tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92113919836705375252024-03-13T17:09:50.694-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN ICONARTELAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN ICONARTE: artist of found-object assemblage altars, home altars, memento mori altar installations, Mexican Día de los Muertos ofrendas, folk art memory jugs; black and white Madonna drawings; color digital photography of Hispanic Catholic cemeteries and graveyards, churches, roadside shrines, and sanctuaries.LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-51148831663514566482023-07-03T11:30:00.003-06:002023-07-05T16:10:24.004-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN'S MEMORY JUGS BOOK PDF: Memory jugs, memory jars, memory vessels, and memoryware instructions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN'S <i><span style="color: #990000;">MEMORY JUGS BOOK PDF</span></i></span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">: <b>Images, Instructions, and Theories</b></span> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">is a<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">complete resource on how to make traditional folk art memory jugs. </span>Laurie's <i><b>"workshop in a book"</b></i> provides her personal <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">instructions <span style="font-family: inherit;">for<span style="font-family: inherit;"> creating</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span>memory jugs, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">memory jars, memory bottles, </span>memory vases, memoryware, pique assiette, and other memory vessels.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="color: #990000;">MEMORY JUGS BOOK</span> </b></i>discusses the scholarly theories behind this enigmatic folk craft tradition. Memory jugs are believed to originate from historic Southern African-American funeral customs, as well as Victorian-era mourning practices. Historians often categorize memory jugs as American Outsider Art. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Laurie began creating her intricate memory jugs after her mother passed away in 2001. Her book contains photos of her jugs commemorating her ancestors, as well as antique memory jugs she has compiled from museum and gallery websites, auction houses, and private collectors. Found-object assemblage artists, mosaic artists, and art teachers have benefitted from Laurie's extensive book.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">HOW TO ORDER LAURIE'S</span> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">MEMORY JUGS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> BOOK <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PDF</span>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></i></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>First, </b>e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>mail Laurie to order her book:<b> <a href="mailto:lauriebethzuckerman@gmail.com">lauriebethzuckerman@gmail.com</a></b><b> </b></p><p><b>Second, </b>Laurie will email you a PayPal Request for Money for $25.</p><p></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Third, <span style="font-weight: normal;">Laurie</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">email you the Dropbox link to her 255-page book pdf. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span color="unset" style="-moz-appearance: unset; 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V<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">isit Laurie's art portfolio website at: </span></span></span></span><a href="http://lauriezuckerman.com/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">lauriezuckerman.com</span></span></span></span></b></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Sample pages from Laurie's Memory Jugs Book</i>:</div><div class="post-body entry-content"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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"When I made that memory jug... I received a kind comment from Laurie Beth Zuckerman... It was a pleasant surprise as I instantly recognized Laurie's name from my initial discovery of these fantastic folk art objects. I'd even put together a little sheet of her jugs, which I printed out and it sits just above my Mac. She makes beautiful memory jugs, do check them out. Anyway, it put Laurie back on my radar and I saw she had a book available to buy on her blog, $20, so I did..... and it's FANTASTIC!! I highly recommend buying a copy. Not only is there a great selection of images, jugs both historical and those made by Laurie herself, but there's also a wealth of information from the history of these jugs to how to make your very own (mine was a rather scattershot approach in comparison!!) Here are just a few examples of what you will find if you wisely buy a copy. Laurie kindly gave me permission to use some of her images on here. Beautiful aren't they? I'm looking forward to making my next one now!" Garrett Life Blog <br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">"Your wonderful book arrived today, and I have stayed up 'til 2:30AM reading it! (I only meant to take a quick look, but couldn't stop!) What a great resource! You must have worked hard to assemble all this information, instructions, and great photos of so many kinds of memory jugs, and it was well written too! I'm off to bed now, but I will be coming back to read and re-read."</div>
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"I just wanted to thank you for the book. I've been studying it for hours. You are a very generous artist. It is full of great information with thorough instructions that will help me develop my own Memory pieces. The photos of vintage and contemporary work are a treasure. Your pieces are spectacular. Rich design and so full of depth and meaning."</div>
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"Thank you so much for the book. I really enjoyed it and was very inspired by the examples. I found it full of great information, from the interesting ideas on history, to the how to section and list of traditional objects. I was mostly excited by the lovely photos, I haven't been able to find many examples of old jugs so they are great reference material for me and I liked how you categorized them. I will recommend the book on my site to anyone interested in making a jug or wanting more information on them."</div>
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"I love love love your book!!! Thank you so much. Very inspirational and thank you for the instructions. I have not gotten started yet but am looking forward to starting soon. I can see that preplanning is a good idea. I have looked at memory jugs for years and wondered how on earth they were made. I knew it had to be pretty simple materials as they didn't have all the fancy epoxies that we have today. Your book really helped clear up the mystery. Your memory jugs are fabulous!!!"</div>
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"Received your CD book in the mail. Love it! Such a wonderful collection of photos of memory jugs, including our inspiration piece that we saw on the Antiques Roadshow a few years ago, "The Thing"! So neat to see a picture of it in your book! We were so ready to start our project, that we finished it in one evening. The pieces had been sitting on the kitchen table for two weeks! We are happy with the final results."</div>
