ORANGE BEACH, Ala. -- For the many collectors

of well-known Hamilton potter Jerry Brown, the Orange Beach Arts

Center has the ticket for you. A raffle ticket, that is.

OBAC’s nonprofit support group, Friends of the

Arts, is raffling a five-gallon two-faced jug at $2 per ticket

until March 11 when the winning ticket will be announced at the

Orange Beach Festival of Arts.

Brown’s work is part of the Second Annual

Craft in Alabama exhibit which opened Jan. 20 and runs through

March 16. A variety of his face jugs are on display from egg

separators (he reports Paula Dean uses one) to the Rebecca Jug.

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A ninth-generation potter, Jerry Brown of Hamilton, Ala., is the

recipient of the 1992 National Heritage Award from the National

Endowment for the Arts and the 2003 Alabama Folk Heritage

Award.

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Jerry Brown still digs his own clay at a one hundred year old clay

pit in Detroit, Ala., and has the only known mule-powered pug mill

still operating in the United States. Brown and his mule, Blue, mix

and grind the clay used to make his one-of-a-kind pieces of pottery

and his wife Sandra glazes and finishes the ware.

For more

information on the exhibit, call the Orange Beach Art Center at

251-981-2787.