M.L. Snowden

[2] Her mother also pursued advanced work as a doctor of biochemistry, developing natural skincare and consumer products.

Snowden had one brother, George, who was a financial investor, advisor, and humanitarian philanthropist.

[5][6][7] She took her first sculpture lessons from her father as he was sculpting the main altar and exterior statuary for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.[8] After becoming one of the first women to enroll at Loyola Marymount University in 1970, she studied with Macdonald-Wright's protégé Pauline Khuri-Majoli and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting and sculpture in 1974.

She sculpted four 30-inch angels that wrap around the base of the Rosso Laguna marble main altar.

[14][15][16][17] A bronze free-standing screen bas-relief wall panel, "Creation's Gate", was debuted in the cathedral's Chapel 5.