Lin Arison received the National Medal of Arts

Marilyn "Lin" Arison is the co-founder of the National YoungArts Foundation and the

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. She is the widow of

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, 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

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and

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, featuring her personal travel memoir alongside photographs by

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. Arison was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President

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at the

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on July 10, 2013.

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