Jobs

Employer: Kaufman's Department Store

Title: Graphic Designer

City: Pittsburg

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States

Employer: Freelance Jewelry Design

Title: Jewelry Designer

Country: United States

Notes: designed and sold Jewelry at home

Collaborators

Apprenticeships

No apprenticeships on record

Awards

Name: Kensingtonware Award, an Alcoa Susidiary

Description: awarded for product design of a table and chair set to a coffee server and a cigarette and match holder

Notes: received while enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology

Name: Woman of the Year, the State of Wisconsion

Exhibitions

Notable Projects

Education

Institution: Carnegie Institute of Technology

Degree: B.S. in Industrial Design

Start Date: January 01, 1932

Notes: first person (male or female) to be awarded a bachelor's degree in industrial design in the United States because of the placement of "Bowers" in the alphabet

Licensing

No licenses on record

Professional Affiliations

No affiliations on record

Publications By

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Publications About

Title: Industrial Design at Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1934-1967

Author: Jim Lesko

Publication: Journal of Design History

Volume: 10

Issue: 3

Page: 269-292

Date Published: January 01, 1997

Title: Goddess in the Details: product design by women

Author: Erika Doering, Rachel Sivitzky, Rebecca Welz

Publisher: Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID)

City: New York City

Date Published: January 01, 1994

Notes: published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by The Association of Women Industrial Designers and the Department of Exhibitions at Pratt Institute

Title: Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference

Author: Pat Kirkham

Publisher: Yale University Press

Date Published: January 01, 2002

Notes: Bowers Rice is mentioned on page 66 in the working mothers section