Event scheduled for March 11.
NORTHAMPTON - Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans National Memorial in D.C., will give a free talk March 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Smith College.
Born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, the architectural designer and artist was a 21-year old- senior at Yale University in New Haven, in 1981, when she submitted the winning design in a national competition for a memorial to be built in Washington, D.C. Her concept featured a wall for the names of those who died in the conflict.
The memorial wall today includes the names of more than 58,000 servicemen and women who died in the war in Vietnam. The memorial also includes "The Three Servicemen" statue and the Vietnam Women's Memorial.
Lin's presentation, the Smith College Art Museum's 11th Annual Miller Lecture in Art and Art History, is in conjunction with an exhibit at the museum that focuses on landscape, "The Eye is a Door: Landscape Photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn."
Lin's website notes:
"From recent environmental works such as Storm King Wavefield, Where the Land Meets the Sea and Eleven Minute Line to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where she cut open the land and polished its edges to create a history embedded in the earth, Ms. Lin has consistently explored how we experience the landscape. She has made works that merge completely with the terrain, blurring the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional space and set up a systematic ordering of the land tied to history, language, and time."
For more information on the event, visit http://scma.smith.edu/artmuseum/Events/Lectures/March-11-Miller-Lecture-by-Maya-Lin
Related:
http://www.mayalin.com/