Memory jugs

Laurie Beth Zuckerman Memory Jug Workshop June 8-9, 2013, Boulder, Colorado, Susan Wechsler Mosaics

LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN ICONARTE found-object assemblage art, home altars, altar installations, memory jugs, drawings.

Antique Folk Art Stoneware Mourning Memory Jug Minnesota Area 1900s

There are a variety of origin stories for memory jugs. Google-fu gets you information, but nothing definitive. One explanation is that memory jugs originated as African mourning vessels, a tactile and tangible link from this world to the next, placed at gravesides and adorned w

When I die fill my memory jug with things my mother loved. Leave out her tears, the shivering in the rain. That heart on the silver cross, keep it, the scrap she wrote my future name on, the ink footprints on my baptismal certificate. But not the bandage from my first […]

Create a memory teapot inspired by memory jugs as a celebration of the living. This teapot is encrusted with bits from everyday life.

Make a memory jug with trinkets that mean something to you. Attach them to a jug, vase or bottle with air-drying clay or an epoxy putty.

Did you think that altered art was the creation of hip young artists? Not so. Check out this memory jug I picked up last week. -An old cracked vessel was re-purposed into this wonderful bit of folk art. The exact origins of memory jugs are sketchy. Some believe that they were fist seen in Southern African American cemeteries. They were covered with mementos relevant to the life of the deceased and used as grave markers. Others believe that those wacky Victorians who loved scrapbooking, took…

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