Credits: Ulrich Museum of Art
Film by Ed Robbins

In this layered visual film, archival images and Lesley Dill's artworks blend to expand on a far ranging conversation about the Shakers and Mother Ann Lee, on the American Wilderness as a place of deviltry but also salvation to early settlers, on ecstatic and visionary religious experience, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the stain of Slavery and more, All are themes that converge in visual artist Lesley Dill's major exhibition entitled "WILDERNESS: Light Sizzles Around Me". This film grew from a conversation between Lacy Schutz, Executive Director of the Shaker Museum in Mt. Lebanon, and visual artist Lesley Dill. The exhibition will premiere first at the Figge Museum in Iowa in the summer of 2021.