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December 15, 2022 By Mike Sonksen “This is art that is coming to the people,” declared California state senator Maria Elena Durazo minutes after Judy Baca’s new nearly 78-foot mural was unveiled on April 1, 2022, at UCLA in honor of the school’s 2019 centennial. Permanently installed on the Wescom Student Terrace, on the first level…
![[UCLA Newsroom] The Story of Us](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/mural-iPR_b1785a19-f19d-4709-8254-2b0d9-768x216.jpg)
September 14, 2022 Mary Daily | Photo by David Esquivel Judith Baca has come home. The renowned muralist’s latest monumental work celebrates the campus where she spent her career. The nearly 80-foot mural, titled La Memoria de la Tierra: UCLA (or The Memory of Earth: UCLA), on the north side of Ackerman Union, was unveiled in April and…
UCLA@SPARC: today, students in Professor Judy Baca’s Chicana/o Studies course, Beyond the Mexican Mural, are engaging in a mural production at SPARC… entitled, “LA Tropical”, the production offers students insight on how to facilitate collaborative community projects. Based on student research, the mural reflects the lives of ordinary Angelinos in a meaningful visual narrative. Stay…
