"Curiosity, admiration, and delight in nature activate my energy and creativity. By encouraging observation skills and interest in the natural world, I see others increase their energy and ability to express creative ideas. I work with community members using art and its processes to unite people with the natural world, each other, and their inner self. Often these projects have connected the community and transformed public spaces. The expression of creativity is healthy and uplifting for individuals and communities, it supports the building of a sustainable cultural ecology. My current project themes include water, food, gardens, nutrition, wind, and natural cycles."
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute (Sculpture Ceramics/Fabric)
| Carnegie Mellon University | Sculpture | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Intermedia | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| Syracuse University | 3-D Design | Assistant Professor |
| Cleveland Art Institute | Textiles | Chairperson/Asst. Professor |
| Cleveland Art Institute | 3-D/4-D | Design Summer Program |
| Washington University | 3-D/4-D | Design Instructor |
| Colorado Mountain College | Sculpture | Instructor |
| Art Institute of Chicago | Fiber | Instructor |
| Nelson-Atkins Gallery | Children's | Instructor |
| Kansas City Art Institute | Pre-college | Instructor |
Over 60 lectures and workshops at: M.I.T., Rhode Island School of Design, Cranbrook Academy, University of New Mexico, Atlanta College of Art, Wake Forest, University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, Boston University, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council as a Roster Artist, many K-12 pilot programs, presentations and residencies.
| 2002 | Nathanson, Carol, "With a View Toward the Public- Dayton's Alternative Spaces 77-83" |
| 2002 | "Plates and Palettes: Circles and Celebrations," "Teaching Tolerance Magazine," Montgomery, AL |
| 2001 | Berton, Mark, "Turtle Vision," "Fiberarts," Nov./Dec., Ashville, NC |
| 99-01 | Featured artist: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1997 | Constantine & Reuter, Whole Cloth, Monacelli Press, New York, NY |
| 1985 | Thomas, Michel, Textile Art, (Book on History of Textile), Rizzoli, New York, NY |
| 1984 | Snodgrass, Cindy, "The Creative Process," "Fiberarts," Nov/Dec. Asheville, NC |
| 1985 | Adrian, Robert, "Art+Telecommunications" Arts Electronica. Vienna & Vancouver Thomas, Michel, "11 Portraits d'Artistes. Textile/Art," Paris, France El Attar, et al, K18 Stoffwechsel Catalogue, Kassel, Germany Houk, Pam, ed., "Cloth Forms," Dayton Art Institute Catalogue, Dayton, OH |
| 1982 | "National Endowment for the Arts Craftsmen's Fellowships," American Craft, Tenth Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie Musee Catalogue, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1979 | Wilson, Karen, "Public Fiber" and "Snodgrass: Wind Sculptures," "Fiberarts," Sept./Oct., cover, feature. |
| 2003 | Wings and Prayer, for the Kujenga Pamoja Celebration, Village of Arts and Humanities, Phila.,PA |
| 2002 | The Magic Flute collaboration with Jonathan Eaton and the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, PA Tayamentasachta: Never Ending Water, a 3-story installation about water and balance, a sculptural collage for the old Carnegie Steel Pumphouse, Homestead, PA Birds in the Balance: Water, Air, Land & Food, installation Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PGH, PA Seeds and Celebrations: Garden Quilt, plywood 3D mural with international children, Scranton, PA Flags and Flowers, garden installation, part of 20-year retrospective re: residency program, Dayton, OH. |
| 2001 | Turtle Vision - Waterfall, Pgh Intl. Children's Festival and Intl. Sculpture Conference, PA Cultivating Community: Urban Gardens, 100 sculptural mural Hill District, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2000 | Nature Masks, Carlow College and Grable Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1999 | Plates and Palettes: Circles and Celebrations, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA Earthlines, Community produced fabric installation, Pgh. Intl. Children's Festival, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1998 | WATER / Table / Fable / Tree / WIND, 450 wind activated "stream," Greencastle, PA |
| 1997 | Time Woven Walls, 3D photo/multimedia collage, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1996 | TIME [not line] Wide / Wind /Tide, Installation Foreland Street, Pittsburgh, PA NEA On-line Fellowships Exhibit, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC |
| 1995 | Water / Table / Fable / Tree / EARTH, Tayamentasachta, Greencastle, PA Plant Flags, Wave Hill, 30th Anniversary, Bronx, NY Smoke / Sign / Signal / Screen / FIRE - Homage to Hiroshima: For Every Action There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction, OSU Multicultural Center, Columbus, OH |
| 1992 | Commission, fabric set design, Pittsburgh Intl. Children's Festival, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1991 | Iraq: Birthday Candles, slow-scan exchange "Art's Birthday," nine international locations, DAX |
| 1990 | Eye-to-Eye and Lineage (Collaboration) slow?scan transmissions DAX/Pittsburgh/Dakar Mothers Watch Your Children & China: Wind of Freedom, Parts of Earth Day slow?scan, DAX |
| 1984 | Reflective Flow, Creek installation, Touchstone, Uniontown, PA |
| 1983 | Artists in Fiber, NEA Fellowship winners, Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA Camera Constructions - Bacardi Gallery, two-person exhibit, Miami, FL |
| 1981 | Spirits, performance collaboration - A. Halprin, S. Ninnenger, K. Nurock, UNM, Albq. NM A Living Landscape: Ship Afloat Earth Unbound, Artpark, Lewiston, NY Nature Flags, Dayton City Beautiful Council, Dayton, OH |
| 1980 | Color Wave Rain Bow Ground Break, Groundbreaking ceremony; Cultural Center, Miami, FL |
| 1979 | Das Marchen, Performance collaboration, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH Wind, Water- Bird, Fish- Installation /collage, and fabric Tornado- Octagon Gallery, Ames, IW |
| 1978 | Woven Air, Art and Architecture Symposium, University of Tennessee, Kn oxville, TN Free Butterflies, environmental interior installation, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH |
| 1977 | Urban Gardens, wind sculpture, Yamasaki's Rainier Bank Building, Seattle, WA Butterfly, wind sculpture, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1976 | Bird in Kite/Birth of Venus/Felix, wind sculptures, Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1974 | Rain and Shine Events, Collaboration, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York, NY |
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