{"id":91818,"date":"2026-04-27T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=91818"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:14:03","slug":"art-with-character-face-jugs-shine-at-american-folk-art-framing-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/art-with-character-face-jugs-shine-at-american-folk-art-framing-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Art with Character: Face Jugs Shine at American Folk Art &#038; Framing in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Folk Art &amp; Framing presents a studio filled with personality this month as the 14th Annual Face Jug Show opens online Wednesday, May 6, at 11 a.m. and in the gallery on Thursday, May 7, at 11 a.m., with a reception from 5-8 p.m. during downtown Asheville\u2019s Mosaic ArtWalk &amp; Benefit. The exhibition runs through Wednesday, May 27.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_91820\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91820\" class=\"wp-image-91820\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-StacyLambert_CornSnakeMadness_SL280-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"491\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-91820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corn Snake Madness. Stacy Lambert, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This yearly show brings together a panoply of expressive jugs representing the cultures of potters and the history of the face jug making tradition. \u201cIn the Appalachian region, face jug folklore claims these vessels would use snakes, grimacing faces or devil horns to frighten children away from the alcohol that often would be stored inside,\u201d says gallery owner Julia Mills. \u201cThe roots of the tradition, however, run much deeper, derived from a practice that came to America with enslaved Africans. Placing a face vessel as a grave marker was meant to ward off evil spirits to allow the soul of the dead to peacefully transition to the next world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Potter Jim McDowell traces his lineage and his chosen craft back to his four times great-aunt Evangeline who was a slave potter in Jamaica. McDowell has been making pottery for more than 40 years and wasn\u2019t familiar with the Southern folk art tradition of face jug making when he began. \u201cIn Johnstown, PA, where I was living at the time,\u201d he says, \u201cI saw a student piece that was a face jug and thought I could make one of those, only with Black features.\u201d His work has since become part of permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>One of his newer pieces depicts notable Black Civil Rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who was a victim of a forced sterilization in Mississippi in 1961. McDowell says a friend noted the resemblance of his design to fertility dolls in Ghana. \u201cI had no idea,\u201d he says, \u201cbut I see how appropriate that design is now to represent Hamer. Many times my subconscious or maybe my muse or the ancestors take over and make connections I don\u2019t see until later.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_91826\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91826\" class=\"wp-image-91826\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2-810x810.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/American-Folk-Art-14thAnnualFaceJugShow_JoelHuntley-copy-2-1140x1140.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-91826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Huntley, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What distinguishes his jugs, he says, are Black features, tribal markings\u2014and cigars. \u201cMy cigar is a symbol of resistance, as few enslaved folks were allowed the use of tobacco,\u201d McDowell says. \u201cThe 12-year-old son of a slaveholder could smoke and be then considered a man. But a 90-year-old Black man was still called, \u2018boy.\u2019\u201d While his jugs do not represent spiritual connections, he says, \u201cthey embody the spirit of 400 years of slavery and the truth of where we are now. As a Black artist, I\u2019m always impressed by the ability of my ancestors to tell their stories through their work. I tell the story. I tell the history that has been erased, that\u2019s been kept out of the history books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joel Huntley has been making pots for 50 years and face jugs since 1987. \u201cMy English influence is represented by two Toby jugs in this show as well as two Green Man sconces,\u201d he says. Huntley says that the eyes, especially, draw people in. \u201cAt their best, face jugs invite the viewer into stories and emotions,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt is said that they can be self-portraits, too, of the potter. This is quite true in my work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional participating artists are Feliciano Abaurre, Steve Abee, Mike Ball, Carl Block, Walter Fleming, Michael Gates, Stephen Harrison, Wayne Hewell, Stacy Lambert, Brad Ledbetter, Vicki Miller, Ben J. North and Tim Whitten.<\/p>\n<p><em>American Folk Art &amp; Framing is located at 64 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/AmeriFolk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AmeriFolk.com<\/a> or call 828.281.2134.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Folk Art &#038; Framing presents a studio filled with personality this month as the 14th Annual Face Jug Show opens online Wednesday, May 6, at 11 a.m. and in the gallery on Thursday, May 7, at 11 a.m., with a reception from 5-8 p.m. during downtown Asheville\u2019s Mosaic ArtWalk &#038; Benefit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":91820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-galleries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art with Character: Face Jugs Shine at American Folk Art &amp; 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