Don’t know what to do with your old, unwanted, and broken jewelry?
Donate it to Radical Jewelry Makeover!
Those tangled chains, unmatched earrings and banged-up bracelets sitting at the bottom of jewelry boxes around the Farmville area are exactly what students want to get their creative hands on. Longwood University, in collaboration with the non-profit Ethical Metalsmiths, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Old Dominion University are bringing the international, traveling, community mining and jewelry recycling project, Radical Jewelry Makeover to Farmville, Richmond, and Norfolk, VA.
Until September 23rd, donations of unwanted jewelry are being accepted at locations around the Farmville area.
Donors will receive discount coupons to apply toward the purchase of a new piece and sales will benefit student scholarships as well as Ethical Metalsmiths' efforts to educate and connect people with responsibly sourced materials.
Radical Jewelry Makeover spotlights the creativity and skills of local jewelry designers and encourages the public to re-consideration habits of consumption.
Currently, materials used in jewelry production are sourced from some of the poorest countries in the world, sacred lands and disputed territories. Often this sourcing comes at a great cost to the environment. In this multi-institution project, RJM will bring together volunteer “miners,” who dig out and donate their old jewelry, with volunteer jewelers and students, working together as refiners and designers to collaborate on an exhibition of re-made jewelry. The exhibition will open early next year in Longwood’s Bedford Gallery. Radical Jewelry Makeover will offer an informed and creative alternative to traditional mining practices and jewelry production. You can help by donating some of the smallest items in your home, jewelry, for reuse and recycling.
Items may be dropped off at two locations in Farmville:
1. Longwood University, Bedford Hall
Art Department Office
424 Race Street
Rm 102
Farmville, VA 23901
hours: Mon - Fri 9am-5pm
2. Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA)
129 N Main St
Farmville, VA 23901
- 434-395-2206
hours: Tues - Sat, 11am-5pm, Sun, 1-5pm
MAIL-IN DONATIONS CAN BE SENT ANYTIME:
Mail to: Radical Jewelry Makeover
ATTN: Susie Ganch
VCU School of the Arts
Depillars Building
1000 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23284
For more information contact Kathleen Kennedy, kennedykw@longwood.edu or visit https://www.radicaljewelrymakeover.org/luoduvcu