Sunny and sparkling clean, the Eastman Reading Garden is open!

Between the Main Building and the Louis Stokes Wing, the Eastman Reading Garden is the most beloved green space in downtown Cleveland. At its center is a waist-high fountain and reflecting pool of smooth charcoal granite, designed by Maya Lin who is best known for her Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Mark your calendars for May 28, 5:30 p.m. for an official opening party. Join the Library, the Friends, and Cleveland Public Art for an evening of refreshments and music (by Mifune) as we officially open the garden for the 2009 season.

Additionally, we are launching See Also, a new annual program that invites artists to create temporary art in the garden during the spring and summer months.

Click here for more information about Maya Lin.

Maya Lin’s work is currently on exhibit in Systematic Landscapes at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. until July 12, 2009.

Three room-sized installations allow the viewer to experience a schematic representation of landscape forms that they can walk around.  The different landscapes include ocean waves or hills composed of wood boards in various lengths, an undersea land mass shaped from wire and a mountain range sliced into a grid of particle board. 

The fourth piece, Pin River-Potomac, made of straight pins, created for this exhibit was installed by students form the Corcoran College of Art + Design.

Maya Lin titles:

Maya Lin : systematic landscapes essays by Richard Andrews, John Beardsley ; foreword by Lawrence Weschler.

Maya Lin : honoring our forgotten heroes by Bob Italia.

Maya Lin : architect and artist by Mary Malone.

Maya Lin : [American Academy in Rome, 10 dicembre 1998-21 febbraio 1999 / saggi di Michael Brenson ... et al. ; traduzioni, Cynthia De Nardi Ipsen, Scriptum, Roma].

Maya Lin by Tom Lashnits.