Maya Lin's Peace Chapel - Huntingdon, PA
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision" details the first decade of the career or architect and artist Maya Lin.
This Academy Award-winning 1994 documentary traces Lin's journey from conceiving and completing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., to her subsequent acclaim as the designer of the Civil Rights Memorial and Juniata's Peace Chapel, which was completed in 1988. This excerpt from the film, directed by Freida Lee Mock, shows the dedication of the Peace Chapel.
The title of the film echoes a line in Lin's 1989 convocation speech at Juniata, where she said,
"Architecture has the potential to influence how we relate to each other and to the environment. My interest in art, may seem less socially motivated - art doesn't serve a specific purpose, it is not yet "functional" yet I think nothing bothered me more during the controversy over the Vietnam Memorial than to be misunderstood as an 'elite artist' only concerned with the 'look' of her work - it saddened me to think that some couldn't see how art relates to people that it is meant to communicate with people - or that an artist fights to retain the integrity of the work so that it remains a strong clear vision, that can affect people."
This Academy Award-winning 1994 documentary traces Lin's journey from conceiving and completing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., to her subsequent acclaim as the designer of the Civil Rights Memorial and Juniata's Peace Chapel, which was completed in 1988. This excerpt from the film, directed by Freida Lee Mock, shows the dedication of the Peace Chapel.
The title of the film echoes a line in Lin's 1989 convocation speech at Juniata, where she said,
"Architecture has the potential to influence how we relate to each other and to the environment. My interest in art, may seem less socially motivated - art doesn't serve a specific purpose, it is not yet "functional" yet I think nothing bothered me more during the controversy over the Vietnam Memorial than to be misunderstood as an 'elite artist' only concerned with the 'look' of her work - it saddened me to think that some couldn't see how art relates to people that it is meant to communicate with people - or that an artist fights to retain the integrity of the work so that it remains a strong clear vision, that can affect people."
The Peace Chapel is an environmental landscape site designed by architect, Maya Lin
The Peace Chapel provides a contemplative setting within the rolling hills of central Pennsylvania
"Under the boundless sky. A speck in the star filled universe
This Earth, this spinning planet
Is God's great gift to us
This Circle of Stones, this place of worship
We dedicate to God our creator
And may we truly be his people
Worthy of the sacred gift of life"
Elizabeth Evans Baker
1989
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