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"I got your book/CD in the mail and can't take my eyes off the screen. What a terrific job you did with this book and how generous you are to share all of those tips. I cannot WAIT to get to the store and buy the supplies and start exploring. I had no idea that there were others out there who shared my passion, my fascination with memory jugs…and more."</div>
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"Received your CD and I really loved it. Wow, what beautiful imagery and I enjoyed the history and deeper meaning of these vessels. I thoroughly enjoyed viewing not only the imagery of the Memory Jug but getting a deeper understanding of the symbolism and the creative process in regards to making them. It was very inspiring to me."</div>
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"Wow. I just discovered your incredible art and ordered your CD book. I cannot WAIT to get it. I've been making mosaic structures for years, but have been frustrated with my inability to find a putty, as was used years ago in making memory jars. I hope you have the answer in your book. Can't wait to see more of your work, too!"<br />
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"I just got my CD from Laurie Zuckerman. It's a fabulous book that gives the history and shows all the different types of jugs, vases, bowls, that people have covered with trinkets of their lives. Laurie is a fabulous artist. Check out her altars and memory jugs. If you love folk art or Mexican art like me, you'll love her art."</div>
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"I watched—read LOL your CD last night and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it. It is a very unique and informative way to present the memory jugs and its relations. I can’t wait to share it with my friends. Your hard work and love for the art form shows in the presentation. It was well worth the $20."</div>
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"I love the CD!! I just got home from vacation and have piles of laundry and other unpacking to do, but…had to pop in CD…and couldn't stop!! It's very inspiring and informative. Several points you made hadn't occurred to me. It was well worth the selling price. I am sure I will refer to it over and over."<br />
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"I wanted to tell you how much I love the memory jug book. These objects have always moved me somehow and to see such an array is just unbelievably compelling. I have to admit, I love yours the best! ALL of your pieces are somehow so haunting and complex and memorable. Thanks for such a treat!" </div>
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"I finally got to check out the CD. I am VERY happy with it. All the wonderful photos of different types of memory art. My favorite in the book is the one you did in memory of your father. Unbelieveably beautiful. I now can't wait to get started on my first one. Your book helped so much." <br />
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"I am just overwhelmed by the Memory Jars CD. It is the most comprehensive and inclusive work on them that I have ever encountered. I am so grateful to have found your website, and thrilled to have ordered the CD."</div>
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"Fantastic book, I really appreciate how generous you are in sharing
your experience with memory jugs and in depth technique. Looking forward
to putting into practice what I've learned from you."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">"I received the CD yesterday and watched it through with great interest (avid, I should say). I am very impressed by your scholarship, your collections, and–of course–the memory jugs themselves." </div>
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"I got your CD in the mail this week and have spent some time today looking it over. It's a wonderful art history book. The history is so interesting and important to know before embarking on a project."<br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.42857;">I had left to visit in New Mexico. The old adobe church is a lovely structure, and looked festive for the holiday. </span>It is one of the two oldest surviving
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What fascinated me were the two Virgin Mary statues that were cloaked in miniature cloth shawls. I had never seen this done before, and it lent a uniquely Native American quality to these lovely old Catholic statues. The church also displays several other plaster saints, a creche, and and tasteful Christmas decorations.<br />
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The Cañon Pintado National Historic District is where I have photographed these petroglyphs and pictographs. I first visited this site in May 2010. The canyon has been occupied by people for 11,000 years. Most of the rock art is from the Fremont Culture, who lived in the canyon from approximately 200 BC to 1300 AD, and the Ute Indians, who lived in the area from approximately AD 1300 until the 1880s. The horse image created by the Ute Indians is the newest rock art drawing. </div>
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How many times have I visited the Santuario de Chimayó in northern New Mexico? I assumed that this was the most historic district since I began visiting in the early 90s. I thought I had photographed everything about this world famous Hispanic region, but the most significant area was actually just down the road between the Santuario and the High Road to Taos. Apparently I hadn't done my research well over the years. My husband and I have stayed multiple times in local Bed and Breakfast Inns, and no one ever clued us in. We had been passing that little right-hand turn more times than I would want to count. <br />
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Last August, while I was wandering around in my car hunting for the Chimayó Museum, I stumbled upon the nearly abandoned Plaza de San Buenaventura de Chimayó, known as the Plaza del Cerro, the oldest intact Spanish Plaza in the United States. Begun in the 1700s, this 1.6 acre fortified plaza was built to protect Spaniards from raids by the Apache, Comanche, Navajo, and Ute Indian tribes. I walked the old plaza lanes lined with the crumbling adobe walls of rundown homes, a post office, a general store, and the tiny chapel, known as the Oratorio. It seemed so sad that the plaza was overgrown with weeds. Only a handful of residents still live on the plaza, and one building even offers lodging, if it is still open this year.<br />
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Allow me to tour you through this private Oratorio with my own cellphone photos taken last August 2018. This chapel was built around 1830. The wooden altar (reredo) is thought to be painted by José Rafael Aragón, the New Mexican Santero whose altar panels are the distinguishing feature of the world-renowned Santuario de Chimayó, in the neighboring community of Potrero. The inside walls are covered in a mud gypsum mixture known as yeso. It was recently restored by the Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association, which was cofounded by Don Usner, local writer, photographer, who grew up in the area and established the wonderful Chimayó Museum. I believe he is the man who invited us to join his tour of the Oratorio and Plaza. Ask for him at the museum if you should visit there, as the chapel is locked.<br />
