Baker Artist Portfolios

Visual artist Rebecca Rothey studied photography under Geoff Delanoy while working towards her undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Maryland. As an adult, part-time student, photography allowed her a much needed creative respite from the pressures of work and school. She learned photography by developing film and making gelatin silver prints using traditional darkroom techniques. Continuing to make images since her graduation in 2007, she now works solely with digitally captured and processed images. Her images are inspired by traditional French and American street photography as well as by other mid-20th Century photographers and genres. Attending Peter Turnley’s Street Photography workshop in 2006 and several Vision Quest workshops with Doug Beasley also influenced her image making approach.

Rothey’s first artistic influence was her mother, an illustrator and watercolorist. Rothey returned to drawing and painting, enjoyed throughout her school years, in 2020 during the pandemic. She is currently studying watercolor with Zina Poliszuk and also attended mentoring sessions and workshops with Eric Wiegardt, AWS, DF, Tony Couch, and ZL Feng, AWS. Her work has been selected for inclusion in regional exhibitions and at the Rhode Island Watercolor Society. In addition to painting, Rothey serves as the cartoonist for the professional journal Planned Giving Today.