Marilyn "Lin" Arison (born May 10, 1937) is the co-founder of the National
YoungArts Foundation and the
New World Symphony. She is the widow of
Ted Arison, founder of
Carnival Cruise Lines, and a real estate investor in Florida.
Arison is an arts education advocate and a philanthropist. In 2007, she published a book about
Van Gogh
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and
impressionism
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, featuring her personal travel memoir alongside photographs by
Neil Folberg.
Arison was awarded the
National Medal of Arts
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by President
Barack Obama
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at the
White House
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on July 10, 2013.
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Living people
American patrons of the arts
American women non-fiction writers
United States National Medal of Arts recipients
1937 births