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By Kristopher Gee Los Angeles PUBLISHED 6:00 AM PT Jul. 23, 2024 LOS ANGELES — Artist Judy Baca and a team of artists from the Social and Public Art Resource Center, also known as SPARC, have been working inside LACMA’s gallery space to create an expansion of “The Great Wall of Los Angeles,” a large-scale public art…

NATIONAL 1:30PM JULY 04, 2024 by A Martínez Listen to the audio clip here: 0:00/7:17: https://www.wfdd.org/story/half-mile-long-mural-los-angeles-celebrates-history-california Transcript A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: On this Fourth of July, we bring you a story about a celebration of American history. One of the world’s largest murals is painted on the side of a concrete-lined river running right through the…

BY ARMANDO PULIDO IN FRIEZE LOS ANGELES , FRIEZE WEEK MAGAZINE | 29 FEB 24 Judy Baca has transformed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art into her studio. In the museum’s Resnick Pavilion, behind a railed platform, a mural is taking shape, accompanied by archival photographs, site plans and a model of the Tujunga Wash in Los Angeles County’s San…

By Jori Finkel | 1 March 2024 A feminist who muscled her way into the Mexican muralist tradition, Judy Baca tends to work outside of museum spaces. She created the celebrated mural known as The Great Wall of Los Angeles on site at the Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River in North Hollywood, in the 1970s…

BY THE EDITORS OF ARTNEWS Chicana artist Judith F. Baca first conceived of what would become the half-mile-long Great Wall of Los Angeles in 1974, with the first stretch of it being painted in 1976. Beginning in prehistoric time and extending into the 1950s, the now iconic mural presents a retelling of the history from the perspectives of…

Los Angeles is Fashioning a “Tattoo on the Scar” Where Its River Once RanGrantmaking areaArts and CultureAuthorAnthony BalasPhotographyEmily Shur for Mellon Foundation Judy Baca co-founded the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), and starting in 1974, over five summers, employed 35 artists and over 400 socially and economically diverse youth and their families to…

Excerpt from the article by Chadd Scott on Forbes.com Visitors to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will see history in the making as Judy Baca and artists from the Social and Public Art Resource Center work on new panel sections for The Great Wall of Los Angeles mural inside the museum during public hours weekdays through June 2, 2024. Focusing…