Gilda Snowden (July 29, 1954 – September 9, 2014)[2] was an African-American artist, educator and mentor from Detroit, Michigan.
[4] Her parents and grandparents migrated from Alabama and Texas to Detroit early in the 20th century, part of the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North.
[4] At Wayne State University, she was heavily influenced by the Cass Corridor art movement and studied with artist John Egner.
[1] In 1985, Gilda Snowden became a professor in Department of Fine Arts at the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit.
Her Flora Urbana series features abstracted floral forms, in encaustic, inspired by the gardens now tended by Detroit citizens on plots where buildings once stood.