Haverford College Exhibits

04/29/2026

Join us this Friday, May 1, 2026, 5—7pm at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery for the opening reception of the 2026 Haverford College Department of Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition!

The 2026 Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition, on view at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery from May 1 to May 16, 2026, represents the culmination of studies at Haverford for the seven graduating seniors. Over the course of the year-long Senior Seminar, each explored and refined the themes, methods, and concepts presented in this exhibition.

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Front row: Ella Mbanefo (HC, photography); Pascale Lowell (BMC, printmaking); Hazel Nguyen (BMC, painting); Nada Elshafey (BMC, sculpture) Back row: Skyler Kim-Schellinger (HC, painting); Sophie Morvan (BMC, painting); Alyssa Phillips (BMC, sculpture). Photo by John Goodrich

04/04/2026

This is the FINAL WEEKEND to see Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner! Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday 12pm - 5pm. DO NOT MISS IT!

Curated by William Kaizen, the exhibition spans over 40 years of creative experimentation and political engagement, offering a long-overdue exploration of Kleckner’s multifaceted career and illuminates her enduring influence on feminist, q***r, and activist art practices in the U.S. and beyond. The exhibition comprises approximately 100 works across photography, film, video, installation, and performance.

More info at https://exhibits.haverford.edu/rawmaterial/

Image: Susan Kleckner, Untitled. © Susan Kleckner Papers, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archive Research Center, UMass Amherst Libraries

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Major support for Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support provided by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.

04/01/2026

Don't miss your chance to see Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner, the first comprehensive survey of the pioneering feminist artist and filmmaker Susan Kleckner!

Comprised of approximately 100 works across photography, film, video, installation, and performance; the exhibition spans over 40 years of creative experimentation and political engagement, offering a long-overdue exploration of Kleckner’s multifaceted career and illuminates her enduring influence on feminist, q***r, and activist art practices in the U.S. and beyond.

Raw Material closes April 5th.

Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday: 11am—5pm
Wednesday: 11am—8pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12pm—5pm

More info: hav.to/rawmaterial

Major support for Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support provided by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.

03/27/2026

OPENING TODAY!
Friday, March 27th, 5:30pm

Do It Yourself
Photographs by Cristian Latorre ’27
VCAM Exhibition Wall + Lounge

Music @ 7pm:
HEAVY METAL CHESS CLUB
PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE
AND
ARMBITE

What do you do when the community you fit into doesn’t exist? You build it yourself. For many emo and alternative folks in Philadelphia, the do-it-yourself music scene is that community. In dirty basements and crowded rooms across Philly, these DIY music enthusiasts gather to share songs, ci******es, and laughter each weekend. In this body of work, Cristian Latorre '27 pays tribute to the warm, inviting, and accepting community that the DIY music scene has been for Cristian over the last year.

Sponsored by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and VCAM’s Malcolm Baldwin 1962 Fund. Co-sponsored by FUCS.

03/24/2026

On Friday, March 20th Window Peace: An Anarchive concluded at Public Trust.

For the final day, renowned performance artist Linda Montano revisited her Blindfold Window Peace performance in the window from 10am to 5pm engaging Kiran Jandu and Eddy Levin as collaborators and caretakers.

As the performance concluded, Montano, Jandu, and Levin joined artists Sharon Hayes and Susan Jahoda and curator William Kaizen for a community circle conversation that reflected on the performance, its historical antecedents, and so much more.

Many thanks to all who visited and engaged with Window Peace: An Anarchive and to the extended team who helped to make the event possible - Kiran Jandu, Eddy Levin, Arely Marisol Pena, Eva Wu, Angel Shanel Edwards, Linda Montano, Sharon Hayes, Susan Jahoda, William Kaizen, Daniel Weintraub, Matt O’Hare, Holden Blanco, and the mighty team of Aaron Levy and Jabriya Calabrese of Public Trust.

Be sure to follow Public Trust to keep tabs on their incredible programming.

Photos by Holden Blanco, HKB Photo

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Window Peace is a part of the programming for the exhibition Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner on view at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026. Major support for Raw Material is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.

03/20/2026

Day two of Window Peace: An Anarchive at Public Trust is complete! Yesterday's proceedings included a visit from artist Angel Shanel Edwards and later in the evening, a film screening and discussion of the film Deep Listening about the life and work of Pauline Oliveros with director Daniel Weintraub and artist and educator Matt O'Hare.

