[1] Born in New York, Bartlett attended San Francisco State University[2] and earned a degree in Information Sciences at University of California, Berkeley.
[4] The Serious Business Company distributed work made by Tom DeWitt, Gunvor Nelson, Chick Strand, Robert Breer, Suzan Pitt, George Griffin, Shirley Clarke, Kathy Rose and Robert Nelson, as well as many other artists.
[2] In 1985 she founded Metropolis Media, a communications firm.
[2] She had a daughter, Stevias Solomon and a son Elon Bartlett.
Prior to starting the Serious Business Company, Bartlett made lyrical autobiographical films that explored the connection between animals and humans and employed formal devises like superimposition and dissolves.