Hailing from Cape Cod, Cowan is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and folk historian. Raised by a sculptor and a fisherman-glassblower, they have been working on the water and in production studios their whole life. Their work focuses on celebrating rural queerness and the preservation of traditional folk culture & music, with an emphasis on Cape maritime history. Cowan is a graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock with a double concentration in Ceramics and Archival & Museum Studies. Cowan also works as the Assistant Director at the Edward Gorey House and teaches wheel-throwing & surface decoration at community studios. When not working, they are usually either out on the water, reading in the woods, or in the middle of a Star Trek rewatch.