Exhibition

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...

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...