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Leila Daw (born 1940). is an American and art professor; her work uses diverse materials to explore themes of cartography and feminism.
Daw's works include permanent installations at the Bradley International Airport. and the New Haven Free Public Library; Percent for Art Program, City of New Haven, retrieved 2010-04-17. she has also participated in group exhibits at the Contemporary Arts Center. Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, May 17 – August 17, 2008, retrieved 2010-04-17. and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape , Mass MoCA, May 24, 2008 – April 12, 2009, retrieved 2010-04-17. Daw was one of a group of artists who took part in the design of the St. Louis MetroLink light rail system, and she became a member of the MetroLink project management team.... Her work Red River (1991) at Centenary College of Louisiana, a pattern of wildflowers in a public lawn, is imbued with symbolism of menstruation and menopause.. Art by Daw originally commissioned for the Massachusetts Turnpike – a set of steel painted to look like oversized folded paper maps – is on exhibit at the DeCordova Museum in Other works of Daw have been more ephemeral: her Pre-Historic River Channel (1981), for instance, used skywriting to map the course of the Mississippi River at an earlier age when it bypassed the current location of St. Louis..
Over the years, Daw has incorporated a great diversity of materials into her work. As Joanna Frueh writes, "Since the early 1980s she has used acrylic, pencil, bronzing powders, metal leaf, Mylar, foil, and other mixed media on paper and canvas in order to create maps that replicate the terrain in regions where she has lived – St. Louis and Boston – and traveled, by car, plane, and imagination, such as the American desert West.".
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