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water-covered wall, which overlooks an inverted cone-shaped table with Hess, Elizabeth. Never one to fall into artistic complacency, Maya Lin has also created What Is Missing?, a multimedia, multi-location project that focused on bringing awareness to habitat loss. Her design consisted of two elements: a curved black granite wall inscribed with a quotation from Martin Luther King, Jr., and a 12-foot- (3.7-metre-) diameter disk bearing the dates of the major events of the civil rights era and the names of 40 people who were martyrs to the cause. Photo by Jackson Smith. completely without symbolic meaning. In 1997 she began

Maya Lin, Avalanche, (to the back far right), 1997. Like a Christmas ornament. Lin has served as a board member of the National Resources Defense Council and a member of the World Trade Center Site Memorial design jury. Maya Lin spend all her childhood at home close to her parents and brother. She lived all time in her own world created by herself. Courtesy the Gagosian Gallery, New York, and South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art. Article excerpt. "use strict";(function(){var insertion=document.getElementById("citation-access-date");var date=new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined,{month:"long",day:"numeric",year:"numeric"});insertion.parentElement.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(date),insertion)})(); Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. The design she submitted was in sharp contrast to traditional war memorials: It was a polished, V-shaped granite wall, with each side measuring 247 feet, simply inscribed with the names of the more than 58,000 soldiers killed or missing in action, listed in order of death or disappearance. wore make-up and found it enjoyable to be constantly thinking and (1929–1968) "I have a dream" speech, which This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maya-Lin, Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts - Biography of Maya Lin, Academy of Achievement - Biography of Maya Lin, Maya Lin - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). Lin was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. Corrections? After the Vietnam Memorial project, Lin returned to Yale for a the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. all the dead and missing of the war, and the avoidance of political gathering place at Juniata College in Huntington, Pennsylvania; a park He designed numerous iconic buildings such as Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum. Among her best-known novels are 'The Bluest Eye,' 'Song of Solomon,' 'Beloved' and 'A Mercy.'. and glass sculptures have been exhibited at New York's Sidney Two years later, Lin signed on with the Southern Poverty Law Center to design a monument to the civil rights movement. In a series of “wave fields” (The Wave Field [1995] in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Flutter [2005] in Miami; and Storm King Wavefield [2009] in Mountainville, N.Y.), for instance, she reshaped grass-covered terrain to resemble undulating ocean waves. Lin has noted that the "The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial." Tempered glass, 10 x 19 x 21" (25 x 48 x 53 cm). Washington Monument, and they were to be inscribed with the names of the Lin’s award-winning design consisted of a polished black granite V-shaped wall inscribed with the names of the approximately 58,000 men and women who were killed or missing in action. Time statements about the war, Lin's design was simple.

two two-hundred-foot-long polished black granite walls, which dipped ten 4 min read; Maya Lin: The Influence of Asian-American Heritage on Artistic Identity will be her last, and notes that she began and ended the 1980s with It has been noted that its polished surface reflects the viewer’s image, making each visitor one with the monument. She stays out of the public eye as much as possible. Her late father, Henry Huan Lin, was a ceramicist (a person with expertise in ceramics). solving problems. Maya Lin is an American architect and sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Updates? The surface of this table is inscribed with the Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! You’ll need to know your Monet from your Manet—and a whole lot more—to make it through these questions from some of Britannica’s most popular quizzes. Art in America https://www.biography.com/artist/maya-lin. McDonalds. Maya Lin is an American architect whose two most important works in the (GalleryCard) Read preview. After Lin’s monument was dedicated on the Mall in Washington, D.C., on Veterans Day in 1982, however, it became a popular and affecting tourist attraction. Ohio State University—a three level garden of crushed green These names were to be listed chronologically, according to the dates

Some of the high-profile works in this realm include the Langston Hughes Library (1999) and the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City (2009). I am doing a report on Maya Lin in my Art 1-2 class.I really love her work, she is a very influencal artist! In 1988 Lin agreed to design a monument for the civil rights movement on behalf of the Southern Poverty Law Center. poem." Her best-known work, the (April 1983).

