Bartolozzi received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Delaware, and her Masters in Fine Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis under a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Bartolozzi is represented by The Forum Gallery, Inc. in New York City. She is a contemporary realist who works with the human figure in narrative and allegorical themes. She has served as a Visiting Artist for Horizons in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, and Horizons to Go travel programs in Europe and Mexico. She has been Adjunct Faculty at Indiana University, in Indianapolis, Indiana, The University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, and the National Academy of Art in New York, New York.

One-person exhibitions of her work have been presented by Forum Gallery in New York in 2008, the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover Delaware under the Masters Fellowship in the Arts Grant in 2005, the Delaware Division of the Arts under an Individual Artist Fellowship in 1992, the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1984, and the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware in 1997. She has also exhibited her work in group exhibitions at the Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Spruill Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, The Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, and The Kitchen and Knoedler & Company in New York City. Her work has been included in exhibitions abroad with the Gruppo Donatello in Florence, Italy, the Vonderau Museum in Fulda, Germany, and the Kalmar Lans Museum in Kalmar, Sweden. Her work is included in private and museum collections.