Publications

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Journals

Bickel, Barbara & Fisher, Vanessa (in press), Awakening the divine feminine: A stepmother-daughter collaborative journey through art making & ritual. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering.

Bickel, Barbara (in press), Writing the body/resistance/endurance: An a/r/tographical inquiry. Educational Insights online journal.

Bickel, Barbara (2003). Interviewed by Eva Tihanyi, Nude for thought. Niagara Current, Summer issue pp. 28-32.

ART PUBLICATIONS

2004 Angel Alley by Vivian Hansen, published by author, illustration and back and front cover image, Calgary AB.

2003 Autobiography in/as re-search and pedagogy: Writing, reading and considering women’s lives: An anthology of autobiographical writing by Luanne Armstrong, Barbara Bickel, Denise Clark et al. Vancouver, BC: Center for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of British Columbia, back cover illustration.

2003 Earth Dance Birth Dance, Nane` Jordan, New College of Calif., MA thesis cover image.

2001 Illuminatus, Barbara Bickel, published by author), illustrated.

2000 Restoring the Wickedness, Eva Thanyi, Thistledown Press Ltd., Saskatoon, SK., cover book image.

1999 Island of Women, Kathy Lynn Treybig, published by author, illustrations.

1998 Mourning the Dream: How Parents create meaning from miscarriage, stillbirth and early infant death, Claudia Malacrida, Quall Institute Press, University of Alberta, cover book image.

1997 Nasty Thoughts, Kathy Lynn Treybig, published by author, Calgary AB, 12 poetry illustrations.

1997 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Laura Shuler-Stuijfizand, cassette cover image.

1997 Echo Mazur: Instrumental, cassette cover image.

1997 too late to hurry: the portland sessions, Cheryl Fisher, CD cover image.

1996 Her Venus Signature: The Music of Cheryl Fisher, cassette cover image.

1996 The Art and Poetry of Sisters, with Jan Sheppard, published by the author), illustrated.

1993 Opening doors; A guide to spontaneous creation-making, co-authored with R.M Fisher, Calgary AB: In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute.

1993 Birthing the masculine. Lodgepole Pine, 13(1), 9.

1992 Men as birthers, not destroyers; a painting series of men. Lodgepole Pine, 12(3), 13.

ARTISTIC WORK

Solo Art Exhibitions

2004 Who will read this body? multi-media MA thesis installation, AMS Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

2004 She Knows, Kensington Fine Art Gallery, Calgary AB.

2003 Fire at the Edge of Water, School of Ideas Gallery, Welland, Ontario

2003 Deepening Desire: a 10 year retrospective, Madeleine Wood curator, Vancouver E. Cultural Center Gallery, BC

2002 She Knows, art & sound installation, AMS Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

2002 Bodies Menagerie, Mezzanine Gallery, University of Calgary, AB

2001 Illuminatus, Unitarian Church of Vancouver, Sanctuary, Vancouver, BC

2001 Illuminatus, The Centre Gallery, Calgary, AB

2000 Battle Cries: In Search of the Warrior Woman, The Centre Gallery, Calgary, AB

1999 Back from the Coast, The Centre Gallery, etc. room, Calgary, AB

1998 The Spirituality of Eroticism, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB

1997 Venus Crossings, The Centre Gallery, Calgary, AB

1997 Her Venus Signature, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB

1996 Her Venus Signature, The Centre Gallery, Calgary, AB

1996 Re-emergence, Art is Vital Gallery, Calgary, AB

1996 Weaving the Fragments, Candler Art Gallery, Camrose AB

1995 Sisters, The Centre Gallery, Calgary, AB

1995 Victorian Sisters, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, BC

1994 Grounded in Figure, Art is Vital Gallery, Calgary, AB

1993 Birthing the Masculine Self, Devonian Gardens, Calgary, AB

1993 Men as Birthers, not Destroyers, Turacos Gallery, Calgary, AB

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Medicine Hat Art College

AIDS Calgary

Nanaimo Art Gallery

Calgary Birth Control Association

Private Collections in North America, Britain & Nigeria

Background photo: Philippe Raphanel