EXPO ‘DESECHOS PRECIOSOS’ – Universidad Gestalt de Diseño, Xalapa, México – 3-12 Juin 2015

Mariana Acosta : Los espero! DESECHOS PRECIOSOS, una muestra de 19 de los mejores proyectos de mi clase de Joyería Contemporánea Sustentable .

Inauguracion Junio 03 2015 / 6-8pm. Lobby de la Universidad Gestalt de Diseño.

I am pleased to share with you the opening of PRECIOUS WASTE. A collection of 19 sustainable contemporary jewerly neck pieces from my class at Universidad Gestalt de Diseño.

June 3rd / 6PM in Xalapa, México.

I am very proud to share with you the launch of PRECIOUS WASTE an Online Exhibition containing all of my class projects. The physical exhibition will held a selection of 19 pieces from my teaching at Universidad Gestalt de Diseño but there are close to a 100 pieces that need to be seen and shared with the world!
Please help me share ! – Mariana Acosta

http://desechospreciosos.wix.com/macosta

Miguel Rodriguez – spring 2013 – collar hecho de tetrapack

Mariana Acosta -  from my class at Universidad Gestalt de Diseño.

2013-2015. Five years ago I had to abandon my dream of staying in the US after graduating from my MFA, just like many other international art students and friends who had to leave during 2008 recession. Only the though ones remained, gloriously if I may say, they honor the opportunity they were given every day. What to do with a degree that is barely know in México – contemporary jewelry – often mistaken for traditional designers jewelry?

Well, I decided to teach. It’s been four years since I started this life project, and I call it that because for me, informing the new generations about contemporary jewelry is a life mission. I work with waste materials. Why? Because they were all I had left as working materials after graduating from a very prestigious but also pricey school. So I decided to make lemonade with the lemons I had, or as I named my toilet paper cardboard rolls jewelry series « When Life Gives you Shit, Use it as Fertilizer « . As a result, three years later, I am gathering the outcome of this project with a physical & virtual exhibition. Thank you everyone who has handed me an opportunity to make this happen. Special thanks to Universidad Gestalt de Diseño in Xalapa, Ver. Mx for fostering an opportunity for contemporary jewelry to flourish in México.

 

FOR THE OTHER (FANTASTIC) JEWELS, see my post here : Sustainable jewelry at Universidad Gestalt de Diseño Xalapa (Mexico): BREATHTAKING !!

 

 

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