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Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: 林瓔; pinyin: Lín Yīng; born October 5, 1959) is an American artist who has become known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She is the niece of Lin Huiyin. Her best known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2420x1384, 1134 KB) from en wiki Taken by en:User:Lorax on October 13, 2003. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2420x1384, 1134 KB) from en wiki Taken by en:User:Lorax on October 13, 2003. ... The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial located in Washington, D.C., that honors members of the U.S. armed forces who had died in service or are unaccounted for during the Vietnam War. ... Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... For other uses, see 5th October (Serbia). ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ... â€œSculptorâ€ redirects here. ... Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. ... Lin Huiyin (Chinese: æž—å¾½å› ; Pinyin: ; June 10, 1904 - April 1, 1955) was a famous Chinese architect and writer of the 20th century. ... The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial located in Washington, D.C., that honors members of the U.S. armed forces who had died in service or are unaccounted for during the Vietnam War. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ...

Early life

She was born in Athens, Ohio, daughter of Henry Huan Lin, a ceramist and former Dean of the Ohio University College of Fine Arts, and Julia Chang Lin, formerly Professor of Literature at Ohio University. ^[1] She studied at Yale University (A.D. 1986). In 1987, Yale conferred upon her an honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Arts. Ms. Lin is married to Daniel Wolf, a New York photography dealer, and the couple have two daughters. ^[2] ^[3] â€œYaleâ€ redirects here. ...

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

In 1981, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, she won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The black cut-stone masonry wall, with the names of fallend soldiers carved into its face as requested by the families of the casualties, officially opened to the public on November 11, 1982. The wall was granite and V-shaped, with one side pointing to the Lincoln Memorial and the other to the Washington Monument. Lin's conception was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the gravity of the loss of the soldiers. The design was originally controversial but has since been much acclaimed and is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. It has also become an important pilgrimage site for relatives and friends of the American military casualties in Vietnam, and personal tokens and momentos are daily left at the wall in their memory. ^[4] ^[5] The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial located in Washington, D.C., that honors members of the U.S. armed forces who had died in service or are unaccounted for during the Vietnam War. ... is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... The Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential memorial built to honor 16th President Abraham Lincoln. ... The Washington Monument at dusk For other Washington Monuments, see Washington Monuments (world). ...

If the competition hadn't been a blind one, in which designs were submitted by number instead of name, "I never would have won," she says. Some groups criticised the memorial because of its non-traditional design, but Lin successfully defended her design in front of the U.S. Congress. Eventually a compromise was reached and a bronze statue of a group of soldiers was placed off to one side of the monument. ^[6]

Subsequent work after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Lín, who now owns and operates Maya Lin Studios in New York City, went on to design other structures, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama (1989) and the Wave Field at the University of Michigan (1995). New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama is a memorial to 40 people who died in the struggle for equal and integrated treatment of people of European and African descent. ... Coordinates: , Country State County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Government - Mayor Bobby Bright Area - City 156. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...

In 1994, she was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. The title comes from an address she gave at Yale where she speaks of the monument design process. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...

In 2000, Lin re-emerged in public life with a book Boundaries.^[7] Also in 2000, she agreed to act as the artist and architect for the Confluence Project, a series of outdoor installations at historical points along the Columbia River and Snake River in the state of Washington. This is the largest and longest project that she has undertaken so far.^[8] The goal of the Degree Confluence Project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections on Earth, and post photographs of each location on the World Wide Web. ... The Columbia River (French: fleuve Columbia) is a river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. ... For other uses, see Snake River (disambiguation). ... For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ...

In 2002, Lin was elected Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University (Upon whose campus sits another of Lin's designs: the Women's Table - designed to commemorate the role of women at Yale University.), in an unusually public contest. Her opponent was W. David Lee, a local New Haven minister and graduate of the Yale Divinity School who was running on a platform to build ties to the community with the support of Yale's unionized employees. Lin was supported by Yale's President Richard Levin, other members of the Yale Corporation, and was the officially endorsed candidate of the Association of Yale Alumni. The Yale Corporation is another name for the President and Fellows of Yale College, which is the governing board of Yale University. ... â€œYaleâ€ redirects here. ... Yale Divinity School is the one of the constituent graduate schools of Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. ... Richard Charles Levin (b. ...

In 2003, Lin served on the selection jury of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. Some have attributed the trend toward minimalism and abstraction among the entrants, finalists, and current World Trade Center Memorial to Lin's presence on the Jury. The World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was an open, international memorial contest, initiated by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), as per the specifications of architect Daniel Libeskind, to design a World Trade Center Site Memorial (later renamed the World Trade Center Memorial) on a portion of the reconstructed... Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. ... Kazimir Malevich, Black square 1915 Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way. ... In August 2006, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began construction on the Memorial and Museum. ...

In 2005, Lin was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art. ... The National Womens Hall of Fame was created in 1969 by a group of people in Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the first American womens rights convention, now known to historians as the 1848 Womens Rights Convention. ... Seneca Falls refers to a town and a village in Seneca County, New York: Seneca Falls (town) Seneca Falls (village) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the state. ...

Lin was commisioned by Ohio University to design what is known as punch card park, a landscape literally designed to resemble a punch card, supposedly based on Lin's memories of their early use in universities. The park is a large open space with rectangular mounds and voids on the ground. At first the park was criticized for being relatively uninviting and lacked trees or structures to shade students from the sun. In addition from the ground level it is difficult to tell what the park is supposed to look like, though from an arial view it does resemble a punch card. The university since planted trees around the parks perimeter making it a more popular place for students to gather. Ohio University (OU) is a public university located in Athens, Ohio that is situated on a 1,800 acre (7. ... Punched cards (or Hollerith cards, or IBM cards), are pieces of stiff paper that contain digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. ...

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