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Salon 94 Design with The Hancock Shaker Village Museum in Pittsfield, MA announce Heaven Bound, Thomas Barger’s first museum solo presentation. Here, Barger offers an entirely new body of work inspired by and installed alongside original Shaker masterpieces. Barger’s animated sculptures and furniture objects derive from a similar ideology of craftsmanship to the Shakers and are rooted in a profoundly personal American heritage. This exhibition provides a context for Barger’s work that speaks to his upbringing as gay man raised within a religious farm community in Illinois.

The Shakers were …