Susan Kleckner Papers, ca.1970-2010. 65 (ca.100 linear feet). A
feminist, filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, writer,
and New Yorker, Susan Kleckner helped to define the Feminist Art
Movement. Born in 1941, Kleckner was instrumental in uniting
Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) with Feminists in the Arts in
1969, and in 1970 she became a founder of the Women’s Interart
Center, which still fosters women artists in the performing,
visual, and media arts. A talented and prolific visual artist,
she produced several important video documentaries during her
career, beginning with Three Lives (made in collaboration with
Kate Millet in 1970), which is considered the first all-women
produced feature documentary. Her work often reflected a
feminist commitment to the cause of peace: she participated in
and photographed the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in
England during the mid-1980s and in 1987, she curated a major
year-long installation on Broadway called WindowPeace. A
brilliant teacher, Kleckner was the