{"id":82020,"date":"2025-08-14T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/82020\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:14:13","slug":"claudia-gould-to-helm-the-shaker-museum-in-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/82020\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Gould to Helm the Shaker Museum in Upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter leaving the Jewish Museum in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/claudia-gould\/\" id=\"auto-tag_claudia-gould\" data-tag=\"claudia-gould\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claudia Gould<\/a> has joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/shaker-museum\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shaker-museum\" data-tag=\"shaker-museum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaker Museum<\/a> in Chatham, New York, as its next director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Shaker Museum houses one of to the world\u2019s most significant collection of Shaker material culture. It\u2019s in the process of constructing a new, $30 million flagship space to be designed by Selldorf Architects, whose recent projects include a renovation of New York\u2019s Frick Collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Shakers, whose name was derived from their tremors during ecstatic worship services, were a Christian sect that originated in England during the 18th century and spread to the United States. They were known for their communal living and celibacy practices, their belief in gender and racial equality, and their spare architecture, music, and furniture.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-10.51.58.png\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-10.51.58.png\" alt=\"A rendered image of a room with suited people and art.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn a phone interview with ARTnews, Gould said she was excited \u201cto build a museum from the ground up,\u201d a task she described as being \u201ca whole different set of challenges than restructuring an organization.\u201d In tackling this new challenge, Gould is seeking \u201cto move the needle without moving the mission,\u201d asking herself \u201chow to push things in a way that\u2019s really unexpected, but also spot-on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGould previously directed New York\u2019s Jewish Museum from 2011 to 2023. During that time, she oversaw a large-scale renovation, increased its endowment, and created a cross-disciplinary program. Prior to her tenure, she worked at the ICA Philadelphia and Artists Space in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m excited to be here, and also, it\u2019s a very unusual move for me to make,\u201d Gould explains of her career trajectory. \u201cIf people know me, they know that [this move to the Shaker Museum] makes total sense of my passion for design and architecture, and how I brought this into every institution I\u2019ve worked in. I\u2019ve always worked at the intersection of these fields, and that\u2019s where my passion lies. I hope to bring that sensibility to the Shaker Museum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After leaving the Jewish Museum in 2023, Claudia Gould has joined the Shaker Museum in Chatham, New York,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,57299,229,88,57300],"class_list":["post-82020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-claudia-gould","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-shaker-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}