Susan Wechsler is the former director of Photosearch Inc., a photo editing firm that specialized in art, history, and popular culture. Its packaging division, Fair Street Productions, produced illustrated art books for the publishing industry.

A former artist, art critic, author and specialist in contemporary American ceramics, she also taught at Parsons The New School for Design, and in the Cooper Hewitt Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design.