Jim McDowell, known to many simply as “the Black Potter,” is a ceramicist who specializes in stoneware face jugs. Tommy Gartman “I can talk to you, but I talk much better at the wheel.” Jim McDowell ...

Faces are fascinating. As infants, we are drawn like magnets to the faces of others. As we get older, we turn periodically to our own reflection in the mirror as a barometer of the passage of time.