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A little place I know: Chimayó’s Plaza del Cerro<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Laurie Beth Zuckerman's <span style="font-family: inherit;">drawing, Madre Dolorosa: Spanish Veil,</span> was selected for the juried LATINO EXPRESSIONS exhibition at the Lincoln Center this winter in Fort Collins, Colorado. Latino artists <span style="font-family: inherit;">from <span style="font-family: inherit;">Colorado included:</span></span> Francisco
Castro, Manuel Cordero, Arturo Garcia, Ismael Lozano, Alejandra Lujan, Silvia Montero, Tony Ortega, Daniel Salazar, Carlos Santistevan, Frank
Zamora, and guest awards juror Carlos Fresquez. I was most honored to have one of my new drawings exhibited alongside of these well-known artists, santeros, and arts educators from Denver, Colorado.</span></span> </div>
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Artist Laurie Beth Zuckerman was invited by <a href="http://www.artworksloveland.org/index.php/events" target="_blank">Artworks Loveland</a> to exhibit her drawings in their Ancestors and Heritage: Resonations of Día de Los Muertos exhibition, which opened November 13 in Northern Colorado. Three of my 22"x30" graphite pencil drawings from the "Madre Dolorosa: Spanish Veil" series were on exhibit in the south gallery through December 4.</div>
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The exhibition banner hanging on the outside of Artworks Loveland, announcement promotions, and gallery website featured one of my Spanish Veil drawings. </div>
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"Laurie Beth Zuckerman's intricate graphite drawings on paper describe her treasured cast-iron Madonna, drawn from the still-life. Laurie drawings seek to capture the solemn grief of La Madre Dolorosa, drawn from her
antique cast-iron statue, which is the Mother of Sorrows figurehead of
her altar installation, “Madre Dolorosa: The Spanish Lady.” The Catholic
mourning veil references the 1918 influenza pandemic, commonly called "The
Spanish Lady." Laurie’s grandmother, Sarah Zuckerman lost her
six-year-old daughter Elizabeth to this disease, went mad with despair,
abandoned her husband and sons for two years, and never again spoke of her
little girl. Laurie’s father George Zuckerman had no memories of his sister, but
did recall the horrific wailing of his mother. Laurie’s middle name,
Beth, is an homage to Elizabeth."</div>
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Last fall I featured this Madonna bust in my altar installation, Madre Dolorosa: The Spanish Lady, at my Memory: Loss and Found exhibit at the Boulder Dairy Center for the Arts. She was also the figurehead of my earlier Madre Dolorosa installation at the Longmont Museum and Cultural Center honoring my grandmother, Sarah Melnick Zuckerman.</div>
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The Ancestors and Heritage exhibition included works by 14 artists who each have private studios at Artworks Loveland exciting new complex of workspaces and galleries in Historic Downtown Loveland.</div>
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-22892439788933766682015-10-16T19:23:00.001-06:002018-05-23T16:41:18.555-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN ALTAR IN STORYTELLERS DIA DE LOS MUERTOS EXHIBITION at Lola's Fresh Patina Gallery, Loveland, Colorado 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman's completed installation of her "The Girl I Left Behind" dollhouse altar at Lola's Fresh Patina Gallery, Loveland, Colorado 2015, for their "Storytellers" Day of the Dead exhibit.<br />
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<span style="color: #333233; font-family: inherit;">[</span><span style="color: #333233; font-family: inherit;">Laurie Beth Zuckerman was interviewed by reporter, Jessica Benes at </span><span style="color: #5278ae;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LolasFreshPatina">Lola's Fresh Patina in Loveland</a>. </span><span style="color: #333233; font-family: inherit;">This post is excerpted from Benes' Longmont Times-Call and Loveland Reporter-Herald article </span><span style="color: #333233; font-family: inherit;">for Arts/Entertainment Spotlight</span><span style="color: #333233; font-family: inherit;">, October 15, 2015.</span><span style="color: #333233; font-family: inherit;">]</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333233; font-family: inherit;">Laurie Zuckerman tucks a black Victorian shawl around the dark wood of the altar. She drapes rosary beads so that they lie in front, a wooden cross just touching the base of the altar. </span><span style="color: #333233; font-family: inherit;">Zuckerman has been designing altars since her mother was stricken with ovarian cancer about 1999.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"It was right after my dad passed away, and once I learned she had ovarian cancer, I knew she wasn't going to make it most likely," Zuckerman said recently while designing the altar at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LolasFreshPatina"><span style="color: #5278ae;">Lola's Fresh Patina in Loveland</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After her mother got sick, Zuckerman said, she started collecting old Victorian tintypes, particularly of children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"I knew I was going to lose my mother and it felt like I was losing my childhood," the Fort Collins resident said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Zuckerman was attracted to how angelic and innocent they were and wondered what happened to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"There's something nostalgic about all these Victorian photographs. Those are some of the first studio photographs that were made," Zuckerman said. "I want to give a sense that these are sort of lost children. Maybe they lost their mother like I was going to lose mine."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333233;">"It just helped me to soothe the little girl in me that was about to be an orphan," she said. The "dollhouse" series of altars she started with after her mother's death in 2001 has expanded into larger altars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"I knew I was going to miss her before she was even gone and then I missed her so much. I didn't have anyone to nurture me anymore, so I kind of nurtured myself by making these altars," Zuckerman said.</span></div>
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"The Girl I Left Behind," from my series of “dollhouse” altars, showcases Victorian photography and dolls, religious figurines, and miniature paraphernalia, displayed in stacked wooden boxes, shrouded in mourning shawls. They were begun in 2001 during the final months of my mother’s losing battle with ovarian cancer. In nervous anxious anticipation of becoming “orphaned,” I was drawn to collecting Victorian photographs of “angelic” girls. This altar houses cabinet cards, carte vistas, and tintypes of stoic young girls, each hardened “old souls."<br />
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Blanche Kleid Zuckerman died in June 2001 and the altar memorials began pouring out of me from grief and loneliness. First the dollhouses, then home altars, then memory jugs, and finally the room-size installations, all in honor of my mother. Fourteen years later, my mother is still the primary focus of my altar work, which expanded in scope to include other Russian-Jewish relatives who were mothers. The Mother of Sorrows–La Madre Dolorosa–is the overriding theme I continue to explore.<br />
