Anne Copeland is a member of several art quilt groups in Southern California and several national groups as well. She is director of Fiberarts Connection of Southern California, a 501 (c)(3) dedicated to providing professional development opportunities, education and assistance for emerging, economically disadvantaged, geographically underserved and physically challenged artists. Anne is a certified appraiser of quilted and other textiles, as well as a historian, lecturer, teacher, and published writer on many quilt-related topics. She has had quilts exhibited nationally and pieces of her work are published in I Remember Mama and the forthcoming book on Journal Quilts.