Susie Ganch, associate professor of metals, was recently awarded a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman and The New York Foundation for the Arts to support Radical Jewelry Makeover: Lending Library (RJM-LL). 
RJM-LL is part of Radical Jewelry Makeover, Ethical Metalsmiths’ international traveling community mining project that links recycling and reuse with the creation of innovative jewelry. The lending library aims to shift audience habits away from over-consumptive exclusive private ownership towards (re)investment in shared communal jewelry through easier and more equitable access to sustainable ecosystems of reuse. RJM-LL will launch with an exhibition opening in Fall 2026, presented in partnership with NYC’s Museum of Arts and Design.
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $20,000 to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists from the United States and U.S. territories. This year, a total of $521,125 in grant funding was awarded to 29 projects selected from 1,004 applications. Projects focus on environmental issues and advocacy in California, Guam, Hawai’i, Louisiana, Maine, México, New York, Nigeria, Senegal, South Korea, Utah, and more.