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SUMMARY:[Exhibition] A People's Legacy: Public Memory\, Social Justice\, and the Great Wall of Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition follows the groundbreaking career of artist and educator Judith F. Baca and the creation of The Great Wall of Los Angeles. Emerging from her early work as a teacher and youth counselor in Los Angeles\, Baca developed innovative models of mural-making that combined community collaboration\, rigorous historical research\, and collective storytelling. Produced with hundreds of youth\, artists\, and historians through the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)\, the mural transformed the Tujunga Wash flood control channel into a sweeping chronicle of often-unspoken histories of historically marginalized people and their struggles for social justice. The exhibition highlights Judith F. Baca’s training at the renowned Taller Siqueiros in Cuernavaca\, where she studied advanced mural techniques and the principles of collective composition developed by David Alfaro Siqueiros—an experience that strengthened the stylistic cohesion and narrative scope of The Great Wall of Los Angeles and helped shape it into one of the world’s largest murals and a powerful monument to collective memory. In a time of renewed cultural and historical erasure\, the Great Wall stands as a bold testament to resistance and the enduring power of public art.\n\nDurón Gallery Hours\nTuesday-Friday 11am – 5pm\nSaturday: 1pm – 5pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture\, and is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
URL:https://sparcinla.org/event/exhibition-a-peoples-legacy-public-memory-social-justice-and-the-great-wall-of-los-angeles/
LOCATION:Durón Gallery at SPARC\, 685 N. Venice Blvd.\, Venice\, CA\, 90291\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:[Exhibition] The 1980s: The Taste of Bitter Fruit
DESCRIPTION:The 1980s: The Taste of Bitter Fruit focuses on grassroots organizing that formed in resistance to the turn towards conservatism in American politics. This section of the Great Wall of Los Angeles highlights the rise and ruin of Reaganomics\, which was an economic policy based on a trickle-down theory that assumed the working class would benefit from the government cutting corporate and high-income earner taxes. However\, this theory was severely flawed and wealth inequality grew tremendously during the 1980s due to these tax cuts.  \nIn combination with Reaganomics\, the president instituted other policies that directly harmed working-class people and left structural problems we still reckon with today. The closure of mental health facilities directly led to an increase in the unhoused population. In 1984\, advocates rallied around Tent City to raise awareness of the rising rates of homelessness in Los Angeles. Similar grassroots campaigns were taking shape throughout the decade. Students of the Free South Africa Movement urged their universities to divest from Apartheid South Africa and the release of political prisoner Nelson Mandela. First Lady Nancy Reagan launched the feeble Just Say No program in response to the growing crack and cocaine epidemic\, which disproportionately harmed Black and brown communities with over policing and mass incarceration as a result of President Reagan’s ramped-up War on Drugs. In response to continued attacks on their communities\, counterculture movements such as Punk\, Rap\, and Hip-Hop developed in Los Angeles and became vessels for disenfranchised people to speak to their real-life experiences. Alice Bag’s lyrics\, “you say justice is colorblind\, I know you’re lying\,” highlights the active resistance of the punk scene.  \nIn 1984\, the Olympic Games returned to Los Angeles\, featuring the first-ever Olympic women’s marathon event. While Los Angeles became a more globally connected city\, Asian Americans faced xenophobic violence due to American resentment over booming East Asian economies. LGBTQ communities across the nation were devastated by the AIDS epidemic and the lack of federal support as hospitals overflowed. The signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act saw a rise in disability activism and visibility. Feminist women of color highlighted their unique struggles and experiences\, which diverged from those of white feminists. National grassroots resistance was created by women of color to combat attacks on welfare\, while locally\, Mothers of East LA fought back against manifestations of environmental racism. The US-funded civil wars and neo-colonial economic domination in Central America led to the starvation and displacement of thousands who fled to the US as refugees\, many opting to use the deadly La Bestia train to come North. Women of rural Mexico formed Las Patronas to help migrants survive the dreaded journey. This chapter of the mural uplifts the grassroots organizing of everyday people to shape their own future in the face of tremendous systemic obstacles and endless human greed. 
URL:https://sparcinla.org/event/exhibition-the-1980s-the-taste-of-bitter-fruit/
LOCATION:SPARC at Bergamot Station\, 2525 Michigan Ave Unit B1\, Santa Monica\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:[Open House] The 1980s: The Taste of Bitter Fruit
DESCRIPTION:Drop to see our progress on the Great Wall of Los Angeles\, now showing The 1980s: The Taste of Bitter Fruit with Special Guest – ALICE BAG\, co-founder of the Bags\, singer-songwriter\, author\, educator\, and feminist activist. \nExplore the exciting expansion of the Great Wall of Los Angeles and get a behind-the-scenes look at the artistic process behind one of the nation’s most significant public artworks. Meet our team\, tour the studio\, and learn more about the stories and history being brought to life through this monumental mural project. We look forward to welcoming you! \nKindly RSVP here to let us know if you are planning to stop by! \nEmail us for more information at info@sparcinla.org or call (310) 822-9560 \nThis exhibition is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture
URL:https://sparcinla.org/event/open-house-the-1980s-the-taste-of-bitter-fruit/
LOCATION:SPARC at Bergamot Station\, 2525 Michigan Ave Unit B1\, Santa Monica\, 90404\, United States
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