Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM) is an international community mining and recycling project that is at once a project, a performance, and an event that links recycling and reuse with the creation of innovative jewelry. Volunteer miners dig out and donate their old jewelry. Jewelers work as refiners and designers, using environmental and human health as primary design criteria for making new jewelry. The project creates
Initiatives in Art and Culture (IAC) stands with Toby Pomeroy and Mercury Free Mining (MFM), an initiative that exists to create a mercury-free gold supply chain. Over 15 million members of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) community in developing countries eke out a meager existence without an alternative to using toxic mercury as part of their gold-extraction process. MFM exists to find a
IAC celebrates Better Without Mercury and the work that has been accomplished by La Fortaleza since its inception. We congratulate them for maintaining purpose and invite you to join us in supporting their transformational efforts for 2023. Better Without Mercury (@betterwithoutmercury) is a fundraising campaign to remove mercury contamination and rehabilitate previously contaminated land at La Fortaleza, an artisanal gold mine in Colombia. Link to
We gratefully acknowledge funding from CollisArt LLC; Conner Rosenkranz; Debra Force Fine Art; D. Wigmore Fine Art; Gill & Lagodich; Graham Shay; Hawthorne Fine Art, LLC; Hollis Taggart Galleries; Kenneth R. Woodcock; The Louis and Lena Minkoff Foundation; Marty O’Brien; The Steven Alan Bennett Foundation, Susan Lueck, and anonymous donors, as well as support received from Bonham’s and ACA Galleries (as of November 30, 2022).
A review of Thursday's proceedings at IAC’s 27th Annual American Art Conference. Warmest thanks to all who joined!
A review of Wednesday at IAC’s 27th Annual American Art Conference. Warmest thanks to all who joined!
A review of Tuesday at IAC’s 27th Annual American Art Conference. Warmest thanks to all who joined!
Nick Cave deals with spectacle and responsibility in his installations and textile works, including his iconic Soundsuits, blending sculpture, costume design, and instrument-making. Learning to sew while repairing hand-me-downs from older siblings led to the first in his Soundsuit series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures often made with found objects. Influences of African art traditions, armor, ceremonial dress, couture fashion, designed textiles, and stereotypically feminine objects
Initiatives in Art and Culture celebrates Moyo Gems (@moyogems). Building on a gemology education initiative developed by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in collaboration with NGO Pact, Moyo Gems provides the world’s first sustainable market for colored gemstones from artisanal sources. Meaning 'heart' in Swahili (the dominant language in Tanzania) and in some other languages on the African continent, Moyo Gemstones is an ethical
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