Breana Ferrara is a jeweler, metalsmith, and maker of excessive body adornment in Fitchburg, MA. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts 3D: Jewelry/Metalsmithing from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston. Breana uses fiber techniques such as beading, lace-making, sewing, and crochet along with traditional metalsmithing like repousse, enameling, and stone setting, to make pieces that are gluttonous, decadent, sensual, perverted, repulsive, and excessive. Her curiosity lies in bodies that have been deemed as taboo, uncomfortable, or aesthetically displeasing by our culture and society — those that are corpulent, overflowing, sagging, dripping — and exploring their dual disturbing and exciting natures, while using excessive, repetitive process to emphasize and celebrate those forms. Common themes explored in her body of work include shame, hedonism, relationships, sexuality, and connection.