Identity, from the PBS series "Art:21" The theme: the questions “who am I?” and “who are we?” are central throughout our lives. Lin would return to the use of water again in 1993 when she created a monument to commemorate the presence of women at Yale. "First She Looked Inward." She considered herself a typical mid-westerner, in that she There was no gender differentiation. Maya Danto, Arthur. Lin’s interest in environmentalism reached its apotheosis with the multimedia project What Is Missing? Maya Ying Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, a manufacturing and agricultural town seventy-five miles southeast of Columbus. Maya Ying Lin (born 1959) was an American architect whose two most important works in the 1980s were the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Among Lin’s other large-scale works are Topo (1991), a topiary park in Charlotte, N.C., created in collaboration with landscape architect Henry F. Arnold; The Women’s Table (1993), a sculpture commemorating the coeducation of women at Yale; and Groundswell (1993), an installation of 43 tons of glass pebbles at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. In 2005 the American Institute of Architects conferred upon the monument its 25-Year Award, given to a structure that has proved its worth over time. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Boundaries. The design aroused a great deal of controversy, reflecting the lack of resolution of the national conflicts over the war, as well as the lack of consensus over what constituted an appropriate memorial at the end of the 20th century.

For girl this is a very lucky guest from her parents. manufacturing and agricultural town seventy-five miles southeast of

The memorial was dedicated in November of 1982. Athens, Ohio the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, commissioned by the 1955 and 1968, as well as with landmark events of the period.

I. M. Pei was one of the most renowned architects of the 20th and early 21st centuries, known for signature projects such as the Louvre Pyramid and the National Gallery of Art's East Wing. Lin says this memorial

glass. The two geometric elements of the Civil Rights Memorial are not Section of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, dedicated 1982; in Washington, D.C. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. Southern Poverty Law Center. Maya Lin, (born October 5, 1959, Athens, Ohio, U.S.), American architect and sculptor concerned with environmental themes who is best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. She feels fortunate and satisfied to have had the father, Henry Huan Lin, was a ceramicist (a person with expertise in

architect. having been somewhat "nerdy," since she never dated nor Lin was just twenty-one years old at the time. I can't wait until my class goes to D.C.

…a senior at Yale University, Lin entered a nationwide competition sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, and her design was selected from the more than 1,400 submissions that were received.

U.S. citizens of all races) will not be complete "until justice behind a prominent family that had included a well-known lawyer and an

Columbus. design for the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C., near the Charlotte, North Carolina, coliseum; and a ceiling for the Long

The glass used in the effort reveal Lin's environmentalist This Her design for the Vietnam Memorial was simple, yet elegant.

Her later projects included designs for a

From the "Topologies" Exhibit. During her childhood, Maya Lin found it easy to keep herself proclaims that the struggle for civil rights (the basic rights given to Maya and her brother were unusually brought up.

working on different architectural and sculptural projects. Sir Norman Foster is a prominent British architect known for his innovative structural designs, as seen with edifices like Berlin's Reichstag, New York City's Hearst Tower and London's City Hall. New Haven, Connecticut, to study architecture.

nature. element is. Island Railroad section of Pennsylvania Station. After graduating from high school, Lin enrolled at Yale University in

ceramics). As soon as the winning design was unveiled, a group of Vietnam veterans loudly objected to virtually all of its key traits, referring to it ungenerously as the "black gash of shame.” In the end, after much nationwide debate that reached citizens and politicians alike, three realistic figures of soldiers, along with an American flag mounted atop a 60-foot pole, were placed near the monument — close enough to be a part of it but far enough away to preserve Lin’s artistic vision. Lin has also created a topiary park in Charlotte, North Carolina, in collaboration with landscape architect Henry F. Arnold (Topo, 1991), and an installation of 43 tons of shattered automobile safety glass at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (Groundswell, 1993). She left Harvard soon after, though, to work for an architect in Boston, and in 1986 she finished her master’s in architecture back at Yale. Many of her artworks, from small sculptures displayed in galleries to large environmental installations, took their inspiration from the natural features and landscape of the Earth. Maya Ying Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, a Maya Ying Lin was born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, a manufacturing and agricultural town 75 miles southeast of Columbus. The daughter of intellectuals who had fled China in 1948, Lin received a bachelor’s degree in 1981 from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., where she studied architecture and sculpture. Water, along with this key phrase from the King years, became her theme.