Anna Więckowska-Kowalska graduated from the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland. She finished cultural studies and pedagogical studies at the University of Łódź and the Faculty of Textile Art of the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Łódź in 1986. Anna works as a pedagogue and therapist in the Tadeusz Makowski School of Fine Arts in Łódź. She has participated in many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including: honourable mention at the 15th International Triennial of Tapestry in the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź in 2016; the International Baltic Triennial of Miniature Textile in Gdynia, Poland in 2004, 2007, 2010 – Grand Prix, and 2013 – the City of Gdynia Award; distinction at the 10th Baltic Mini Textile in Gdynia in 2016; the International Biennial of Miniature Textile in Szombathely, Hungary in 1986, 1988, 1994, 1996, and 1998; the International Triennial of Miniature Textile in Szombathely in 2009, 2012, 2015; the Polish National Exhibition of Miniature Textile in Łódź in 1998, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013 – Prize for Best Miniature, and 2016 – nomination for the Prize for Best Miniature; the Polish National Exhibition of the Unique Textiles in Łódź in 1992, 2001, 2007, 2010, and 2013; the “Z krosna do Krosna” International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial in the Museum of Crafts in Krosno, Poland in 2006, 2008 – the AKAPI Foundation Award, 2010, 2012 and 2014; the 17th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea “filare il tempo” in Como, Italy in 2007; and the 4th International Textile Competition in Kyoto, Japan in 1994.