The work continues today with Kiran Jandu joined in the window by renowned performance artist Linda Montano!

Visit Window Peace 10am - 5pm today to see and experience the performance by Jandu and Montano and then Join us for a community circle (5pm - 6:30pm) to mark the closing of Window Peace.

The community circle will begin with an art-historical roundtable situating Window Peace within contemporary feminist lineage, followed by a public conversation between artists Linda Montano and Kiran Jandu and discussants Sharon Hayes and Susan Jahoda. The circle will close with a guided embodiment exercise and space for reflection and exchange.

More info at https://exhibits.haverford.edu/rawmaterial/ and https://publictrust.org/window-peace

Many thanks to Angel Shanel Edwards, Daniel Weintraub, and Matt O'Hare for their contributions on day two. And continued thanks to Aaron Levy and Jabriya Calabrese of Public Trust for their efforts in realizing the full suite of the Window Peace program.

Photos by Holden Blanco, HKB Photo

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Window Peace is a part of the programming for the exhibition Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner on view at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026. Major support for Raw Material is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support provided by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.

03/19/2026

Day one of Window Peace: An Anarchive at Public Trust is complete and day two is already underway!

Yesterday artist Kiran Jandu, guided by Eddy Levin and documented by Arely Marisol Pena and Holden Blanco, began their three day occupation of the window of Public Trust.

This program revisits and extends Susan Kleckner’s original Window Peace (1986-87), a yearlong feminist storefront performance project that positioned sustained presence and collective visibility as tools for political reflection and care.

In this contemporary reimagining, Kiran Jandu will honor Linda Montano’s 1987 performance through a blindfolded, seven-hour (10am - 5pm) daily practice of chakra-based meditation, joined throughout the days by visiting Philadelphia artists including Eva Wu (Wednesday 2-4pm) and Angel Shanel Edwards (Thursday 12-1:30pm). On Friday March 20, 2026, Linda Montano will perform Blindfold Window Peace again for seven hours in the window, followed by a community circle from 5-6:30pm with Sharon Hayes, Susan Jahoda, and other artists, academics, and activists.

In addition to the Window Peace performance, join us this evening, Thursday, March 19, 2026, 6-8:30pm for Deep Listening, a film screening and conversation about the life and work of Pauline Oliveros, the iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, innovator, and humanitarian. Following the screening, director Daniel Weintraub will engage in conversation with artist and professor Matt O'Hare.

More info at https://exhibits.haverford.edu/rawmaterial/

Photos: Holden Blanco, HKB Photo

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Window Peace is part of Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner on view at Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026. Major support for Raw Material and its programs is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support provided by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.

03/18/2026

Window Peace: An Anarchive begins today at Public Trust.

Join us at Public Trust for Window Peace: An Anarchive, a three-day durational performance program from March 18–20, 2026 from 10am-5pm. This program revisits and extends Susan Kleckner’s original Window Peace (1986-87), a yearlong feminist storefront performance project that positioned sustained presence and collective visibility as tools for political reflection and care.

In this contemporary reimagining, Kiran Jandu will honor Linda Montano’s 1987 performance through a blindfolded, seven-hour daily practice of chakra-based meditation, joined throughout the days by visiting Philadelphia artists including Eva Wu and Angel Shanel Edwards. On Friday March 20, 2026, Linda Montano will perform Blindfold Window Peace again for seven hours in the window, followed by a community circle from 5-6:30pm with Sharon Hayes, Susan Jahoda, and other artists, academics, and activists. Presented in partnership with Haverford College Exhibits’ Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner, on view at the Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026.

Window Peace was originally conceived by Susan Kleckner in 1986 amid escalating geopolitical tension and feminist organizing, at a moment when public space itself was understood as a site of ethical and political responsibility. By placing women artists in a storefront window for extended durations, the project proposed peace not as a slogan or policy, but as a practice enacted through time, attention, and relational presence. Kleckner’s assertion that “peace is fun” resisted narratives of sacrifice or austerity, instead framing joy, endurance, and collectivity as legitimate and necessary modes of resistance.
This Philadelphia iteration responds to contemporary conditions shaped by ongoing conflict, social fragmentation, and accelerated forms of communication that often leave little room for reflection or sustained encounter. Through durational performance, Window Peace: An Anarchive offers an alternative tempo, one that privileges slowness, repetition, and shared time.

