Jim McDowell
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BIO
Potter Jim McDowell, a studio potter/teacher for over thirty-five years, specializes in creating unique face jugs and folk art representative of his family history and African-American background as it relates to slavery in America. In 2016, Jim McDowell’s face jugs were represented by the Calvin-Morris Gallery in New York City, and introduced to the 2016 NYC Outsider Art Fair. His work has been displayed in art centers and museums across the country and in Europe, among them Cubitt Gallery, London, England; 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles; Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS; others.
He’s also been a featured potter in several independent films, on the DIY television network, and on PBS’s History Detectives. He’s the recipient of an Andy Warhol Museum Grant and awards from the Heinz Foundation. He’s taught at the Chautauqua Institution, the Winterthur Museum, and Warren Wilson College, among others, and has presented programs at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, and Touchstone Center for the Arts in Pennsylvania. Jim McDowell’s teaching venues have included art centers and schools from elementary grades through college, summer community programs, major corporations, and art residencies under the auspices of Southern Alleghenies Museum of the Arts in Pennsylvania. While he earned an Associate of Art degree from Mt. Aloyisius College, he is essentially self-taught as a ceramicist, fine tuning his art over the years through workshops and under the mentorship of several world class potters. Jim McDowell lives in Weaverville, NC. and works out of Reems Creek Pottery Studio there.
