As part of our April film series on Women in Art, the Maine Film Center and the Colby College Museum of Art present Maya Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision (1994, 1:45). This Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the design and creation of the Vietnam War Memorial, focusing on the controversy that …
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Campus + Community Film Series—Maya Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision
Memorializing the Natural Environment: Maya Lin in conversation with Jessamine Batario, Danae Jacobson, and Chris Walker
Consider how art, science, and history converge in Maya Lin’s “last memorial,” What is Missing?, a multi-sited and multimedia project devoted to the global biodiversity crisis related to habitat loss. As a 2020–21 Lunder Institute senior fellow, Lin has been working with several Colby College courses and engaging with the local community …
Maya Lin: What is Missing?
In this opportunity for Maine K–12 educators, world-renowned artist, designer, and environmentalist Maya Lin introduces What is Missing?, her project devoted to the planet’s biodiversity crisis as a result of habitat loss. Lin will invite Maine classrooms to collect personal memories about the natural world. Through interviews with parents and grandparents, students …
Lunder Institute appoints Maya Lin to 2020–21 fellowship
Lunder Institute appoints Maya Lin to 2020–21 fellowship
E-flux, August 26, 2020
Artist Maya Lin joins Colby through remote fellowship
Artist Maya Lin joins Colby through remote fellowship
Bob Keyes in Portland Press Herald, August 26, 2020
Artist-in-Residence Lecture: Maya Lin
Through her art and architecture, Maya Lin explores landscape as a reflection of time, history, and memory. In this lecture organized in conjunction with Colby College’s 2015–16 humanities theme, Human/Nature, Lin will speak about her work and What Is Missing?, her ongoing project that proposes we look at a memorial not as …
2025 Miles and Katherine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture: william cordova
… Prentice Distinguished Lecture is presented by the Colby College Museum of Art and its Lunder Institute for American Art. Presenters in recent years have included Oscar Santillán, An-My Lê, Carrie Mae Weems, Leonardo Drew, Maya Lin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., among others.
Photo Courtesy of Renee Cox
Erica Wall Named Director of the Lunder Institute for American Art
… Herman, Jessica Horton, Key Jo Lee, Maya Lin, Dread Scott, Sarah Sockbeson, David Hamilton Thomson, Veronica Perez, and many others.
Conceived as a research and creative arm of the Colby Museum, the Lunder Institute was established in 2017 through the generosity of Peter and Paula Lunder, longtime benefactors of the College, the Colby Museum …
School Visits
… understand how and why artists interact with and interpret the world around us.
Studio Workshop – Inspired by Maya Lin’s Pin River Kissimmee, students will use the ideas of the artist, similar materials, and their own personal experiences and knowledge of nature to create their own pin art sculpture.
Grades 6–8: Freedom & Equality …
Create Watercolor Stories with the Museum’s Student Guides
Celebrate the last day of spring semester classes with an afternoon of art-making. Spend time with What is Missing?, an interactive website and virtual project designed by Maya Lin as her “last memorial,” with its focus on habitat degradation and loss. Choose the stories that resonate with you, and illustrate them with watercolor pencils …
Banner Image: Sanford Robinson Gifford, A Twilight in the Adirondacks, 1864, Oil on canvas, 10 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in., The Lunder Collection, 2013.130
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