With a two-day series of events, Stanford University Libraries and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation will celebrate the Libraries’ recent digitization of Schneemann’s diaries alongside the acquisition of additional archival materials preserved by the Schneemann Foundation, building upon the original acquisition of the Carolee Schneemann Papers from the artist in 2012. 

This event listing is for a screening of three of Carolee Schneemann's films: Viet-Flakes (1962-67), Fuses (1964-1967), and Plumb Line (1968-1971) on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from 5 - 6:30 pm in McMurtry Hall, Room 115.  Rachel Churner, the Director of the Schneemann Foundation, will be introducing the films. Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is required in advance. Please note that there is a cap of 45 people for this event.

See info and registration for the other "Celebrating Carolee Schneemann’s Archives at Stanford" events:

• Viewing of the Carolee Schneemann Diaries, Monday, 10/20 from 2:30 - 4 pm
• Keynote and Panel Discussion with Peggy Phelan and Kenneth White on Monday, 10/20 from 5 - 7:30 pm
• Discussion on Working with the Schneemann Archive with Katie Anania and Dejan Vasić on Tuesday, 10/21 from 2 - 4 pm

About Carolee Schneemann:

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most influential artists of the second part of the twentieth century. Her pioneering work in a range of media—painting, film, video, dance and performance, installation, and the written word—is characterized by radical formal experimentation and critical investigations of subjectivity, the erotic and taboo, and the social construction of the female body.

Co-sponsored by Stanford University Libraries, the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, and the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Accessing the Carolee Schneemann Papers at Stanford:

Researchers can access the physical Carolee Schneemann Papers, including the diaries, in the Special Collections and University Archives reading room at Stanford’s Cecil H. Green Library. More information on how to place requests and access the reading room is on the Libraries’ website at library.stanford.edu under “Explore Collections.” Online public access to the digitized diaries is available via Searchworks, the Libraries’ catalog.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Lindsay King at kingl@stanford.edu!