Cultivating Creativity: Lisa Spence Jewelry

SCOTT WILLIAMSQUINTE ARTS COUNCILThe mainspring, rockers and gears of an old watch movement becoming the beating heart of a pendant. An old-style skeleton key becomes the backbone of a miniature dragonfly. Everything old is wonderfully new again in the curious creations of artist Lisa Spence, whose Belleville studio is home to an impressively eclectic inventory of junk raw material: bits of wood from a home renovation, tire tubes and bicycle chains, crystals from a chandelier, coins from the tu