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Renowned Artist Maya Lin, designer of Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to speak in Leavenworth Friday, April 16, 7:00 p.m. |
Sleeping Lady Foundation is honored to present award-winning artist Maya Lin, best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Ms. Lin will share her remarkable work and vision in a lecture at Sleeping Lady Chapel Theater, Leavenworth.
Maya Lin has maintained a careful balance between art and architecture throughout her career, creating a body of work that includes memorials, large-scale environmental artworks, architectural works, and intimate studio pieces.
In most, if not all, of her works, landscape inspires Ms. Lin; natural topographies and geologic phenomena largely influence her art. She finds inspiration in aerial views of the earth, solar eclipses, rock formations, ice floes, and water patterns. Through her works, she addresses how we relate and respond to the environment and presents new ways of looking at our world.
Recently, Ms. Lin has been working on seven sites along the Columbia River as part of the Confluence Project. Her engraved basalt Story Circles at Sacajawea State Park will be dedicated April 17, 2010, in Pasco, WA. This event is open to the public. Pacific Northwest Native American Tribes along with Washington and Oregon civic groups initiated the Confluence Project in 2000 to evoke the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition thus highlighting the changes the expedition brought to the PNW.
The Confluence Project’s intent is to preserve and protect the area’s natural and cultural resources. When complete, the project will have transformed seven places along the historic Columbia River Basin with significant landscape restoration and environmental enhancements, all of which will complement Ms. Lin’s permanent art installations.
Ms. Lin has been consistent in her dedication to the landscape, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, “where she cut open the land and polished its edges to create a history embedded in the earth,” and now to recent local environmental works such as the seven sites of The Confluence Project along the Columbia River.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students/seniors. Call Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort at 800-574-2123 or 509-548-6344. Other options include a $100 dinner package – limited seating is available for this 5 p.m. dinner with Ms. Lin, and lecture tickets with reserved seating are included. Overnight accommodation with a dinner/lecture package is also available. All proceeds from the evening will benefit the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust.
The Sleeping Lady Foundation’s purpose is to bring world-class programs and speakers to the Wenatchee Valley to educate and stimulate dialogue on issues of local, national, and international importance. Examples of past speakers include Greg Mortenson of Central Asia Institute and author of Three Cups of Tea; Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center; Zainab Salbi, founder and CEO of Women for Women International; and, most recently, Father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries.
For more on Maya Lin, visit her website: http://www.mayalin.com/.