Susan Kleckner was a feminist filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, and writer active from the late 1960s until 2010 and based in New York City.
13 Facts About Susan Kleckner
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Susan Kleckner began suffering from bipolar disorder in her teenage years.
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Susan Kleckner joined her first feminist consciousness raising group in the late 1960s.
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Susan Kleckner became the first woman to teach photography at the Pratt Institute in 1969, and helped found the Women's Interart Center in 1970.
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Birth Film, a short documentary self-directed by Susan Kleckner, premiered at the Whitney Museum in 1973.
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Reviewers described feeling sick due to Birth Film's graphic nature, prompting Susan Kleckner to take a break from filmmaking.
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Susan Kleckner led workshops at the Pratt Institute, New York University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Susan Kleckner visited Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp three separate times from 1984 to 1987, and topographed and videotaped the situation, and later edited her footage from Greenham Common into The Greenham Tapes.
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In February 1988, Susan Kleckner suffered from a mental health breakdown due to her bipolar disorder, and spent time in a locked mental health ward.
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Susan Kleckner was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, and began to volunteer with SHARE Cancer Support as a result.
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Susan Kleckner continued to teach, make drawings, and take photographs.
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Susan Kleckner acted as an advisor at the One Spirit Interfaith Learning Alliance and worked with the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance.
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Susan Kleckner's work was donated to the W E B Du Bois Library in January 2012.