Special Feature

Folk Potter Jim Bozeman is one of those people described as seldom seen and hard to reach. Rumors abound, but he's fine at this writing and he gets around, plenty. Besides, it's all about the work and his pieces are scattered all over the country. To many collectors and others here in the southeast folk region, he can seem rather elusive. That's now due especially to the fact that he's back on the west coast, a long way from Edgefield, South Carolina, Brevard, NC, Athens, GA, and other spots around the Carolinas where he set up studio space in the last decade or so. After all it is his home territory. However, some of these places were more conducive to making pots, some not so much for various reasons. I suspect he'll put down roots in Oregon and stay quite some time. He's been there before and it suited him well.

The move westward should affect his work and output in a positive way. This web page has been established as a way to reach Jim Bozeman if other means are failing, and to post occasional news about his work and meanderings. If you need to get a message through to Jim Bozeman, you're welcome to drop me an email at letters@greenvillesouth.com and I'll forward your contact info to Jim. Meanwhile, try Jim's email address, idigclay@hotmail.com.

In September 2007, Bozeman loaded up his truck and moved back to Portland, Oregon, after having been in the Athens, Georgia area for several years. Here, a look at one of Bozeman's paintings as reproduced on the cover of the Athens alternative newspaper, Fagpole, August 18, 2007. If you're interested in a back issue of the newspaper, ask for Vol. 21, No. 31, issue date August 8, 2007. Contact Flagpole through their website www.flagpole.com.

I've known Jim since the mid 1970s when we were not long out of high school. We're frequently in telephone contact and I usually see Jim at Thanksgiving or Christmas when he's in Greenville (SC) to stay with his family.
---Joel Wilkinson

More to come.

--gs

Copyright 2007.