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Support Local Culture is sponsored by Noosa Yogurt. Each week KRFC radio station in Fort Collins airs interviews with Northern Colorado artists. This week KRFC is airing Laurie Beth Zuckerman's interview with Michelle Venus, and tastefully edited by Ric Reed. You can listen to Laurie's October 2015 interview at this KRFC radio link:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>The Annual Contemporary Art Survey offers a thought-provoking and eclectic array of painting, sculpture, fiber art, photography, mixed media, and installations. The exhibition is meant to be a survey—an overview of contemporary art across the country. <span style="font-family: inherit;">34 artists from 15 states were chosen from more than 600 works of art by artists in 30 states, </span>including 7 from Fort Collins and Masonville<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The exhibit opened on Friday, August 28 with an excellent gallery lecture by Dean Sobel, and a packed artists' reception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The legendary exhibition designer, Jack Curfman, arranged this show and gave me a personal tour of his curating philosophy after I had completed installing my memory jug. I had been fortunate to work with Jack last year at the Global Village International Museum in Fort Collins on an exhibit of vintage Mexican Folk Art, where I created a large altar installation of antique Mexican dolls and saltillos. Jack assigned me a very nice space in the front area of the Lincoln Center Art Gallery for my memory jug. Below are exhibition photos from different vantage points in this beautiful glass-enclosed gallery run by Jeanne Shoaff.</span></div>
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-90450535429727984942014-12-05T19:45:00.000-07:002017-10-06T17:57:38.645-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN'S BLACK MADONNA ALTAR INSTALLATION at Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts during Día de los Muertos<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman's altar exhibition at the Boulder Dairy Center for the Arts was on display from October 15-November 4, 2014. Here are a few closeup photographs from my Black Madonna altar installation, Madre Dolorosa: The Spanish Lady. I dedicated this altar to my grandmother, Sara Melnik Zuckerman and her six-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Zuckerman, who died in the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918, in Brooklyn, New York. The entire altar is built from antique furniture, Victorian mourning apparel, vintage pottery from Mexico, and a multitude of other old objects collected in antique store, flea markets and thrift shops around the country.<br />
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman's shadowbox dollhouse altars were on display in the "Vivid Conversations" exhibition at the Historic Carnegie Building's Community Creative Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. This November 2014 show was curated by artist Lili Francuz, who invited ten local artists to be included. Each artist was given their own wall and I displayed several new altars.<br />
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My husband, Thomas Mathies, also exhibited his religious folk art crucifixes in this exhibition. Carved from tree roots and painted with traditional gesso and egg tempera, Tom's work looked spectacular in this historic building. Below are a few photos of his display.<br />
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-46965141974752450592014-10-20T19:41:00.002-06:002014-12-08T19:29:40.651-07:00ASSEMBLAGE ARTISTS LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN AND SUSAN WECHSLER'S EXHIBITION OF ALTARS, "MEMORY: LOSS AND FOUND" SHOWING AT THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, BOULDER, COLORADO, OCT 17-NOV 4, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Memory: Loss and Found altar installations<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Memory: Loss and Found installation<br />
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman's altar exhibition at The Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder is entitled, "Memory: Loss and Found." This is a joint exhibition with my dear friend, mosaic artist Susan Wechsler of Boulder County, Colorado. Susan and I collaborated in her Longmont studio last year, sharing each others personal techniques and artistic sensibilities with found-object assemblage. We have planned this exhibition since March 2013, each creating new works expressly for our theme and The Dairy Center venue. Our exhibition is unique and outstanding, and I am grateful to Susan for suggesting this joint venture. Few other artists are as obsessive and meticulous about their artwork as we are.</div>
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Susan and I define ourselves as Jewish altar makers. Our eclectic shrines and memorials reflect our own family traditions and life experiences, and are informed by diverse cultural heritages from around the world. We both honor memory in order to evoke spirituality in our work, share a mutual love of collecting and flea marketing, and incorporate vintage materials into our found-object assemblage shrines.<br />
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Our exhibition title, "Memory: Loss and Found" plays with grammar to make a point. Both of us have created works that reflect "losses" we have experienced, and to make a statement about what is "found" by examination of and reflection upon memory. Some observers may reflect that the found objects and personal items used in our works are imbued with the energy and spirit of those who once possessed these things. My altars are constructed primarily from antique Victorian mourning paraphernalia, Mexican black clay folk art from Oaxaca, and a host of vintage collectibles.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">I made these Madre Dolorosa altars and memory jugs in remembrance of my Russian-Jewish ancestors and their tragic life stories, which have colored my life with a somber gloom. This black cloud has hovered over me as long as I can remember. My altars are manifestations of these family legacies, told to me by my storytelling father, Hollywood screenwriter and novelist, George Zuckerman. My father used words meant for moving images or the printed page to tell his stories. I use historical objects in a physical manner to express my own take on these deeply personal stories. I aim for a visual shock and awe reaction from my viewers—I want people to feel my work in their gut.</span><br />
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My "Madre Dolorosa: The Spanish Lady" altar installation includes three individual altars, plus a rocking chair display. This suite honors the sadness my Grandmother Sarah Melnik Zuckerman, and her only daughter, my Great Aunt Elizabeth Zuckerman, who died at the age of six during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, aka "The Spanish Lady." Sarah lost her mind, fled home, and lived away for two years, abandoning her three sons, the youngest of whom was my two-year-old father. My father named me Beth, out of respect for his older sister, Elizabeth. It would have been too much for my Grandmother Sarah, if my parents had named me Elizabeth.</div>
