By: Hannah BrazeauMAYA LIN

Maya was born in Athens, OH on October 5th 1959, she is a U.S architect and sculptor.

Lin received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in New Heaven Conn. In 1981 where she studied architecture and sculpture.

She received her fame in 1981 when her class assignment at Yale on the nationwide Vietnam Veterans Memorial competition. Lin’s award-winning design consisted of a black granite V-shaped wall inscribed with the names of the approximately 58,000 men and women who were killed or missing in action.

Before it was settled… Soon after it was approved with the appropriate agencies, a

group of veterans called “ black gash of shame” and were offended by it and began a protest, and they said it was insulting to the soldiers who had died. The original plans, by their standards, was a white marble sculpture featuring soldiers.

*Civil Rights Movement*For her next project, a memorial for the Civil

Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama, The design for the monument was a large, solid granite disk engraved with the names and events of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.Behind the disk is a nine-foot granite wall inscribed with the quotation from Martin Luther King.

* Both pieces are covered with thin veil of constantly running water

*CRM- to be continued..

In 1989 Maya Lin decided she would no longer create monuments, since that was becoming the only thing she was involved with and she wanted to do other things…

She designed sculptures all around the world…

Great Canoe Sculpture; the Central City of Las Vegas

“The Listening Cone” in San Francisco

2x4 Landscape, 2006, 10' x 53'4" x 35', wood

Beyond Monuments

• During the 1980s, she renovated 2 floors of a building in New York City for a new museum of African Art. She designed several private residences. A great honor came Lin’s way when she was asked by Yale to create a sculpture for the women at the university.

YALE SCULPTURE She designed a three-foot-high table of green

granite. A funnel-shaped hole in the table so it allows water to seep through. On top is a spiral of numbers, which begin with zero and run into the thousands , indicating the number of women who have attended Yale over the years.

Recent Activity

Most recently, Maya Lin has written a book, “Boundaries”, and Created a sculpture for New Minneapolis Client Service Center. (March 12, 2002)

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