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Related Peace Movements: Window Peace

Greenham Commons Women’s Peace Camp inspired related peace movements in the U.K. as well as abroad. One such movement was Window Peace, a year-long live-in performance art installation in New York City. As a tribute to the protestors of the original movement, who at the time had been living outside of the Greenham RAF camp, women artists and activists created a rotation series of art installations in an empty storefront along West Broadway in Manhattan.

The Window Peace installation, originated in 1986 by artist Susan Kleckner, took place in the Soho Zat storefront, located in lower Manhattan. As had been the established by the Greenham Commons movement, only women artists could participate; however men artists were allowed to participate if they had been invited by a woman. Each week for an entire year, beginning December 12, 1986 until December 12, 1987, women artists occupied the storefront window with their own works of art. Among the artists, were Susan Kleckner (also the originator), Ann Snitow, Dianna Moonmade, Sharon Jaddis, Tequila Minksy, Anne Meiman, Carol Jacobsen, Joyce George, Jane Winter, Marsha Grant, Greenham and Seneca, Catherine Allport, Eileen Jones, Susann Ingle, Sharon Smith, Linda Montano, Dominque Mazur, Cenen, Pamela Schumaker, Judy Trupin, Connie Samaras, E.A. Racette, Peggey Lowenberg and Maggie Ens, Kathy Constantinides, Elaine Pratt, Coco Gordon, Sally Jacque, Kay Roberts, Anna Rubin, Renee Rockoff, Harriet Glazier, Karen Marshall, Paula Allen, among others.