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Jim McDowell at his wheel. Photo by Donna Campbell<\/p><\/div>\n

By Louise Glickman<\/p>\n

Jim McDowell, who creates under the name \u201cThe Black Potter,\u201d is best known for his spiritually guided, impactful face jugs, but he also creates functional pottery. In a recent interview for the Artsville Podcast, McDowell talks about his work. \u201cYou can\u2019t just do art for art\u2019s sake,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have to have emotion. You have to have a story behind it. Otherwise, why are you doing it?\u201d<\/p>\n

McDowell explains that face jugs are historically linked to African American enslaved communities in the US. Most of the artists\u2019 names are missing, and there is mystery around the jugs because of gaps in recorded history. McDowell learned that the jugs were used to tell the stories of ancestors and their spirituals, ward off evil and mark graves, as the enslaved weren\u2019t allowed tombstones.<\/p>\n

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I Been Scorned and I Been Buked face jug set. Jim McDowell, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

Jim has his ancestors in his ear\u2014and guiding his hands\u2014and has made it his responsibility to tell their stories and share this erased Black history. \u201cMy ancestors will not let me rest,\u201d he says. \u201cSometimes at night I wake up and I have to get out of bed and write down what they told me, so I don\u2019t forget. I create the jugs because I have to do it. The stories need to be told.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every face jug has an inscription on the back in honor of an enslaved man named David Drake (\u201cDave\u201d) from an Edgefield, SC plantation. Drake wrote on his jugs and signed his name. McDowell\u2019s inscriptions honor others, as well. \u201cMy homage combines my tribute to David Drake, a literate and bold enslaved man; my own ancestor Evangeline, my four-times-great aunt who was an enslaved potter in Jamaica and made face jugs; and all who suffered and were oppressed during the period of slavery,\u201d says the artist.<\/p>\n

Creating the jugs takes about a week\u2014\u201cplus 40 years,\u201d McDowell jokes\u2014and his process is emotionally charged. He didn\u2019t always put his own emotion into the jugs, until an impactful moment when he began to wonder why enslaved people were beaten. \u201cYou know they didn\u2019t do anything,\u201d says McDowell. \u201cThey just beat \u2018em because they wanted to. So I got a clothes hanger and I opened it up and I beat that jug. I hit it and I just beat it. And it made me cry. It just hurt me.\u201d That pain, overwhelming and unguarded, resulted in molded anguish and an exceptional work of art.<\/p>\n

McDowell\u2019s face jugs will be on display along with the work of several other artists in the exhibition A Walk in the Woods, opening Friday, August 5, at Artsville Collective at Marquee Asheville. For more information, contact Louise Glickman at lsglickman@gmail.com<\/a> or 828.273.8783.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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