Jewelry That Makes You Think.
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INTERVIEW
Teresa Faris on Advocacy and Resistance
By matt lambert

"When introducing students to metal work and jewelry, I start by talking about and showing contemporary and historical indigenous work alongside Eurocentric work. When teaching technique and vocabulary, I give examples of indigenous words along with the Euro word used for the same technique. I inherently teach from my personal perspective and spend much time talking about water, land, mining, and resources. Students are expected to defend material choice and conceptual origin. The most challenging thing to 'teach' to non-BIPOC students is the idea that not all things in the world exist for their use or appropriation/exploitation."

Caption: Teresa Faris, CWaB: Lien #18, sterling silver, wood altered by a bird, reclaimed Comfy Perch (trademark), 64 x 152 x 32 mm, photo courtesy of the artist. Made in prayer for MMIWG2S (5,000 dishes and cuts)
AJF Live
Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 12 p.m. EST
 
Join us as we spend time with RJM and their current projects in Brazil and Boston!

Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM) is an international traveling community jewelry project that mines and recycles, drawing attention to the creativity and skills of local jewelry designers. It reveals the stories behind our personal collections and encourages reconsideration of our habits of consumption. It brings together volunteer miners—people who dig out and donate their old jewelry—with volunteer jewelers and students, who work together as refiners and designers.

The Brazil project is taking place at the Design School of the State University of Minas Gerais. This project is in the beginning stages. We’ll talk to professor and curator Adriano Mol to learn how he and his students are approaching this project.
 
Then we’ll see work from the joint exhibition between Massachusetts College of Art and Design, North Bennet Street School, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. RJM sourced the jewelry of New England. With materials in hand, Emily Cobb, Tanya Crane, Sarah Turner, Ann Cahoon, and their students, along with other professionals, collaborated on this semester-long project. They collected, sorted, and remade donations from the community in order to revive old pieces into new creative works and offer an informed and creative alternative to traditional mining practices and jewelry production.

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