The gallery proposes to include 3 pieces from Jan Wade’s ongoing Memory Jugs, which she was inspired to make after seeing an archival photograph of memory jugs placed on Slave cemeteries in the American South. These funerary vessels were traditionally adorned with fragments—broken china, glass shards—and items beloved by the departed. Unlike historical memory jugs, Wade’s pieces incorporate text as well as imagery in addition to found objects, rooted in the oral traditions of her African Methodist church.