What is the Rejewelry Competition?
With the Rejewlery Competition, we want to invite newcomers into our RJM community and welcome back past participants to utilize the circular supply chain of materials. During our frequent RJM Installments we collect donations of broken, unwanted, or out-of-date jewelry and with this competition we redistribute it into the hands of makers.
This competition is a creative challenge for those looking to engage in the tangible redistribution of already-mined persistent raw materials full of creative potential!
Apply to our next Call for Entry and join our mission, in service of shifting our collective relationship to mining practices in the jewelry industry!
Olivia SHih, Rejewelry 2023
What’s Happening?
Learn more about our current call for entry and our past Rejewelry projects.
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Joshua Kosker, Rejewelry 2023
How it Works
Jewelry makers from around the world are encouraged to apply to the current call for entry.
The juror-selected applicants can then purchase RJM donation materials through a private RJM Shop to create a suite of jewelry that will exhibited.
Materials available in the shop include a sweeping range from fine materials (gold, silver, gemstones) to costume jewelry (plastics, pot metal, wood, rubber, etc.).
The cohort has a specific amount of time to create a collection of work which are then then exhibited and available for purchase in person and in the online RJM Shop.
Meet our Rejewerly Coordinator
Sarah “Spee” Parker
Sarah “Spee” Parker is a Richmond-based sculptor and jeweler. She received her MFA from the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Sarah’s sculptures, installations and jewelry focus heavily on americana, punk, DIY, anti-containment, and questioning authorship through the lens of craft. Spee is part of the Radical Jewelry Makeover Artist Project. She was a 2022 Post-Master’s Teaching Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University. She was a recipient of the Baltimore Jewelry Center Emerging Artist Residency. She has exhibited regionally and has been a member to several DIY exhibition spaces in both Boone, North Carolina as well as Richmond, VA.
Spee is also a participant in the RJM Artist Project.
See her RJM Artist Project work here
