Barbara Setsu Pickett Eugene, Oregon Barbara Setsu Pickett has researched handwoven silk velvet in China, Japan, Turkey, England, Italy and France over the last 24 years. She adapts traditional velvet weaving techniques and employs them in her art using designs drawn from her travels. She has headed the Fibers Area in the Department of Art at the University of Oregon since 1975. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, the Oregon Arts Commission and the Institute of Turkish Studies. For Fall of 2002, she was awarded a Bellagio residency by the Rockefeller Foundation; in 2003, she was artist-in-residence at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco where she wove miniature books based on the Japanese velvet weaving techniques that she learned in Kyoto and Hagahama, Japan. Breviary 1: 13 Moons cover: handwoven silk velvet on 16-shaft computer loom text: sewn Indian metallic cloth, silk organza silk cord & bead closure H 3" x W 2.75" x D .875" 2002 Recover Book 2: Increments cover: handwoven silk velvet on 16-shaft computer loom text: sewn silk organza, stitching silk cord & bead closure H3" x W3" x D.75" Frame H11" x W9" 2001 Old Sun artist book with handwoven silk velvet covers with stitched silk organza text H3" x W3" x D.5" 2003 Recover Book 5 cover: handwoven silk velvet on 16-shaft computer loom text: sewn silk organza, metallic thread & cloth, silk cord & bead closure H3" x W3" x D.75" 2001