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My "Madre Dolorosa" installation includes a suite of three memory jugs, two of which honor the massacre of nearly thirty Melnik/Zuckerman relatives during the Nazi invasion of Poland in July 1941. Their titles are "Behind the Eight Ball" and "The Bell Jar." The third memory jug, "Locked Away" honors the memories of her lost daughter that were locked in my grandmother's fragile mind, and remained secret from her four surviving sons. My teenage father did not know he had a sister until he discovered a trunk of Elizabeth's belongings in the attic.</div>
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My "Bella Donna" altar installation honors my first cousin, Donna Zuckerman and her new husband, Irving Stone, who died in a single car crash on their honeymoon to Canada. They were buried one week after their nuptials in Brooklyn, New York, 1973. I was not in attendance for either life-altering event, but my brother, Gregg Zuckerman was. I was living across the country in Eugene, Oregon. I had just graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, and arrived in Eugene just days before Donna and Irv passed away. My sense of hopefulness for life and happily ever after died the day my mother called to relay the devastating news. </div>
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All three of my altar installations and four memory jugs in this exhibit are a part of my Memento Mori series. Memento Mori is a Latin phrase for “be mindful of death" that can also be interpreted as “remember that you are mortal.” Memento Mori refers to the historic genre of artistic creations in European funereal art, cemetery tombstones, and architecture, and include the Mexican El Día de los Muertos imagery used on ofrenda altars. Our exhibit was scheduled to coincide with El Día de los Muertos, and will close after the holiday on November 4.<br />
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To see an earlier installation of my Madre Dolorosa Altar that I exhibited in 2012 at the Longmont Museum and Cultural Center in Colorado, <a href="http://lauriezuckerman.blogspot.com/2012/09/laurie-beth-zuckermans-dia-de-los.html" target="_blank">click on this blogpost.</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For more information about Laurie Zuckerman and Susan Wechsler's exhibition, please log onto <a href="https://tickets.thedairy.org/Online/exhibits" target="_blank">The Dairy Center for the Arts</a> for show times and dates. Please visit artist, Susan Wechsler at her website and blog: <a href="http://www.mosaicsbysusan.com/">http://www.mosaicsbysusan.com</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-34280771178115556132014-10-04T18:45:00.000-06:002014-10-04T18:55:17.863-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN EXHIBITS ANTIQUE MEXICAN CHINA POBLANA DOLL ALTAR AT GLOBAL VILLAGE MUSEUM OF ARTS IN CULTURE, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, OCT 3-JAN 24<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The MEXICO: Objects for Living, Objects for Life exhibition will be on display from October 3, 2014–January 24, 2015 at <a href="http://globalvillagemuseum.org/" target="_blank">The Global Village Museum of Arts and Culture</a> in Fort Collins. Laurie Beth Zuckerman's installation of antique Mexican China Poblana tourist dolls at this international folk art museum is representative of handmade costume dolls from the early to mid-1900s. Typical "mestizo campesino" munecas (dolls) were made by Mexican artisans as well as foreign makers and sold to tourists during the heyday of foreign tourism. These cloth and/or composition dolls displayed the most famous indigenous dresses of the predominant regions of Mexico. In the early 20th century, daughters of hacienda owners began to embroider colorful dresses for rodeo events, known as Charreadas. They called these dresses "China Poblanas." These dolls model these real-life costumes. I have collected these soulful dolls from flea markets for twenty-some years, as my altars provide a wonderful new home for these orphaned tourist dolls.</div>
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The legend of the China Poblana began around 1621. Spain had extended its provinces to the Orient with its base in Manila. Each year Spanish ships would bring treasures to Mexico. A young exotic Hindu princess from the Mughal Kingdom named Mirra was bought at the slave market in Manila. She had been taken prisoner by Portuguese pirates on the coast of India. She was then sold to a sea captain and his wife in Puebla by a fellow Spanish ship captain, and her name was changed to Catarina de San Juan after she was baptized. She wore a colorful silk sari across her face and became know as "La Chinita" or "the little Chinese girl." Catrina died in 1688 after living her life as a nun. Her tomb of the "China Poblana" is located in the Colegio de la Compania de Jesus church in Puebla, Mexico. </div>
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A good book for collectors to research more about China Poblana dolls is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mexican-Popular-Art-Clothing-Dolls/dp/0764328875" target="_blank">Mexican Popular Art: Clothing and Dolls</a>, by Wendy Scalzo, available at Amazon books. Most of the dolls in my altar collection are represented in this beautiful colorful book. They range from the 1930s to the 1950s.</div>
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-44310128904793651052014-07-28T17:56:00.002-06:002014-07-28T18:17:55.359-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN EXHIBITS NEW MEMORY JUGS AT FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF ART'S "ARTISTIC EYE ON HISTORY: FORT COLLINS 150", JULY-SEPT 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Laurie Beth Zuckerman completed three memory jugs for the <a href="http://www.ftcma.org/" target="_blank">Fort Collins Museum of Art</a>'s </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"Artistic Eye on History: Fort Collins 150" invitational exhibition, curated by Marianne Lorenz, former Executive Director of the FCMOA. This show honors Fort Collins 150th birthday. It opened July 24 with a private reception for members, sponsors, and all seventeen artists in the exhibit, and will be on display to the public until September 28, 2014. The </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">FCMOA's featured artists are: Amelia Caruso, Bob Coonts, Louise Cutler, Jennifer Davey, Monica Deming, Clint Eccher, Diane Edwards, Diane Findley, Wendy Franzen, Jennifer Ivanovic, Mary McCauley, Dolores Rowland, Ajean Ryan, Two Sisters Mosaic’s Jane Sullivan and Jean McBride, Eldon Ward, and myself.</span></span></div>
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Background information on Laurie Beth Zuckerman's three Memory Jugs at Fort Collins Museum of Art:<br />
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UP IN SMOKE Memory Jug<br />
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I worked my "Up in Smoke" Memory Jug into a found-object assemblage installation for this exhibition. Vintage souvenirs depicting Western-themed stereotypes of wrangling cowboys, warring Indians, and covered wagon trains, were applied to this antique stoneware whiskey jug. Lucky pennies, good luck horseshoes, charms, and keychains, tourist ashtrays, and other copper-plated memorabilia were gathered throughout Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming during years of flea marketing.<br />
