Premieres Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Revisit the Oscar-winning story of Maya Lin, the young ...

POV’ re-airs Freida Lee Mock’s Oscar-winning documentary from 1994 about the compelling career of the landscape architect and ...

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which opened 40 years ago this month, changed everything and nothing about how we understand memorials. Its list of soldiers lost in the war, more than ...

How Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial broke the competition’s biggest rule Go inside the classroom process that helped refine Lin's submission to the open design contest.

A Strong Clear Vision” Lin is a 1977 Athens, Ohio High School graduate  Tuesday, July 22 at 10:00 pm Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision tells... Read More ...

Maya Lin had an early start. Lin’s design has become so celebrated that it’s easy to forget how young she was when she first proposed it. The national contest to design a Vietnam memorial drew ...

Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans' Memorial 1980s. In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., ...

Lin’s spare visual language gave the Vietnam Memorial its haunting power, and now she uses that vocabulary to speak out on environmental tragedies. Thirty years ago, Maya Lin’s haunting ...

Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("The Wall") April 22, 2007 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. Share ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present a talk by Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer and recipient of the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30, in UCSB Campbell Hall ...

Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans' Memorial 1980s In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., dedicated to American soldiers ...

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial wasn’t Maya Lin’s only controversial win. For a while, Lin seemingly couldn’t escape controversy no matter how hard she tried. In 1994, ...