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Biography: James Lawton is a ceramist who works with porcelain and earthenware to create vessels and wall based works. He is known for his forms that are drawn from the alphabet or his own handwriting. The images that appear on his pieces can range from furniture, domestic objects, and clothing to calligraphic marks and letters.
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Apprenticeships & Residencies: 1979

Artist-in-Residence, Arts Industry Program, Kohler Company, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Primary Work Experience: 1963
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1970

Instructor of Ceramics, Department Chairperson, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

1970—

Studio Potter, Berkeley, California

1976
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1979

Ceramics Instructor, East Bay Community Arts Project at Juvenile Hall, Alameda County, California

1996
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2005

Hooven & Hooven Porcelain Ornaments, Berkeley, California

1988
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1990

Ceramics Instructor, Laney College, Oakland, California

Other
Public Collections: Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, University, Alfred, New York
Arizona State University, Matthews Collection, Tempe, Arizona
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Henry Luce Center for American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Leslie Ceramic Collection, Berkeley, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Purdue University Museum, Lafayette, Indiana
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
Bibliography: "Affordable Art - Made in the East Bay." Berkeley Insider, II, no.10, (November 1995).
Axel, Jan and Karen McCready. Porcelain: Traditions & New Visions.
"Bay Area Potters and Artists." The Studio Potter 13, no. 1 (December 1984).
Bechtold, Jeroen. “Am Geburtsort der Teekanne.” Ausland Magazine, 1997.
Boyden, Frank. “Figurative Ceramics.” The Studio Potter 16, no.1.
Burstein, Joanne. "Coille McLaughlin Hooven.” American Ceramics 2, no. 1 (1983).
"Choices." The Studio Potter 20, no. 1, (December 1991).
"Christmas at the White House," Ladies Home Journal (December 1981).
Clark, Garth. The Eccentric Teapot. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1989.
Coille McLaughlin Hooven. Coille McLaughlin Hooven, Porcelain 1974 –2008. 2013.
Ferrin, Leslie. Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object. Madison, WI: Guild Publishing, 2000.
Herman, Lloyd. American Porcelain: New Expressions in an Ancient Art. Timber Press, 1981.
Lane, Peter. Studio Porcelain. Chilton Book Co., 1980.
Lark Books. 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2004.
Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
__________. "Porcelains by Coille." American Craft 42, no. 6 (December 1982).
MacNaughton, Mary Davis. Revolution in Clay, The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics. University of Washington Press, 1994.
Marvin Sweet. The Yixing Effect. Foreign Languages Press, 2006.
“Moving Forward: Archiving a Career.” National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, 34 (2013).
Nigrosh, Leon. “Erotica in Ceramic Art,” Ceramics Art and Perception, no. 38 (1996).
"Politics and Clay." The Studio Potter 29, no. 2 (June 2001).
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Website(s): www.coillehooven.com
Tags (related topics): Berkeley, California