Lisa Issenberg is in the business of taking a significant moment in a person’s life and crafting it into a memory they can hold in their hands.

Out of her Ridgway workshop on Clinton Street, Issenberg designs and creates awards for organizations across the world, including the X Games, The North Face and the Audi FIS Ski World Cup.

But Issenberg’s love for metalworking wasn’t sparked until the tail end of her college years, when she came across a metalworker on a study abroad semester in Gre...