Howdy! I’m Rebecca Barnard – a photographer, signmaker, and graphic designer based in Dallas.

The daughter of an art teacher and a musician, my artistic tendencies were nurtured from an early age. My childhood in Cedar Hill, TX was filled with watercolors and Microsoft Paintbrush, ballet and Beatles records. As a teenager I was allowed to use my mother’s 35mm Minolta SLR camera, and found I really enjoyed playing with light and depth of field. A few years later, I took a darkroom photography class in community college, and I was hooked — such that I changed my major from web design to photography.

In 2010 I graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a BA in Art, with concentration in photography. I studied alternative processes with Scott Hilton, and my senior exhibition was a series of wet plate collodion tintypes. I love weird old cameras, antiquated photographic processes, and capturing all forms of beauty in the world.

I’m a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and my work was highlighted in a recent issue of my tribe’s magazine. I’ve shown photos in many group and juried exhibitions over the years, most recently the 2026 Oak Cliff Art Walk. From 2019-2022 I curated the art gallery housed inside a coffee bar in Midlothian, TX.

My bread and butter, however, is graphic design. I’ve been working in and around the sign industry since 2006. My first love was CorelDRAW, and I later taught myself Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. My strengths are in layout, typography, and bitmap vectorization. (Also, spelling and grammar are my JAM.)

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