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This memory jug honors my father's sixteen years in Hollywood as a dramatic screenwriter of psychological westerns, dark film noir flicks, and smoldering melodramas during the mid-40s and 50s. In the late 50s, George Zuckerman’s career in cinema went "up in smoke," due to a sea change in Hollywood toward family friendly comedies. He carried on his author's life as a Broadway playwright and novelist. George's best known novel, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-last-flapper-George-Zuckerman/dp/B0006BYZ0O" target="_blank">The Last Flapper</a>,</i> was based on his close friend, Zelda Fitzgerald, who died when the mental hospital where she was staying went "up in smoke" as she awaited electroshock therapy in a locked room.<br />
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CROSSING OVER THE RIVER STYX Memory Jug<br />
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Antique copper coins and brass war medals, all souvenirs of travels to faraway lands, are used to encase this enigmatic memory jug, made from an antique stoneware whiskey jug. According to ancient Greek mythology, relatives placed a coin in the mouth of the deceased to help pay their ferry toll across the River Styx. The compass I added points the way to the afterworld, and bells signal the dead's arrival.</div>
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HOME ON THE GRANGE Memory Jug<br />
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My Home on the Grange Memory Jug is a pun on Brewster Higley's 1873 poem “Home on the Range,” which served as a anthem to frontier life. My jug was constructed on an old dairy farm cream jug, and stands as a memorial to the pioneers who settled Fort Collins in the early mid-1800s. The homesteading act helped multiply the few farms and ranches already existing on the abandoned military fort in Old Town and the town was incorporated in 1873. Granges were established in Fort Collins around the same time, encouraging families to band together to promote the well-being of the community and agriculture. Fort Collins enjoyed favorable conditions for farming and livestock to flourish, and once the first railroad was completed 1877, these products were shipped out and consumer goods brought in. </div>
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com1United States37.160316546736745 -105.820312511.638282046736744 -147.1289065 62.682351046736741 -64.5117185tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-49758836096955528222014-06-23T12:25:00.000-06:002014-06-23T13:23:45.425-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN TEACHES MEMORY JUG INSTRUCTIONS WORKSHOP–FORT COLLINS, AUGUST 16-17, 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Saturday/Sunday 9-5 pm at the Art Lab in Old Town Fort Collins</div>
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman is offering a second MEMORY JUG WORKSHOP this summer in Fort Collins, Colorado. The workshop fee is $275, and a non-refundable deposit of $140 is required to secure your reservation. Each workshop is limited to eight participants. There are only a couple of spaces left. Participants are invited to a private wine and cheese party at Laurie's home on the evening of August 15.</div>
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During this two-day 16-hour course, I will guide each person in creating their own personal memory jug, inspired by the Black-American folk-art style of memory jug making. It is believed that they were created as a memorial to a deceased relatives and displayed relics of that person's life. Some were placed as grave markers in Southern African-American communities. They were popular handmade crafts during the Victorian era, and enjoyed a resurgence during the mid-twentieth century.</div>
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You will receive a CD copy of my <a href="http://lauriezuckerman.blogspot.com/2013/02/laurie-beth-zuckermans-memory-jugs-book.html" target="_blank">Memory Jugs: Image, Instructions and Theories Book</a> for the workshop (pictured above). You will collect hundreds of objects that reflect the lives of the family you chose to memorialize on your jug. Bring your own vintage jug, bottle, or vase to the workshop or order one from me before the workshop.</div>
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BACKGROUND: 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 art 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"–that I like to call Story Jugs.</div>
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-29545195080904457002014-06-22T19:31:00.000-06:002014-06-23T13:22:45.884-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN TEACHES MEMORY JUG WORKSHOP IN FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, June 14-15, 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="text-align: left;">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. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Each participant received a copy of Laurie's</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://lauriezuckerman.blogspot.com/2013/02/laurie-beth-zuckermans-memory-jugs-book.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Memory Jugs: Image, Instructions and Theories CD Book</a><span style="text-align: left;"> for the workshop, and was invited to Laurie's home for a private tour of her antique-filled home.</span><br />
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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.</div>
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman wishes you FELIZ NAVIDAD!! I just took a magical trip to San Miguel de Allende in Colonial Mexico, timed to enjoy the twinkling Christmas season with its exuberant religious festivals and processions. The only thing missing was the Baby Jesus in the mangers. Not to worry, there are plenty of different size baby Jesuses on sale at the Artesans Marketplace holiday stalls. Wish I could have stayed in San Miguel through Christmas Day to photograph all of the mangers celebrating the birth of Jesus. Below are my photos of miniature and life-size nativity scenes in San Miguel, known as Nacimientos.</div>
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Love and thanks to my dear <a href="http://www.corazon.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca Brooks</a> for sharing her favorite secrets of San Miguel de Allende with all of us on her <a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/come_away_with_us/2013/09/loving-.html" target="_blank">Loving Lupita Journey</a>, December 10-19, 2013. I loved every magic moment. Stay tuned for more of my adventures from our journey to this historical World Heritage city in Mexico.<br />
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On December 10, 2013, Laurie Beth Zuckerman will finally meet her artist friend, <a href="http://www.corazon.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca Brooks</a> in person. Over these past many years, our shared blog posts, facebook remarks, and personal emails have nurtured our relationship in cyberspace and deepened our mutual love and spiritual connection to Mexico and all things Mary. Finally we will come together in real space to share Rebecca's Loving Lupita tour of San Miguel de Allende. We arrive just in time to celebrate the festivals of La Virgen de Guadalupe. I just happen to share a birthday with the Guadalupe on December 12. </div>
