Barbara M. Bickart
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2015 - Present Arts & Education Consultant
2019 - Present Artist in Residence
Unity Charter School, Morristown, NJ
2017 Visiting Artist
Drew University, Theater Department, Madison, NJ
2019 - Present Artist in Residence
Unity Charter School, Morristown, NJ
2017 Visiting Artist
Drew University, Theater Department, Madison, NJ
2012 – 2015 Full-time Visiting Faculty & Video Area Representative
Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Media Arts Department/Video, Boston, MA
2010 – 2011 Visiting Artist/Teaching Faculty Ohio State University,
Department of Dance, Columbus, OH
2010 – 2011 Visiting Artist/Professor, Moore College of Art & Design,
Philadelphia, PA
2009 - 2011 Socially Engaged Arts Development Trainer, Stockton,
Rush, Bartol Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Documentary Filmmaker & Consultant, Worldwide Orphans
Foundation, Maplewood, NJ
2005 - 2008 Teaching Faculty, Rutgers University, Institute for
Families, Piscataway, NJ
2005 - 2006 Guest Faculty; Visual Arts Department, Film/New Media,
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
SELECT EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2020 20/20 Abstraction, www.i19gallery.com
2019 BLUE, Gallery@46 Green Street, Hudson, NY
2019 Coactiion Collaborative Art Experiment, Maplewood, NJ
2019 Convergence, Herb & Milly Iris Gallery, South Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange, NJ
2018 Valley Arts Exhibition, Valley Arts, Orange, NJ
2017 Valley Arts Exhibition, Valley Arts, Orange, NJ
2014 Monuments, Memory and the Art of ‘Found Choreography,
Keynote Address and Screenings of WHEN series at
DOCAM’14, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2014 Documents Without Borders, Kent State University, Kent,
OH
2014 Violence Transformed, video stills, Resnikoff Gallery,
Boston, MA
2013 WHEN: Memphis, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Black
Box, Columbus, OH, curated by Jennifer Lange
2013 WHEN: Memphis & WHEN: Philadelphia, The Painted
Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2012 WHEN: Memphis, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA,
curated by Catharina Manchanda
2012 Gesture (inclusive) An exhibition, Hopkins Hall Art Gallery,
Columbus, OH
2009 NJ State Council for the Arts Fellows, Visual Art Center of
NJ, Summit, NJ (catalogue)
2008 - 2009 From Memphis to Atlanta: The Drum Major Returns
Home, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site,
Atlanta, GA
2007 Ideas in Motion, Boston Cyberarts Festival, MIT, Boston, MA
2007 Careful #5: SALT, installation, Art Museum of the University
of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2007 WHEN: Memphis, video performance installation, University
of Memphis/Fed Ex Institute/Lantana Projects in
cooperation with the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
2007 Careful, 1 – 4, installation, Jersey City Museum, Jersey
City, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda Alvarado
2005 QueerNormal, video installation Queer Zagreb Festival,
Gallerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia (catalogue)
2005 BAAD! Eyes, Bronx Academy of Art and Design, Bronx, NY
2004 NJ State Council for the Arts Fellows, Stedman Art Gallery,
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
2004 ARM Exhibition, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
SELECT PERFORMANCE & SOCIAL PRACTICE PROJECTS
2019. Reflecting OUT, Hetrick-Martin Institute: NJ, Newark, NJ
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2018 - 2019 I am from...We are from..., video performance installation
SOMA School District, Maplewood, NJ
Featured: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Arts Ed NJ
2017 - 2018 I Feel Powerful..., video performance installation
SOMA School District, Maplewood, NJ
2009 – 2013 WHEN: Philadelphia, video performance installation,
The Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Partner Project, collaboration with choreographer
Risa Jaroslow, Danspace Project, New York NY
2010 WHEN: Philadelphia, video performance installation,
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2009 - 2010 WHEN: Philadelphia, video performance installation,
the Village of Arts and Humanities Philadelphia, PA
2008 we call it the river…, video performance, Jersey City
Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2005 - 2006 Inside 4 Walls, Rijeka, Croatia & Budapest, Hungary
2005 – 2006 COIL, collaboration with the Village of Arts and Humanities,
Liz Lehrman Dance Company, and Elizabeth Johnson,
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2005 QueerNormal, commission for Queer Zagreb Festival,
Gallerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia (catalogue)
2000 – 2004 Turned Up Volume, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX;
Theater Offensive, Boston, MA
2004 Whole Sky, collaboration with Risa
Jaroslow, Dance Theater Workshop, New
York, NY (premiere); St. Petersburg, Russia; Cincinnati, OH
2001 - 2003 KEEPING THE FAITH – the prison project, collaboration
with Pat Graney Company, Seattle, WA and Tempe, AZ
2000 - 2003 I Look Up to the Sky Now, World Premiere; NewFest,
New York, NY Screened in venues worldwide
2003 In the House, collaboration with Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver
& Women Prisoners in the UK and Brazil; People’s Palace
Projects, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2002 - 2003 Strings Attached, collaboration with choreographer,
Risa Jaraslow, Hide Tide Dance, Inc., New York, NY
1998 – 2000 Girls &... collaboration with Mary Ellen Strom; The
Contemporary Art Center, The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
1993 - 2000 School's OUT/ TAG – we’re it! Collaboration with Mary
Ellen Strom, Dance Theater Workshop’s Public Imaginations
Program, New York, NY
SELECT GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2018 Artists in Education, Young Audiences of NJ & PA, Princeton, NJ
2009 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD
2008 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, Trenton, NJ
2007 Rockefeller Media Fellowship Nominee (Renew), New York, NY
2007 University of Memphis, Fed Ex Institute & Lantana Projects, Memphis, TN
2005, 2006 Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, NY
1999, 2002, ’06, ‘07 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD
2003 - 2004 ARM (Artist Resource Media) Fellow, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
2003, 2004 FAR Fund for Social Change, New York NY
1998, 2001 New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, NY
2000, 2001 Dodge Foundation Fellowship for the 47th & 48th International Flaherty Seminar, NJ
2001 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, Trenton, NJ
2001 ASTRAEA Foundation, New York, NY
SELECT LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
2017 Drew University, Madison, NJ
2011 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2011 Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2011 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2010 Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelpia, PA
2010 Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education
at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
2010 New Forest Institute, Brooks, ME
2009 Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey City University,
Jersey City, NJ
2008 New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2007 University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2007 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2006 Community Arts Institute, Mid Atlantic
Arts Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (at Moore College of Art & Design)
2002 New York University, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY.
Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library, New York, NY.
New York University, School of Social Work Library, New York, NY.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.
The National Archive of Lesbian & Gay History, New York, NY.
