LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN TEACHES MEMORY JUG WORKSHOP IN FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, June 14-15, 2014

Memory Jug created by Pam Ratts-Cooper from Memphis, Tennessee
 in Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Memory Jug Workshop, June 2014

Memory Jug created by Pegg Ratts from Memphis, Tennessee
 in Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Memory Jug Workshop, June 2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman taught a June WEEKEND MEMORY JUG INSTRUCTIONS WORKSHOP this summer in Fort Collins, Colorado at the Art Lab. The workshop fee was $275. Each participant received a copy of Laurie's Memory Jugs: Image, Instructions and Theories CD Book for the workshop, and was invited to Laurie's home for a private tour of her antique-filled home.

Here are examples of two Memory Jugs created by two students in my workshop. Pam and Pegg happen to be identical twins. They lost their mother in the past year and decided to use her personal jewelry and antique collectibles to create two distinct Memory Jugs.

I have been teaching Memory Jug Workshops since 2006 and exhibiting my enigmatic memory vessels in art museums and galleries in Colorado. Images of my jugs have been published in several art books and magazines. I first began creating memory jugs in 2002, after my mother passed away from cancer. As a found-object assemblage altar maker, specializing in large-scale altar installations, I appreciated the intimate scale of memory jugs—miniature "altars-in-the-round." I refer to them as Story Jugs.