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    [Opening Reception] TACTO: Dialogues of Separation and Union

    Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, August 2, 2025 5 PM -7 PM **Content note: We will present a performance that contains sensitive and mature content. Please use discretion while visiting the gallery. --- This annual exhibition is more than an artistic collaboration—it is an act of resistance, care, and connection. By bridging these territories separated by a...

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  • [Pre-show] The 1970s: A Decade of defiance and Dreams

    SPARC at Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave Unit B1, Santa Monica, United States

    Stop in to get an early look at The 1970s: A Decade of defiance and Dreams, the latest segment of the expansion of the Great Wall of Los Angeles now in production! Browse the gallery and take in the stories, people, and events of the 1970s, from "Why Alcatraz Matters" to the movements and music...

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    Open House: SPARC at Bergamot Station

    SPARC at Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave Unit B1, Santa Monica, United States

    Join us on Saturday, May 31, 4pm - 6pm RSVP here Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the artistic process behind the expansion of the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural as we transition from rendering the energy of the 1960s to the inspiring stories, people, and events of the 1970s. Meet our team, tour...

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  • [Exhibition] The 1960s: A Generation on Fire

    SPARC at Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave Unit B1, Santa Monica, United States

    The 1960s: A Generation on Fire is the latest iteration and work in progress of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. The first half-mile of the Great Wall mural is located in the Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River. The Great Wall began in 1974 when the Army Corps of Engineers approached Judith F. Baca SPARC’s co-founder and current...

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  • Exploring Metaphors: The Creative Process of the Great Wall of Los Angeles

    Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    “Exploring Metaphors: The Creative Process of the Great Wall of LA” presents an exclusive behind-the-scenes view of the collaborative process that is extending the iconic Great Wall of Los Angeles mural from the 1960s to the present. Artistic Director Judy Baca leads a diverse team of researchers, muralists, digital artists, and technical specialists to expand on this...

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  • From the Local to the Global: Great Wall and World Wall

    SPARC at Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave Unit B1, Santa Monica, United States

    We’re thrilled to announce our new gallery-production space at the Bergamot Station Art Center. A significant expansion of SPARC, this space embodies our commitment to art, community, and social change. We eagerly present to you our inaugural exhibition: FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL: GREAT WALL AND WORLD WALL brings together two monumental mural projects...

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  • Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and the Great Wall

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United States

    For the first time in her practice, Judy Baca transforms a museum into a studio. She and artists from the Social and Public Art Resource Center expand The Great Wall of Los Angeles into the 21st century, painting two sections of the mural at LACMA. LACMA’s exhibition presents murals from the 1960s depicting the Chicano Movement, Watts Renaissance, and archival materials...

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  • The Great Wall of Los Angeles

    Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    Over the course of six blistering summers starting in the late 1970s, Judith F. Baca recruited a small team of artists and over four hundred at-risk youth to create the most significant public art monument of her native city, The Great Wall of Los Angeles. Stretching along the walls of the Tujunga Wash, the landmark mural...

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  • Mercedes Gertz: It’s All in a Dream

    Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    SPARC Unveils Mercedes Gertz’s Captivating Exhibition Showcasing the Power of Dreams at the Duron Gallery! Mexican conceptual artist, Mercedes Gertz, takes center stage once again with her latest exhibition, designed to ignite the creative potential that resides within our dreams. The exhibition, accompanied by a series of empowering workshops, promises to immerse attendees in a...

  • Subverting the Male Gaze: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History

    Durón Gallery at SPARC 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    June 17 – July 8, 2023 Artist’s Reception: June 17, 2023, 6pm – 8pm In this series of digital photo-montages, the feminist artist invades iconic works of western art and gazes back, sending up masterpieces with scintillating satire. Each piece delivers a blow to patriarchal canonical scenes through a sparkling and mischievous feminist lens. Open...

  • Judith F. Baca: The Great Wall of Los Angeles

    Jeffrey Deitch Gallery 925 N. Orange Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Over the course of six blistering summers starting in the late 1970s, Judith F. Baca recruited a small team of artists and over four hundred at-risk youth to create the most significant public art monument of her native city, The Great Wall of Los Angeles. Stretching along the walls of the Tujunga Wash, the landmark mural...

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  • Judith F. Baca: The World Wall

    The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    On View Sept 11, 2022 @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA The World Wall  Celebrated Chicana muralist Judith F. Baca began her collaborative, portable mural The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear in 1990. An ambitious, utopian, and international project, The World Wall is rooted in the philosophy that in order to achieve world peace, we...

  • Why We Won’t Just Leave Exhibition [Opening Reception]

    Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    Join us for the virtual opening of Why We Won't Just Leave: What Alaska is Telling the World About Climate Change on February 27th at 4:00 PM PST. This event will feature a special tour and talk by exhibition curator Lindsay Carron. Why We Won’t Just Leave features portraits, paintings, photography, stories, and video profiles...

  • Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective

    MOLAA - Museum of Latin American Art 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA, United States

    Co-Curated by Guest Curator Alessandra Moctezuma and MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga July 2021 – January 2022 Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of the internationally renowned Chicana muralist, public intellectual and community activist, Judy Baca. Baca is a painter and muralist, community arts pioneer, and...

  • Signs from the Heart: California’s Chicano Murals

    Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    Chicano Murals from Archive to Gallery! Join us for Signs from the Heart: California's Chicano Murals SPARC is proud to invite you to a special exhibition on Chicano murals in California. The resistance, resilience, and cultural pride of Chicano murals continues to empower generations and to influence public art in our cities. SPARC maintains the largest...

  • The Patchwork Healing Blanket – Virtual Exhibition

    Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    The Patchwork Healing Blanket: Piece-by-Piece and Country-by-Country is an international textile art project that unites generations of women in a global movement against gender-based violence and the destruction of Mother Earth. In 2019 a group of women artists from Oaxaca and Mexico City, led by Founder/Director Marietta Bernstorff, started working together to develop the Patchwork Healing Blanket/La Manta...

  • Upcoming Exhibition: The Box Project

    Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    Join us on Saturday, November 9th in our Durón Gallery from 5-8 PM for the opening reception The Box Project Exhibition. The Box Project features the work of three women’s collectives located in Paris, Mexico City, and L.A., who began exchanging small artworks with each other. In the vein of Mail Art of the 1960s and women’s art...

  • De Colores Means All of Us Exhibition

    Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    De Colores Means All of Us: Art and the Dialectics of Coalition Building in Communities of Color, curated by Claudia Huiza —A core exhibition of the Sur Biennial, Fall 2019 Opening in the Red Room Gallery on September 21 - November 16, 2019 Reception: September 21 @ 3-5PM This exhibition will focus on cross cultural relations between female-identified...

  • Now on View: Down the Rabbit Hole

    Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    Down the Rabbit Hole explores the symbolic language of images from a Mexican feminist perspective. Symbolic language has the ability to express abstract ideas that are otherwise difficult to translate in direct, analytical speech or text. This language of images is felt more so than it is heard, and honors the realm of instinct, dreams,...

  • Tomboys! Upcoming Exhibition

    Social and Public Art Resource Center 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, United States

    Tomboys Christina Schlesinger   June 8th –August 16th, 2019 Opening reception: June 8th, 7-9:30pm   Opening June 8 through August 16, SPARC will present Christina Schlesinger in the  Durón Gallery . Tomboys features a vibrant collection of artworks by Christina Schlesinger that examines the intersections between gender, identity, fashion, sex, and representation. The exhibition includes...