Thursday, September 27, 2001, 8:00 - 9:00 PM

"The Shaker Aesthetic"

Robert P. Emlen
Curator of Brown University
Senior Lecturer, Department of American Civilization , Brown University

Part of the Shaker ideal was to embody religious convictions in their furniture, artifacts, and architecture .  Mr. Emlen recently taught a course on this topic at RISD.  He is the author of Shaker Village Views: Illustrated Maps and Landscape Drawings by Shaker Artists of the Nineteenth Century  (University Press of New England) and has published his research on the material life of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America in the leading journals of American material culture.