Word: mayas
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...We’d like to expand our public programming. The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents a major lecture series each year, bringing major artists to CCVA to show and discuss their work. This past fall we have had Ed Ruscha, Maya Lin, and Jane and Louise Wilson. In the spring we will host Laura Mulvey, Wayne Guyton and Kelley Walker, and Julie Mehretu. This is an extraordinary opportunity for our students to meet, hear, and talk with these established artists...
...tweak perceptions,” the artist Maya Lin says of her work. True to form, Lin had the audience questioning its own assumptions about her and her art last night at the Carpenter Center, where she spoke with Bass Professor of English Louis Menand.First, there was her appearance. Casually dressed in brown corduroy pants, black glasses, and a loose-fitting sweater, Lin answered with a soft-spoken demeanor that belied an intensely serious artistic sensibility as she guided the audience through a rigorous examination of her recent work.Best-known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while a senior...
...This furniture would add to the Grille’s existing collection of retro furniture. Movie posters on the walls and records hanging from the ceiling will add to the new atmosphere. The Grille’s proposed journey back in time has been led by Eliot House residents Maya E. Frommer ’07 and Jennifer C. O’Brien ’07. Frommer said she first pitched the redesign theme to the Eliot House Committee (HoCo) as a possible way of making the then-closed Grille usable again. Her design scheme, she said, was inspired...
...Maya Frommer...
...Mayamania A series of dramatic discoveries -- including four lost cities in the jungles of southern Belize -- shed new light on the ancient civilization of the Maya, which flourished in Central America between the years 250 and 900 and then suddenly collapsed, apparently the victim of infighting, overpopulation and reckless destruction of the rain forest...