She received her BFA from the University of Georgia and MFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and the LaGrange Art Museum. Additionally, West Rivers's work has been shown at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (San Francisco, CA), New Century Artist Gallery (New York, NY), Root Division (San Francisco, CA), Kala Art Institute (Berkley, CA), Carmel Visual Arts (Carmel, CA), Kiernan Gallery (Lexington, VA), and The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA). She has taught Photography at the California College of the Arts and has assisted two workshops at the Headlands Center of the Arts. She co-founded Canewater Farms with her husband in Darien, GA, where The Thicket Residency is located. http://ansleywest.com/