associate professor fibers
bpickett@uoregon.edu
office 110 Millrace1a
(541) 346-3658
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Since 1975 Barbara Setsu Pickett has been the curricular coordinator for the Fibers Area and its principal instructor. Her goal is to help each student develop his or her visual voice and find materials and processes that make unique the individual's history, esthetics, concepts and intent. She believes the most direct way to achieve a strong, innovative, visually articulate voice is to build on skills and knowledge of textile traditions and studio practice. Her students are encouraged to explore the wide range of fiberarts, high and low tech processes, and to discover and invent the language of fibers.
Following her interest in symmetry and pattern, she has twice taught a graduate seminar on the subject which drew students from all the curricular areas plus Interiors and Architecture. She has participated in the international annual conference called Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science.
For the past twenty years velvet weaving has been the focus of her research and creative work. She has studied velvet weaving in Italy, France, England, Turkey, Japan and China. Her research has been supported by grants and awards from the Oregon Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Institute of Turkish Studies, the UO Center of the Study of Women in Society, and four UO Summer Research awards. The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded her a Bellagio residency for Fall 2002. She has presented her research in many public lectures among which are keynote addresses at the national Complex Weavers conference and the Ars Textrina International Conference on Textiles.
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