In a recent interview Rebecca Tobey was asked what her favorite room is in her house. She answered, “The studio, of course!” Rebecca, the daughter of a scientist father and artist mother, was raised in Oak Ridge, TN. An extraordinarily artistic child she was the one who organized the neighborhood plays and arts and crafts projects. She was discouraged from majoring in art in college by her high school art teacher, and as a result she received both a Bachelors and master’s degree in Theatre Arts, focusing on scene design, stagecraft and props, creating art on a large scale. 

These days Rebecca and her rescued Springer Spaniel, Dexter, take long walks in the vast open space around her home in the country outside Santa Fe, NM where they often see mule deer, coyotes, rabbits and all kinds of birds. Nature inspires her work. After 38 years in the studio, she has a passion for exploring new images in both bronze and ceramic and loves the momenta a ceramic sculpture comes out of the kiln because, as she says, “It’s like Christmas morning every time.”

Rebecca’s sculpture is in numerous public and private collections including the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, The University of NM Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, The Booth Museum, Cartersville, GA, the Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, MT, the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, AZ and the Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts, Fort Collins, CO.