Textile artist George-Ann Bowers has created artwork for exhibition and commission for more than 30 years. Her formal training includes early studies at the California College of Arts in Oakland, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts and Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts in Berkeley, California. Bowers exhibits her weavings regularly in venues throughout the United States as well as internationally, having shown work in England, Belgium, China, and Canada. She finds inspiration for her artwork during frequent adventures in the outdoors, and has completed artist residencies at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, Acadia National Park in Maine, Alaska’s Denali National Park, and the Grand Canyon. Bowers’ artwork has appeared in publications including Fiberarts magazine, the Surface Design Association Journal, and is included in the 2012 compendium Textiles: The Art of Mankind, by Mary Schoeser. Her work is represented in the collections of King County, Washington (Portable Artwork Collection); Home News Enterprises of Columbus, Indiana; the National Park Service in Arizona, Maine and Alaska; and in private collections.