Gilda Snowden:  

Life Gilda Snowden, a native Detroiter, grew up on LaSalle street on the near Northwest side. After attending Custer Elementary and Post Jr High, she graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1972, where she majored in Clothing & Textile Design. Gilda is currently a Professor of Fine Art at the College for Creative Studies [CCS], in the Cultural Center, where she teaches Concepts & Images, Contemporary Art History, and Senior Studio Tutorial. While a graduate student she began teaching painting and drawing at Wayne State University, then continued as adjunct faculty after graduation, teaching in total from 1979 to 1985. She then left WSU when she was hired as a full time instructor at CCS. Gilda also functions as Gallery Director of the Detroit Repertory Theatre Lobby Gallery, curating four shows a year to coincide with the play schedule. She maintains a studio in Detroit in the Alternative Work Site/2000 Brooklyn, just two blocks from Old Tiger Stadium. An active participant in the Detroit art community, Gilda began exhibiting her work while still a graduate student at Wayne State University, where she received a BFA, MA and MFA in Painting. She has been exhibiting her work steadily since 1977, in such venues as the Sherry Washington Gallery, Dell Pryor Galleries, O.K. Harris Gallery, GR N'Namdi Gallery, Willis Gallery, Focus Gallery, Detroit Artists Market, Feigenson Gallery, JRainey Gallery, Saginaw Art Museum, and the DIA. Her exhibition SIGNATURE IMAGES at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1990, resulted in three pieces being acquired for the museum collection. Snowden has received four Individual Artists Grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts; an individual artists grant from ArtsMidwest; and the Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago. In addition to her role as Gallery Director with the Detroit Repertory Theatre , Gilda has curated shows at the Willis Gallery, Pontiac Art Center, Focus Gallery, Dell Pryor Galleries, and the Ur...Expand for more