AGTA GemFair™ January 31 – February 5, 2023 Tucson, AZ IAC looks forward to the AGTA GemFair in Tucson! These are two program highlights we'll be attending: Friday, February 3: 9:00 – 9:55 AM A report on Sri Lanka mining, supply challenges, and market forecast from this important country and peoples, as they endure hardship and recovery Panelists: Tiffany Steven, JVC, and John Bradshaw, Gemcutter,
IAC congratulates writer and curator Melanie Grant whom The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) has appointed its executive director.
Initiatives in Arts and Culture & CIBJO’s Jewellery Industry Voices jointly present: Sustainability Through Successful Succession January 22, 2023 — 11:15AM-12:15PM (GMT+1) Speakers: Alice Cicolini, London, a jewelry designer who has worked with one of the last Jaipuri meenakari trained in the great enamel traditions of Persia Enzo Liverino, Torre del Greco, owner of a family-owned coral company who preserves the historic legacy of his
IAC was pleased to be involved in this meeting of People and Mining, in which panelists considered iconic historic and contemporary artistic works relating to mining in a wide range of media and discussed how artworks have powerfully influenced and continue to shape perceptions of and attitudes toward mining practice and communities: art is an important vehicle for valorization or vilification of mining. Lisa was
Friday 13th January — 9:00 – 10:30 EST Join IAC and People and Mining to exchange knowledge, develop ideas, and foster new collaborations that help shape the future of People and Mining in this online panel discussion. The panelists: Dana Finch (Deep Earth Synergies), Gabriel Kamundala (University of Zurich), Lisa Koenigsberg (IAC), Peter Oakley (RCA's Material Engagements Research Cluster)
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
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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