Margot Huntington - (FEMININE MYSTIQUE ART GALLERY)

FEMININE MYSTIQUE ART GALLERY

Featuring: Margot Huntington, Gourd Mask Artist

Margot is a transplant from Salt Lake City, Utah. She moved to Arizona with her husband and two sons over twenty years ago. They moved to Tucson, Arizona, because the food chain we were both working for decided to open stores in Arizona. We had been to Arizona before and fell in love with the warm weather and we were tired of the cold and snow. They packed up their family and made the biggest move of all our lives.

Art had always been a love of Margot’s for as long as she could remember. She took all the art classes she could in high school and also adult classes after high school. Native American art is at the top of her interests and she found an abundance of it here in the desert Southwest. One day, while visiting a Tucson gift shop, she saw some wonderful gourd art and she just knew it was the medium for her!

Since relocating to Arizona, she has left the retail business to pursue her art interests. From 1994 to 2005 she was a production painter, painting southwest sculpture for a local company. In 2005, she left the production painting and concentrated her time on her personal art career.

Margot joined a gourd society (a group of local and national artists who meet monthly and exchange ideas and display their gourd art). She has sold her art in local art shows and galleries in Tucson and surrounding areas for the past nine years. She has created Native American type gourd masks which have become her specialty. She dedicates all her time now to the mask making.

In 2005, Margot entered the Wuretz Gourd Farm festival competion and won First Place in the mask division and Judge’s Overall Choice. She was featured artist at the Tucson Botanical Gardens, Porter House Gallery for the month of September, 2005. Also, her art was displayed in an Art Show in October, 2005, in Oro Valley and won third place in the Three-dimensional Division.

Currently, Margot’s art work is on display at the Desert Artisan Gallery; Tucson Botanical Gardens gift shop; Tucson Museum of Art gift shop; and Feminine Mystique Gallery in Tubac, Arizona.