Barbara Setsu Pickett
Barbara Setsu Pickett, an Associate Professor Emerita, in the Department of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, focuses her research and creative practice on velvet weaving, shibori, natural dyeing, and the book arts. Among her awards are a Fulbright Research fellowship, a Rockefeller Bellagio residency, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Gladys Krieble Delmas fund and Institute of Turkish Studies. She and her son Michael formed the Mihara Shibori Studio in 2005, and they create highly textured silk scarves in distinctive palettes expanding on the Japanese traditional shibori techniques.
