Maya Lin Ceramics

Her mother wrote poetry and taught literature.

Maya lin ceramics. Maya lin october 5 born to chinese immigrants in athens ohio on october 5 1959 architect and artist maya ying lin has a long line of distinguished ancestors her father henry huan lin was the former dean of the ohio university college of fine arts and a ceramist. Visit maya lin studio to learn more. Maya is a successful architect and owns maya lin studio an architectural firm in new york city. Maya polychrome ceramic vessel.

Boundaries by maya lin. In 1949 her parents fled communism in china and came to the united states. Her father was a ceramics artist and became dean of the college of fine arts. Two seated male figures of lesser rank face him and between them is a vessel shaped much like the one on which.

A palace court scene is depicted on the exterior of this cylindrical vessel. In 1958 they moved to athens home of ohio university where they were professors. Her mother julia chang lin born in shanghai is a poet and a former professor of. Maya ying lin was born on october 5 1959 in athens ohio a manufacturing and agricultural town seventy five miles southeast of columbus.

Her approach to artmaking often finds its origins in science rather than art demonstrated in her application of satellite technology and. In 1996 maya married daniel wolf and they have two daughters. The daughter of intellectuals who had fled china in 1948 lin received a bachelor s degree in 1981 from yale university in new haven. Maya lin was born on october 5 1959 in athens ohio to henry huan lin a ceramist and former dean of the ohio university college of fine arts and his wife ming hui a professor at the ohio university.

Maya lin american architect and sculptor concerned with environmental themes who is best known for her design of the vietnam veterans memorial in washington d c. The maya had specific techniques to create inscribe paint and design pottery to begin creating a ceramic vessel the maya had to locate the proper resources for clay and temper the present day indigenous maya who currently live in guatemala belize and southern mexico still create wonderful ceramics. Athens is also the home of ohio university where lin s mother julia chang lin a poet was a literature professor. Maya earned both bachelor and master degrees in architecture from yale university.

Maya lin was born in athens ohio on october 5 1959. She has designed everything from buildings to landscape to sculpture. For maya lin the idea of experience movement and nature are integral to her work heightening spatial perception and environmental awareness. Maya lin was born in athens ohio her parents emigrated from china to the united states her father in 1948 and her mother in 1949 and settled in ohio before lin was born.