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Rebecca has invited me to teach my Memory Nicho Altar workshop in conjunction with her folk art and church tour of the region. Eight of the ten women on the trip will work with me over the course of our ten-day journey to create their own interpretation of a Guadalupe shrine, using a variety of old folk art and painting techniques. I can't wait to meet everyone and begin!!!</div>
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Above is a photo of the Guadalupe I took in 2005 on my first trip to San Miguel de Allende. I hope to find many more sweet and inspiring images of the Mother of Mexico to share on my blog. Meanwhile, below is a tiled Guadalupe shrine I encountered in the municipal cemetery in Oaxaca, Mexico during the Guadalupe festival of 2009. Dried up Día de los Muertos flowers are still decorating the shrine.</div>
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman photographed these wildly colored and beautifully eclectic Guadalupe shrines in Oaxaca, Mexico during the festival of the Virgen de Guadalupe outside of the Guadalupe church. Each of these lifesize shrine displays were designed and painted by individual vendors. The chairs and donkeys are used as props for children and parents to pose with the Guadalupe and Juan Diego for professional photographs.<br />
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On December 10, I travel to San Miguel de Allende for the festival of the Virgen de Guadalupe. I hope to find and photograph similar shrines at the churches and marketplaces celebrating the Mother of Mexico.<br />
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman has created a new altar for the Longmont Museum and Cultural Center's 2013 El Día de los Muertos exhibition. This Day of the Dead altar is a memorial of Rose and Frank Francia, the matriarch and patriarch of the Francia/Zuckerman family. This altar was built inside of a mausoleum structure, designed by myself and the museum's exhibition staff who also built it. It is derivative of mausoleums in Colonial Mexico that I have photographed in Oaxaca's municipal cemetery.</div>
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This is the third year I have contributed both an altar installation and Mexican cemetery photography to the Longmont Museum's annual exhibition. This time I was invited by the museum to participate on the committee to design this show. The concept this year was to turn the main gallery into a Mexican cemetery, known in Spanish as El Panteon. For my altar and photographic contributions, I received a stipend and an honorarium, and was invited to give a public lecture and gallery walk on October 16, 2013.</div>
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The El Día de los Muertos exhibition is currently on display through November 10, 2013. The ever popular Family Day Celebration is held on November 2. Two thousand people are expected to participate on that day, which officially honors the Day of the Dead in cemeteries throughout Mexico and Hispanic-American communities. I have included a few photographs taken during the festival.</div>
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Below are photos of my Mausoleum Altar in context with the cemetery display created in the Longmont Museum's main gallery by the staff and volunteers.<br />
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com12Longmont, CO, USA40.1672068 -105.1019274999999940.0701363 -105.26328899999999 40.2642773 -104.94056599999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-5000150068928449272013-08-18T23:07:00.003-06:002013-08-19T09:40:27.730-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN PHOTOGRAPHS GUADALUPE AND VIRGIN MARY IN FORT COLLINS' HISTORIC CATHOLIC CHURCHES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman had often wondered what she might find in Fort Collins' two landmark Catholic churches. Assuming they could be nothing like the colonial churches she likes to photograph in Latin America, these two turn-of-the-century churches actually hold some surprising riches. </div>
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Today I am sharing scenes from the <a href="http://www.stjosephfc.org/" target="_blank">Saint Joseph Catholic Church</a>, constructed in 1900 from sandstone blocks quarried in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. I entered the church on a day when not a soul was in the main chapel or praying at the altar. I photographed it all, but prefer the simplicity of this side prayer chapel to the more modern main altar. I was impressed by the 19 gothic stain-glassed windows throughout the vaulted church, depicting the Divine Mysteries.</div>
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I have posted these sightings of Mary in conjunction with <a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2013/08/mornings-with-mary-siempre-abierta.html#comments" target="_blank">Rebecca Brooks' Mornings with Mary</a>. Please click on this link to view all of the wonderful words and photos at Rebecca's site.<br />
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Learn more about Rebecca's <a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2013/08/loving-lupita.html" target="_blank">Loving Lupita</a> journey to San Miguel de Allende. I will be joining Rebecca and teaching a <a href="http://lauriezuckerman.blogspot.com/2013/08/altarista-laurie-beth-zuckerman-teaches.html" target="_blank">Memory Nicho Altar</a> workshop during her December 10-19 tour of this historic colonial region of Mexico. Come away with us!</div>
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LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-51053853698061862092013-08-12T12:13:00.001-06:002013-08-19T09:41:44.842-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN PHOTOS OF HOLY FAMILY CHURCH, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This week I discovered two sweet concrete statues outside The Holy Family Catholic Church of Fort Collins, Colorado. One is the Holy Family, Mary, Joseph, and the boy Jesus. The other is the infamous Juan Diego, holding his cloak with the miraculous image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Sadly, the statue of the Guadalupe is now missing from the landscape, and the fountain was not running. (See the photo below from the <a href="http://www.holyfamilyftcollins.org/" target="_blank">church website</a> for reference.) I planned to photograph inside the church, but it was locked. I will have to visit one morning after Mass, and ask what happened to the Guadalupe.</div>
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Built in 1924, this historic Old Town church began serving Spanish-speaking Catholic sugarbeet workers at the Great Western Sugar plant. Their community, known as "Alta Vista" and "Spanish Colony," was founded in 1927. There is now the Museo de las Trés Colonias, dedicated to the history of these Hispanic communities. I will make a foray there the next time it is open. <a href="http://history.poudrelibraries.org/archive/timeline/1920.php" target="_blank">Fort Collins History Connection</a><br />
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<a href="http://forgottenfortcollins.com/?s=holy+family+church&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Go" target="_blank">Forgotten Fort Collins</a>'s website tells the story of Lee Martinez who helped build the church. His family came from Southern Colorado's Huerfano County in 1906. I am enjoying reading about his prominent role in the early days of Fort Collins history.<br />
