Cowan received her MFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and maintains her studio in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been exhibited in museums across the United States, Europe and China, including solo shows at San Francisco’s Museum of Arts and Craft (2014) and at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA (2017). Her work is included in the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (2014 Rakow Commission recipient), Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, and as a promised gift to the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY and the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA.