Lila Snow was born in Harlem, raised in Brooklyn and studied art here in Washington at American University and The Corcoran School of Art. Her oil paintings on wood and canvas reflect an ongoing interest in codes and calligraphy. Japanese symbols, Hebrew letters and petroglyphs are used in these paintings for both the shape of the letters and as a reflection about the cultures. Her paintings have been on exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Brody Gallery. She is included in the permanent collections at American Association for the Advancement of Science, Palermo University in Buenos Aires, The Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, DC, Radford University and The University of Maryland.