Melissa Fabbri joins Meredith League of New Hampshire Craftsmen

MEREDITH — Metalsmith and jeweler Melissa Fabbri was recently named as a juried member of The Meredith League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Fine Craft Gallery.

Fabbri’s creativity took shape as a child, as a daughter of an electrician, playing around with copper wire scraps and her father’s tools. Now, she works to create a collection of jewelry that evokes a sense of simplicity and flow.

Fabbri received a bachelor of fine arts degree in metalsmithing at MassArt in Boston in 2013. Since then, she has been working with the simplicity and beauty of nature in mind, highlighting its perfect curation of that simplicity, repetition, and texture into her jewelry designs. She uses wire and hammered textures to create repetition and movement that echo those of pointed mountain peaks or the detailed tip of a leaf, adding hand-cut gemstones that seem to grow from the metal itself.

Throughout her metalsmithing journey, Fabbri has always found herself being drawn back to her roots of playing around with copper wire as a child, coiling and bending the wire to make animal sculptures and pendants. Now, her wire play is more refined, and her goal is to take the often-overlooked material of copper and transform it into something elegant and exciting.

For more information, visit meredith.nhcrafts.org.