Showing posts with label environmentalists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environmentalists. Show all posts

Friday, April 14, 2023

Maya Lin's 'One Life' closes Sunday


Maya Lin, age about 4, who said later that "play," despite advice from a professor, has always been an important part of her life and work. From a photograph at the National Portrait Gallery exhibition.


Maya Lin  (b. 1959) was only 21 years old and an undergraduate student when her submission for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial  was chosen as the winning design from approximately 1,420 entries.

When the winner was announced, her design met considerable opposition and resistance. Former U.S. Senator James Webb of Virginia, himself a Vietnam veteran, called it "a nihilistic slab of stone"; President Ronald Reagan's secretary of the interior delayed issuing a building permit. 

Since its dedication in 1982, the memorial has become "something of a shrine," according to the founder, Jan Scruggs. 

The U.S. Department of Defense says more than five million people visit the memorial annually, making it the most popular monument on the National Mall ...  and the first monument there to be designed by a woman.

On two pieces of black granite, the names of 58,320 persons (the number is debatable) who are missing in action or died as a result of the Vietnam War are carved in chronological order of their deaths.

Closing Sunday at the National Portrait Gallery is a short celebration of Ms. Lin's life in an excellent exhibition, One Life:  Maya Lin.  

In 2016 President Barack Obama awarded Maya Lin the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S./by Chip Somodevilla (b. 1972)
In the Maya Lin gallery at the National Portrait Gallery/by Patricia Leslie
In the Maya Lin gallery at the National Portrait Gallery/by Patricia Leslie

Her life's story is shown in chronological order with family photos, personal items, three dimensional models, designs and pictures of other buildings she has accomplished since the memorial thrust her into the world's limelight which has never waned.

Dorothy Moss, the museum’s curator of painting and sculpture, curated the show.

Maya Lin's Langston Hughes Library in Clinton, Tennessee, from a photograph by Timothy Hursley (b. 1955), National Portrait Gallery
Maya Lin's Riggio-Lynch Interfaith Chapel, Clinton, Tennessee, from a photograph by Timothy Hursley (b. 1955), National Portrait Gallery
The introduction to Maya Lin at the National Portrait Gallery/by Patricia Leslie
The introduction to Maya Lin at the National Portrait Gallery/by Patricia Leslie


When Ms. Lin entered college, she wanted to be a zoologist. Part of her schooling took her to Denmark where she learned memorials could become community spaces. 

As a child she spent hours playing with her brother in the woods behind the family home in Ohio, nature's surroundings which continue to play a criticial role in her life and work as an environmentalist and climate change soldier.

This is the museum’s first One Life exhibition dedicated to an Asian American.

For photos from the memorial on Memorial Day 2014, go here. For a visit Ms. Lin made to the former Corcoran Gallery in 2009, go here.


What:  One Life:  Maya Lin

When: Closing April 16, 2023. The National Portrait Gallery is open daily from 11:30 a.m - 7 p.m. 

Where: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets, N. W., Washington, D.C. 20001

Admission: No fee

For more information: 202-633-8300 or visit the website

Closest Metro station: Gallery Place-Chinatown or walk 10 minutes from Metro Center

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Saturday, April 29, 2017

People's Climate March best signs and more

 President Trump left his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue to greet 200,000 marchers at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 President Trump was also seen in front of the White House at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 In front of the Newseum at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie


Across the street a giraffe made an appearance to ask for help saving the environment at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 In front of the National Gallery of Art on the way to the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie

 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie

 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Security and barriers in front of the Trump International Hotel.  As they passed, marchers from the People's Climate March shouted "Shame!  Shame!" April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 In front of the Trump International Hotel, the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 President Trump welcomed security to his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 President Trump (on left) welcomed marchers to his hotel at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Many wanted to have their photograph taken with President Trump at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017,  Occasionally, a head popped from behind the sign Mr. Trump wore and made remarks/photo by Patricia Leslie
"Glamberger" helped welcome marchers, too, to Trump's hotel at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Security at the Trump International Hotel for the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Flags fly, marchers shout, and security remains calm at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 In front of the FBI Building at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Music was galore at the People's Climate March.  In the center are a trombonist and a French horn player and somewhere, a percussionist. April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Vegans had a message, too, at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 A Bernie supporter at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017.  It was a balmy 91 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity added "some" discomfort. About a third of Pennsylvania was shady, and marchers took advantage of low walls to sit a spell and renew energy before they resumed their walks.  I saw one woman with a bloody foot being helped by other marchers.  She was wearing flip flops (dumb!)/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Coming up 15th on the east side of the White House at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Security on White House grounds at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 The People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
On 15th near the W Hotel.  About this time (2 p.m.) came orders for everybody to "sit down!" The reason?  I didn't get the message at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
What a nice man who fanned the woman sitting at the White House at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie

Rounding the corner from 15th to Pennsylvania Avenue and arrival at the front of the White House at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
In front of the White House at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
 Lafayette Park and the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
  Lafayette Park and the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
  Lafayette Park and the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie
There was a bear at Lafayette Park who stood beside this girl whose sign says "Protect Arctic Wildlife Refuge, We Stand with Gwichin" (?) at the People's Climate March, April 29, 2017/photo by Patricia Leslie

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