"Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner, on view at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026, is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist artist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Bringing together nearly 100 works, many never before publicly exhibited, the exhibition seeks to reposition Kleckner as a foundational figure in feminist, queer, and activist art histories."
"Active from the 1970s onward, Kleckner worked across film, photography, performance, collage, and installation, insisting that art function not as a polished commodity but as a site of political urgency, care, and survival. The exhibition's title references an unrealized late-life project documenting her experiences of institutionalization and recovery. For Kleckner, the 'raw' was not preparatory - it was the work itself: embodied, provisional, and unfiltered."
"Despite her centrality to feminist art and film circles, Kleckner's legacy was marginalized by structural inequities and compounded by mental and physical illness. This retrospective emerges from years of archival recovery centered on the Susan Kleckner Archives at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."
Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist artist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist, on view at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026. The exhibition brings together nearly 100 works, many never before publicly exhibited, spanning Kleckner's career from the 1970s onward across film, photography, performance, collage, and installation. Kleckner insisted that art function as a site of political urgency, care, and survival rather than as a polished commodity. The exhibition's title references an unrealized late-life project documenting her experiences of institutionalization and recovery. Despite her centrality to feminist art and film circles, Kleckner's legacy was marginalized by structural inequities and compounded by mental and physical illness. The retrospective emerges from years of archival recovery centered on the Susan Kleckner Archives at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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