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So...much more photography to come in my exploration of the Spanish-Catholic influences on this frontier town of Fort Collins.<br />
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Please stop by and visit <a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2013/08/mornings-with-mary-loving-lupita.html" target="_blank">Rebecca Brooks' Mornings with Mary</a>, as I have linked my post to her sharing.<br />
<br />LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-60955273291631361122013-08-11T11:06:00.004-06:002013-08-11T16:13:01.597-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN PHOTOGRAPHS THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE ALTARS IN MEXICO<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman invites you to accompany artist and host, <a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2013/08/loving-lupita.html" target="_blank">Rebecca Brooks</a> to a world of colorful altars and cemetery nichos in the land of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This adventure to Colonial Mexico is scheduled for December 10-19, 2013. Rebecca has invited me to teach a two-day <a href="http://lauriezuckerman.blogspot.com/2013/08/altarista-laurie-beth-zuckerman-teaches.html" target="_blank">Memory Nicho Workshop</a>, an option for all who join Rebecca's <a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2013/08/loving-lupita.html" target="_blank">Loving Lupita folk art tour</a>, highlighting this ancient December 12 festival of La Virgen de Guadalupe.<br />
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By sharing my photos of altars dedicated to La Virgen de Guadalupe, the archetypal saint of Mexico, I hope to inspire you to join Rebecca, and myself on this unique adventure.<br />
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PLEASE visit Rebecca Brooks blog for Sunday's "<a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2013/08/postcards-from-paradise-munecas-de-carton.html" target="_blank">Postcards from Paradise</a>"for a taste of what she imagines for her December tour of San Miguel de Allende.<br />
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This morning I am linking up with <a href="http://www.corazon.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca Brooks</a>' Mornings with Mary at her <a href="http://www.corazon.typepad.com/" target="_blank">recuerda mi corazon</a> website. I am sharing images of several Virgen de Guadalupe images that I photographed at two of the most popular shrines in Northern New Mexico. The first is El Sanctuario de Chimayo, built in 1813, and located north of Santa Fe along the High Road to Taos. The second site is El Sanctuario de Guadalupe Church, built in 1781, and located in the historic Guadalupe district of Santa Fe.<br />
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If Our Lady of Guadalupe is your passion, you may consider traveling to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with Rebecca, and me, on her Loving Lupita journey, December 10-19, 2013.LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05365699422878420984noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211391983670537525.post-38411743173353619632013-08-03T07:59:00.000-06:002013-08-12T14:18:54.500-06:00LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN TEACHES MEMORY NICHO ALTAR WORKSHOP IN SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, MEXICO WITH REBECCA BROOKS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Celebrate the December 12, 1531, miracle of La Virgen de Guadalupe in historic San Miguel de Allende this December 10-19, 2013. Discover what Our Lady of Guadalupe, the most beloved symbol of Mexico, represents for your personal life, with artist host, <a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/" target="_blank">Rebecca Brooks</a> on her <a href="http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2013/08/loving-lupita.html" target="_blank">LOVING LUPITA</a> magical tour of Guadalupe festivals, Christmas posadas, processions, folk artisans, and colonial churches.<br />
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Laurie Beth Zuckerman will lead an optional two-day Memory Nicho workshop that will enhance your exploration of La Lupita, and dovetail perfectly with Rebecca's exciting excursions.<br />
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Laurie will guide you in creating a wooden shadowbox shrine (in Spanish: nicho) to contain all the symbols that have touched your soul in Mexico, and express your adoration of La Lupita. As the focal figure of your nicho, you will make a reverse-glass painting of the Guadalupe, employing the Medieval style used for painting sacred icons. Laurie will provide all the templates you will need to create your version of a traditional or contemporary image of La Lupita.<br />
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Inspired by Laurie's traditional memory jug techniques in her popular <a href="http://lauriezuckerman.blogspot.com/2013/02/laurie-beth-zuckermans-memory-jugs-book.html" target="_blank">MEMORY JUGS BOOK</a>, you will embellish your wooden altar with found-object adornments scavenged in the marketplaces of San Miguel, and from your personal treasure trove at home. Using paints and gilding, the entire surface of your nicho will develop a richly-textured patina, to mimic the antique gilded altars we will visit in San Miguel's famed colonial churches.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Laurie Beth Zuckerman created this nicho shrine<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Vintage foil and reverse glass-painting of La Virgen de Guadalupe,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I found this vintage Mexican reverse glass and foil painting </span><br />
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AND, just to wet your appetite for all things Guadalupe and Mexican, here are just a few of Laurie's photos of the Guadalupe church festival altars in Oaxaca, Mexico.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Virgen de Guadalupe altar festival under construction by two altaristas <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Virgen de Guadalupe altar at the Nuestra Señora de las Nieves <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Virgen de Guadalupe altar festival in the Basilica church,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Virgen de Guadalupe altar festival in Teotitlan del Valle church,<br />
Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo by Laurie Zuckerman</td></tr>
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For much more information about this tour and to secure reservations, please contact Rebecca Brooks at her website: <a href="http://www.corazon.typepad.com/">http://www.corazon.typepad.com</a> or email her at: <span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:recuerda_mi_corazon@yahoo.com" style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'normal arial', sans-serif;">recuerda_mi_corazon</span><wbr style="font-family: 'normal arial', sans-serif;"></wbr><span style="font-family: 'normal arial', sans-serif;">@yahoo.com</span></a></span></div>
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For more information about this workshop, please comment on this post or contact Laurie Beth Zuckerman at this site. <a href="mailto:lauriebethzuckerman@gmail.com">lauriebethzuckerman@gmail.com</a><br />
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