She took part in the JSS Summer Program in Italy twice, studying and participating in workshops alongside artists Lennart Anderson, Stuart Shils, and Raoul Middleman.

She dedicated herself to architectural projects such as the building and renovation of private homes, as well as communal spaces and libraries in elementary schools to improve the educational climate.

[10] Barkat started experimenting with new techniques, application methods and materials, the most prominent being the use of transparent PVC sheets as support for her paintings.

After the Tribes projects the spectator into another dimension, in which space is annulled and viewers find themselves in an imaginary place that evokes a story reaching back across the millennia.

The work is currently installed at the Gottesman Family Aquarium in Jerusalem, and will later be exhibited in the lobby of a building in the new World Trade Center overlooking Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.