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Re: Groundswell

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Dianna (dmammone)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:56:01 -0400

Hi Jane,
I know I saw Groundswell covered in this PBS documentary on Maya Lin. It
seems to me it was done somewhere like Mid-town Manhattan as part of a
"roofscape".
You might want to ask the American Crafts Council of maybe New York chamber
of Commerce. Can anyone else recall this? I'll try to do more checking and
get back to. (I like your choice,
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Shiflett Manner <jmanner>
To: wexner-state.edu <wexner-state.edu>
Cc: artsednet.edu <artsednet.edu>
Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 3:38 AM
Subject: Groundswell

>I have searched every place I can think of to find an image of Maya Lin's
>_Groundswell_! I have images of the Civil Rights Memorial, the Viet Nam
>Veterans Memorial, NYC's Bronx Recycling Plant, the Women's Table, and The
>Wave Field. I have organized an entire thematic unit for my high school
>advanced art class around the word "respect" and Maya Lin was a perfect
>artist to use. I can't remember where I saw her with a shovel arranging
>the glass for Groundswell and I've run out of ideas on how to find an image
>of the work and some text to explain it.
>
>Please, someone offer some resources. Wexner didn't have anything on it
>and the sites I find with the search engines just mention it as they
>explore her other work.
>
>Thanks,
>Jane
>
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