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Maya Lin

Maya Lin has worked on art and architectural projects throughout the United States. Since setting up her studio in 1987, Lin has created both public and private artworks, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) in Washington, D.C.; the Civil Rights Memorial (1989) in Montgomery, Alabama; and the Langston Hughes Library (1999) in Clinton, Tennessee, among others. Her work has been highly acclaimed; a documentary about her work, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995. Born in Athens, Ohio, and educated at Yale University, she lives with her family in New York City.

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Boundaries will be released on September 12, 2006 in Trade Paperback
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Huffington Post, April 6, 2013
...iconic LOVE statue in Philadelphia, the book includes Lawerence Weiner's NYC manhole covers stating, as well as Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C. Looking at both the sculptures themselves and how they function in a public...
New York Review of Books, December 27, 2012
...Far more is at stake in Barack Obama’s decision on whether to nominate Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense than whether Chuck Hagel is nominated. What the president decides will bear on: his effectiveness in his second term; any president’s...
Architectural Record, December 11, 2012
...partnership with her husband, Colin St. John Wilson, as well as her most recent work on artists? workspaces. Maya Lin (?81 B.A., ?86 M.Arch, ?87 DFAH) spoke about her career (huge success at a young age), her practice (wanting to keep it small), and her...
Cleveland Live, December 8, 2012
...the book -- a dramatis personae of the dead to come -- reminiscent of the unnerving minimalism of Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The unfamiliar Greek sounds of 214 names (eight pages of them) tend toward a sacred, morbid glossolalia. In the...
Washington Post, November 19, 2012
...a slave escape to freedom C. Sew a dress D. Ride a train 6 As a school project, Maya Lin came up with the design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. What grade did she get on the project? A. A B. B C. C D. F 7 Golda Meir...
Cleveland Live, September 15, 2012
...has received an Orange Prize and a Pen/Faulkner award for her fiction. She was born in Los Angeles. Maya Lin 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 Finney Chapel, Oberlin College The artist who is credited for redefining the idea of monuments with her...
Alameda Patch, September 12, 2012
...place in the Island’s elementary schools, which have added 150 students so far this year. The new Maya Lin magnet school is serving 36 more students than it did last year, the district’s numbers show, and Edison, Haight, Lum, Otis and Ruby Bridges...
BirdLife International, January 18, 2013
...said. Guests included Uma Thurman and Arki Busson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Maya Lin, Jane Alexander, Ambassador Ana Irene Delgado, Allison Rockefeller, Louis and Gabrielle Bacon, Cynthia and Dan W. Lufkin, Sonia...
DMN Newswire, January 18, 2013
...said. Guests included Uma Thurman and Arki Busson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Maya Lin, Jane Alexander, Ambassador Ana Irene Delgado, Allison Rockefeller, Louis and Gabrielle Bacon, Cynthia and Dan W. Lufkin, Sonia and...
I Stock Analyst, January 18, 2013
...said. Guests included Uma Thurman and Arki Busson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Maya Lin, Jane Alexander, Ambassador Ana Irene Delgado, Allison Rockefeller, Louis and Gabrielle Bacon, Cynthia and Dan W. Lufkin, Sonia and...
Traders Huddle, January 18, 2013
...said. Guests included Uma Thurman and Arki Busson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Maya Lin, Jane Alexander, Ambassador Ana Irene Delgado, Allison Rockefeller, Louis and Gabrielle Bacon, Cynthia and Dan W. Lufkin, Sonia and...
Yahoo! Finance, January 18, 2013
...said. Guests included Uma Thurman and Arki Busson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Maya Lin, Jane Alexander, Ambassador Ana Irene Delgado, Allison Rockefeller, Louis and Gabrielle Bacon, Cynthia and Dan W. Lufkin, Sonia and...
Morningstar.com, January 18, 2013
...said. Guests included Uma Thurman and Arki Busson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Maya Lin, Jane Alexander, Ambassador Ana Irene Delgado, Allison Rockefeller, Louis and Gabrielle Bacon, Cynthia and Dan W. Lufkin, Sonia and...