Mining the community's jewellery box - ABC Brisbane - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

This is such a great idea! All this week, students and jewellers are working together in a studio at the Queensland College of Art: soldering, riveting, hammering, sawing, melting and gluing their way through 18 kilograms of donated jewellery. It's all for a project known as the 'Radical Jewellery Makeover', the brainchild of the American not-for-profit organisation, Ethical Metalsmiths. "We came up with a project that involved the local community donating their old unwanted jewellery," explains Christina Miller, the Co-director of Ethical Metalsmiths. "[They donated it] to a project where students, who were learning jewellery-making for the first time, would be able to work with this jewellery as mined metals. "Instead of sourcing metals from a new mine, they were sourcing them from the mine that is the community's jewellery box," says Christina, who is also an Assistant Professor of Jewellery and Metalsmithing at Millersville University. Click on the link below for the rest of the story and photos Mining the community's jewellery box - ABC Brisbane - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Pin It