Introduction
"Feminist art focuses on people as wholes; the human is made up of body and emotion as well as mind and spirit." Marilyn French
I understand and experience art making to be a co-relational and performative ritual act. My art and inquiry projects to date have focused on socially-engaged art as public pedagogy, collaboration, and restorative and transformative learning. I have a particular interest in the problematics of representation of the human body in art and how embodied relationships with others, the environment and our selves, are represented, performed and understood in society. In many of these projects, I have worked with artists from diverse disciplines (i.e. dance, theatre, visual arts, creative writing, music), and with community members of all ages.
The past, present and future of my artworkings are devoted to understanding art and writing as an embodiment of sharable co-encounter events that hold possibilities for individual, cultural and environmental re-attunement, critical inquiry, healing and transformation.
Barbara Bickel
Exhibitions, Screenings & Books

April 12 2023 at 4pm PST
Film Screening & Discussion
with creator Barbara Bickel & soundtrack creator Richard Bickel
& Co-Inquiry
R. Michael Fisher and
Celeste Snowber

Join co-authors Barbara Bickel and R. Michael Fisher with Foreword writer Bracha L. Ettinger and Afterword writer Geraldine Burke in conversation regarding the 2023 released bok Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal: Education, Co-Inquiry & Healing
View Recording
New 2023 Book


Avian Ancestress at foot of spruce tree
the tenacity of
droppingto
ones’ knees
in
attendance to
other
Performative ritual enactment with raw clay figurine as part of a Creation Research project. Barbara Bickel, photograph fall 2020
On-Going Artworkings
Art, Ritual and Trance Inquiry Book Blog
a place for sharing events, conversations and teachings based
on the book
with R. Michael Fisher
Studio M*
a research creation lab intersecting arts, culture & healing
with R. Michael Fisher
with the Gestare Art Collective 2015
a community-engaged art project with the Gestare
Art Collective 2011-
Explorations of art, place and relationality 2015-2019
Student's Art 2010-
Copyright Barbara Bickel 2018