Facing History: Lessons from the Potter’s Wheel Jim McDowell, known to many simply as “the Black Potter,” is a ceramicist who specializes in stoneware face jugs.

The jug with a face is headed to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a rare artifact crafted in South Carolina by some of the last enslaved Africans brought to America. Only about three dozen ...

Emblazoned with features both grotesque and enigmatic, face jugs are a style of folk pottery primarily concentrated in Georgia and the Carolinas. Though these vessels have ties to many cultures ...

Jim McDowell, who calls himself ‘the Black Potter’ – and features in the Wallpaper* USA 300 – has spent much of his 35-year-long career making face jugs, a form introduced by enslaved people of ...

Chopticon High School sophomore Casey Johnson works on his face jug during an AP art class. In the background is senior Luke Anderson, left, and senior Kaylin Hill, who are each working on 3D ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...

Boston police say they arrested nine people during Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston and will be issuing summons to four others. Out of the 13 people facing charges, police ...

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the ...

His most expensive and popular items became the grotesque face jugs — with the teeth made of fragments of broken plates. Some face jugs are two-sided and, rarely, four-sided.

Face jugs both with credits that read “ (Potter once known) Face jug, about 1850-80” in the “Hear Me Now" exhibition on display at the MFA. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...