Major support for Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner exhibition and its programs is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support provided by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.

Learn more at: https://publictrust.org/window-peace

Image: Artist Kiran Jandu readying for Window Peace at Public Trust, Philadelphia, March 17, 2026.

03/12/2026

Join us March 18–20, 2026 at Public Trust for Window Peace: An Anarchive, a three-day program that revisits and extends Susan Kleckner’s original Window Peace (1986-87), a yearlong feminist storefront performance project that positioned sustained presence and collective visibility as tools for political reflection and care.

The Window Peace: An Anarchive program includes:

March 18 - 20: Artist Kiran Jandu performing Window Peace from 10am-5pm. Jandu will be joined by Philadelphia artists Eva Wu on March 18 from 2-4pm and by Angel Shanel Edwards on March 19 from 12-1:30pm. On March 20, renowned performance artist Linda Montano will perform "Blindfold Window Peace" from 10am-5pm.

March 19, 6-8:30pm: "Deep Listening" film screening and conversation with director Daniel Weintraub and artist Matt O'Hare about the life and work of Pauline Oliveros, the iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, innovator, and humanitarian.

March 20, 2026, 5-6:30pm: Community circle to mark the closing of Window Peace. The circle will begin with an art-historical roundtable situating Window Peace within contemporary feminist lineage, followed by a public conversation between artists Linda Montano and Kiran Jandu and discussants Sharon Hayes and Susan Jahoda. The circle will close with a guided embodiment exercise and space for reflection and exchange.

Full details at hav.to/rawmaterial (Link in bio) and on the Public Trust website.

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Window Peace: An Anarchive is presented in coordination with the exhibition Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner on view through April 5, 2026 at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College.

Major support for Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support provided by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.

02/24/2026

"Desert Piece (Outtakes)" with live musical accompaniment by Henbane and "Pierre Film"

Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 7 p.m.
Lightbox Film Center
Bok Auditorium, 800 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148

*Event is FREE and open to the public

Artist Susan Kleckner often took to the road. Travelling to the deserts of the Southwest and California offered her solace during troubled times in her life. These film sequences were shot in Joshua Tree, California around the time of the equinox in 1981. They feature performance artists Tyaga and Curtis Ratliff, along with several other women moving through the landscape with their n**e bodies painted each in a single hue. At times they resemble the three graces, the classical symbol for beauty. At other times, Lady Godiva, n**e on horseback. At still others, the landscape photographs of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. This screening features live, improvised accompaniment by Philadelphia folk-psych band Henbane. (Susan Kleckner, USA, 1980, 40 min.)

Preceded by:
Pierre Film
A collaboration between Susan Kleckner and minimalist composer Pierre Ruiz, whom Kleckner met and befriended when he was part of Robert Wilson’s Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds. Ruiz’s haunting score is set against the meditative ebb and flow of waves against a shoreline. Kleckner uses multiple exposures and color tinting to further the rhythmic qualities of the piece. (Susan Kleckner, USA, 1977, 11 min.)

More info: hav.to/rawmaterial

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Major support for Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support provided by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.

Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner is the first comprehensive survey of the pioneering feminist artist and filmmaker Susan Kleckner.

01/27/2026

On Friday, January 23, 2026 friends, family, collaborators, and more came together to celebrate the art and life of Susan Kleckner at the opening of "Raw Material."

After presentations and conversation by curator William Kaizen and psychoanalyst and Kleckner collaborator Ona Lindquist, visitors were able to pick-up curator William Kaizen's essay, view the Raw Material exhibition, and mingle at the reception. Many thanks to the extended team of people who have helped bring this project to life and to all who joined us to welcome the opening of the exhibition.

The first comprehensive survey of the pioneering feminist artist and filmmaker Susan Kleckner, Raw Material is on view through April 5, 2026 and accompanied by a range of programs over the coming months. Visit hav.to/rawmaterial to learn more.

Photos: Holden Blanco, HKB Photo

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Major support for Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support provided by Haverford's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; Lightbox Film Center; Special Collections and University Archives, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst; and Public Trust.