Anne Shattuck | Also Known As: Anne Shattuck Bailey

Coille Hooven began her career making functional porcelain vessel forms, particularly teapots that gradually became less functional as she added hand built animal sculptures to thrown pieces. Hooven?s work ranges from whimsical functional pieces glazed with blue stains and clear overglaze to small-scale, stark white sculptures commenting in both literal and figurative ways on women?s issues and relationships.

Hooven established her studio in Berkeley, California in 1970. The California Funk movement was in full swing, she had close with Peter Voulkos, who let her fire pieces in his kiln, and Robert Arneson, who juried her work in shows.

In 1996 she founded Hooven & Hooven with her daughter, Molly. Together they produced an extensive line of porcelain ornaments using a press mold technique developed by Coille. These were sold in shops around the country. In 2004 Coille left the business to focus on her sculptural work.

Hooven studied with David Shaner at The University of Illinois.