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 a transparent circular supply chain that starts at donors’ jewelry boxes. Once gathered, donations are sorted, organized, and put into the hands of talented jewelers who innovate and design new work with this previously unwanted material. Madeover jewelry goes out into the world and spreads the story of RJM, embodying transparency and circularity within the field of jewelry.