Our Team

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    Laurie Savage

    Laurie Savage received a BFA in metalsmithing from MassArt in 1998.  She has taught the jewelry program at Cambridge Center for Adult Ed since 1999, as well as metalsmithing and jewelry classes / workshops at Metalwerx, DeCordova, Brookline Adult Ed, Arlington Community Ed, LEXArt, and Haystack.  Laurie maintains a studio at the Distillery artists building in South Boston.  Her work is available by commission.

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    Madeline Fine

    Madeline Fine is an accomplished jeweler and owner of finecreationsjewelry, a custom, handcrafted jewelry business in Brookline Village. An alumna of MassArt and UMass Boston.

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    Michel L’Huillier

    Born in Nancy, France, Michel is a stained glass and fused glass artist, specializing in architectural commissions. He also creates fused and etched objects that are in display in many New England art galleries. Michel has been teaching stained glass and fused glass at various venues in Metro Boston since 2003.
    Website: michellhuillierglass.com

  • Lisa Heffley

    Lisa Heffley

    Lisa Heffley fell in love immediately when her high school art teacher introduced silversmithing and she's been creating jewelry ever since. Lisa's sculptural mixed metal jewelry evolve from a deep personal relationship to the natural world. Lisa sells her work at craft markets, open studios, several stores as well as exhibited in a number of museums in the Boston area. Lisa maintains a studio in her Roslindale home.

  • JoAnn & Jon Prescott-Roy

    JoAnn & Jon Prescott-Roy

    Jon and Joann are a husband-and-wife team of metalsmiths. They began studying silversmithing with Laurie Savage in 2007 at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and they continue to work with her today at Motherbrook in Dedham, MA. In addition, they have taken intensive courses with Betty Helen Longhi, Munya Avigail Upin, Michael Good and John Cogswell. Jon and Joann’s work synthesizes traditional metalsmithing techniques with modern 3D digital techniques to create novel three dimensional forms.

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    Chen Blume

    Chen is a multidisciplinary designer who lives in the Boston area. Founder of Blume Studio Jewelry . She teaches and the Program Director at ORE.

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    Orietta Geha

    Orietta Awad Geha is a founding member of Oremetalsstudio and the class coordinator of metals at the Mother Brook Community Arts Center in Dedham MA. She started at the DeCordova museum school with Florece Hollingsworth, moving from Jewelry to holloware to larger sculptural pieces and Enameling. It has been a long, exciting and fun ride and hope to continue for many more years while I share the space with new artists

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    Irene Briedis

    Founder and metal artist. She started at the DeCordova museum school with Florece Hollingsworth, and founded Ore Metals when the school closed.