As I Progress is a collaboration between visual artist Mara Baldwin and composer/percussionist Sarah Hennies that combines drawings, sculptures, and sound that will be installed/performed at the Shaker Heritage Society in Albany, NY.

Baldwin and Hennies’ work is inspired by the traces left behind of the once thriving Shaker society and uses their objects, architecture, and music as source material for making a new kind of interdisciplinary work that evokes a feeling of ghosts and loneliness in the 1848 Meetinghouse.

This event features an exhibition of Baldwin’s visual art in combination with a one-hour piece of music by Hennies and performed by Hennies, guitarist Matt Sargent (Bard College), and Australian cellist Judith Hamann.

This is Baldwin and Hennies’ second collaboration of Shaker-themed work following the 2020 performance of Come ‘Round Right at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, a 45-minute piece for four fiddle players accompanied by four Shaker chair sculptures and slowly shifting light.