Maya lin biography video for students
In this video segment from New York Voices, renowned architect Maya Lin talks about her work and identity as an American of Chinese descent....
The Private World of the Public Artist Maya Lin
Maya Lin has dedicated more than 40 years of her career to creating pieces of artwork that make spectators respond, or, in her words, creating works that make people “stop thinking and just feel.”
From her earliest designs as an imaginative child innovating works of art in her Ohio bedroom, to undertaking numerous large-scale projects, monuments and memory works over the past decades including the communal sculpture Women’s Table at Yale University, the architectural design for the Langston Hughes Library in Tennessee, the installation Ghost Forest in New York City and the foot-tall The Bell Towerin Guangdong, China, the core of Lin’s aesthetic is to produce an emotional interaction between her work and the beholder.
Lin says in “Maya Lin, In Her Own Words,” a video interview produced by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, that there are two ways to relate to creative works: One is intellectual, and the other is her