MARGIE BLOOMFIELD HUEBNER
Margie has been interested in art since childhood. In high school she was taking ribbons with her drawings, and selling soft sculpture dolls to gift stores in her native northwest Colorado.
She majored in art at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Az.
Her growing interest in beads was spurred when she went to work at a bead store in Tempe, Az. She became head instructor, teaching bead stringing and design, and learned and taught the arts of peyote stitch and making Femo beads.
Through the years, she has continued to add to her skills. She took a class in jewelry Making at Scottsdale Community College in Scottsdale, Az. and learned silver smithing and metal work. She later worked with the professor, teaching Femo bead making, peyote stitch and eventually, lampwork bead making as a part of that class.
In Arizona, with it's community of lampwork bead makers, it was only natural that Margie made lampwork beads her next challenge. With tapes and a book she began teaching herself.
Her beads have been featured in galleries and shops throughout Arizona and Colorado and her beads have been sold by major bead stores in Arizona and throughout the world. Several years ago she moved to southwest Colorado and continues to make beads and jewelry for bead stores and galleries. She has taught Lampwork bead making and Polymer clay classes at the AHA! School of Arts in Telluride and Norwood, Co. She is also a regular lister on e-bay under the seller name of bmmbeads.
Margie is the mother of two daughters who are very much a part of her work and inspiration. Life and work are intertwined in joyous creation. Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?
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