Born in Athens, Alabama a very, very long time ago.  Studied mathematics and science through high school and college adding a Master of Science degree in Microbiology and an MBA in Marketing, post graduate.  

She worked in the science side of things for a limited time before discovering she much preferred people to Petri dishes.  Spent much of her career in Sales and ended up as Vice President of Training and Development for an international Human Resource Consulting firm. 

Bobbi didn’t discover her “artistic” side until after she had retired from the business world to the mountains of western North Carolina.  She moved here with her husband, the Artist in the family at that time, so that he would be in an environment conducive to the continuing of his artistic endeavors.   

Once established in Murphy, North Carolina, to pass the time, she enrolled in classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School.  In the past 7 years, she has taken over  60 classes in a variety of artistic areas, but became fascinated with glass as an artist’s medium after taking an introductory kiln-formed glass class.

She has been working in fused glass for about 6 and a-half years.  When the local art glass store closed its doors, and she wasn’t happy with the fact that glass ordered on-line often didn’t look like the photo on the website, she added hand painted glass to her résumé and began creating her own painted patterns on her pieces.  She has taken many Fused Glass classes, including a number of advanced classes at both the John C Campbell Folk School and at Arrowmont School for the Arts in Gatlinburg, TN. 

She works out of her home studio in Murphy, North Carolina and teaches Fused Glass classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C.