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Woman Who Does Leather Creations at Paradise City Arts Festival

Jewelry designer Jennifer Briggs in her Northborough studio. Daily News Staff Photo/Ken McGagh

MARLBOROUGH - Be sure to examine Jennifer Briggs' original Versa necklace if y'all're looking for meticulously crafted and exquisite jewelry at Paradise Urban center Arts Festival.

Making her first festival advent, the Northborough artisan will be showing and selling several original lines of fine jewelry, including her signature necklace that tin ofttimes be worn in dissimilar styles.

For example, her Versa necklace tin be worn long to arrange a certain blouse or be doubled up for a more casual impression. Preparing for the popular festival at the Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, she demonstrated how a section of her Versa necklace tin can be removed to be worn as a bracelet with still enough left for a mid-length necklace.

Custom-made from 18 karat white and xanthous gold with 20 dissever floral-themed elements as well as 18 precision-cut diamonds, Briggs' signature necklace reflects her commitment to originality in her work.

Though a kickoff-time exhibitor at the pop festival than runs March 21, 22, and 23, she brings a lifetime of experience and passion to her vocation.

That might also describe the other 174 artisans and arts and crafts workers from beyond the land selected for one of the region's about popular festivals.

Since starting in Northampton in 1995 and Marlborough 1998, Paradise City has earned national recognition for bringing high-quality artists and crafts workers together at a single venue to sell their appurtenances in a broad spectrum of prices that suit most budgets.

Founding director Linda Postal service said this flavour's show in Marlborough features about 40 new exhibitors in a festival that she expects to exist evenly counterbalanced among the "big three areas'' of fine arts, furniture and home furnishings and jewelry and fashion.

She said near 30 percentage of the 175 exhibitors will be offering fine arts, including painting, photography, works on paper and wall art more often than not featuring landscapes, figurative painting and nature scenes.

"In that location will exist 14 furniture makers which is an increase for this bear witness. They work in many different materials (including) wood, metal and ceramics. In addition to cabinets, dining sets and beds, (visitors) volition as well run across fine small tables, artistic shelving units and even entertainment centers,'' she said. "Jewelry and wearables are about evenly divided. Since it will hopefully be spring shortly, the wearable art is lightweight and colorful. In that location are spring coats and blazers, sundresses, straw hats, reasonably-priced silk scarves and shawls to apparel upward your wardrobe and leather handbags and jackets.''

In add-on to Briggs, Post cited several other "new and noteworthy'' Bay Country exhibitors working with widely varied materials too making their first appearance at Paradise Metropolis.

A modern master of Art Nouveau flourishes, Paula Garbarino, of Stow, fashions finely crafted furniture featuring her decorative patterns that embellish much of her piece of work that has been exhibited in several museums.

Working in Groveland, Larry Elardo creates hit outdoor ceramic sculptures suggestive of ancient Heart Eastern compages and mosaics. But some of his recent work has been designed for interiors, including lighting desks and tables layered with three-dimensional designs.

Francine T. Ozereko uses porcelain to create whimsical blackness-and-white stacked sculptures often decorated with birds on vases, teapots and ladders.

Post promised visitors "you lot won't encounter 2 jewelers making them same items anywhere in the bear witness.'' "We ever jury for a broad and diverse spectrum of aesthetics, prices and materials. … You'll run into high ends gold and gemstones, costume jewelry of glass, silver, clay, even newspaper (including) a brooch for your mother, a necklace for your wife, lots of engagement and wedding rings and fun, affordable jewelry for the under-thirty crowd.''

Post added there will be "quite a bit of big sculpture,'' divided equally betwixt abstract and representational work.

Like many Paradise City exhibitors, Briggs has been making art almost her life.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Briggs began stringing chaplet when she was five and got her kickoff set of jeweler's tools in the 2nd grade.

"I did information technology because I loved it. I've never stopped loving information technology. I only have to do it,'' she said in the classy exhibit and studio she calls "my haven.''

Briggs earned an MFA in metalsmithing and jewelry blueprint at Indiana University and was after certified as a gemologist past the Gemological Constitute of America.

While she started her jewelry business, J. Briggs & Company in 1997, the mother of 10- and 14-year-one-time sons has been developing several personal lines now she has more than free time.

Specializing in custom jewelry, Briggs might craft a whimsical octopus medallion representing busy moms who need eight artillery to consummate all the family chores to exquisite pieces like her Legacy Bracelet for her 99-year-erstwhile grandmother with 45 jewels for three generations of children. Her work can be seen at www.jbriggsandco.com.

Briggs said, "Helping my clients capture their story or celebrate a life event with jewelry is a privilege.''

"The way people's eyes lite up when you lot give them a cute piece of jewelry tin can be very fulfilling,'' she said. "… The best designs are born from a collaboration - understanding their needs and lifestyle. It is oft a piddling emotional, but always a lot of fun!''

Chris Bergeron is a Daily News staff author. Contact him at cbergeron@wickedlocal.com or 508-626-4448. Follow u.s. on Twitter @WickedLocalArts and on Facebook.

Paradise Urban center Arts Festival

WHEN: March 21, 10 a.m.–five p.m.; March 22, 10 a.yard.–six p.m.; Sun, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

WHERE: All-time Western Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center, 181 Post Post Road West, Marlborough

INFO; 888-543-9500; 508-460-0700; www.paradisecityarts.com

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