Maya Lin: climate action

Maya lin is a chinese american artist whose work focuses on climate SDG’s. More specifically #13, climate action. Some of her work is even built into the ground or built using nature.
She submitted the winning design in a national competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC at 21 years old and its very beautiful. She grow up around art, Her dad was a dean of fine arts, and her mom was a literature professor. She takes inspiration for her work from Indian earthen mounds, japanese gardens, along with 60’s and 70’s american earthworks.
She went to yale as an undergraduate and designed the Women’s table which now sits at yale. She was inducted into the National women’s hall of fame in 2005, and awarded the National medal of art in 2009 by Barack Obama.
She tends to use recycled materials such and glass or granite in her work. In 2021, she planted 49 dead Atlantic cedar trees in Madison Square Park for a piece called “Ghost Forest” to highlight the effects of climate change. Her work ranges from landscapes with trees and grass, to sculptures made from clay or metal.