Books
“Contemporary Black American Ceramic Artists”
Chotsani Elaine Dean and donald a. clark
Published by Schiffer
Available for purchase here
“The Jagged Path: The African Diaspora in western North Carolina in Craft, Music and Dance”
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Media
Wallpaper Magazine
“A Kiln Of One’s Own”
JUL 6, 2023
PRODUCER: MICHAEL REYNOLDS
WRITER: ARUNA D’SOUZA
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ANDSCAPE Magazine
Potter Jim McDowell and the complicated history of ‘face jugs’
An art form brought to America by the enslaved is finally drawing wider recognition
By Paul Wachter|March 2, 2023
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Interview Magazine
FARAGO and TIWA Select Spotlight
Unsung Artists with “Everyday Rituals”
February 18, 2022 | By Interview
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Jim McDowell’s face jug, “A stumble is not a fall,” a two-sided mask jug, on exhibit at Farago Gallery in Los Angeles in conjunction with Frieze. Shown here with Alex Tieghi-Walker (standing) and Max Farago, gallerists.
WMagazine.com
“Preview the Best of Frieze LA Week 2022”
2.14.22 | Stephanie Eckardt
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Architectural Digest
“A Look Inside the Work of Alex Tieghi-Walker, the Creative Mind Behind Tiwa Select”
December 2021 |
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Ceramic face jugs by Jim McDowell.
Facing History: Lessons from the Potter’s Wheel
February 1, 2021 | Tommy Gartman
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Curbed Magazine FEB. 11, 2021
Meet Jim McDowell and His Face Jugs. The ceramicist keeps his ancestors’ traditions alive from his home studio in North Carolina.
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Asheville Made
Magazine celebrating local makers, Asheville, NC
“One Man’s Clay Is Another Man’s Medium Of Social Justice”
