Shaker community and began a 70-year association of the Wicks family with the