Articles and media coverage of SPARC programs and projects.
![[The Art Newspaper] Chicana muralist Judith Baca receives National Medal of Arts in White House ceremony](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/JudithFranciscaBaca.jpg)
Baca is among the 12 individuals and organisations receiving the US federal government’s top honour for artists and art patrons this year. Judith Baca, the Chicana artist, educator and arts administrator who may be best known for her sprawling community mural project The Great Wall of Los Angeles—begun in the 1970s, still in process and, at…
![[Alta] History in the Painting: A new Judy Baca mural honors UCLA’s past, present, and future.](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/judy-baca-at-mural-unveiling-1654088318-768x512.jpg)
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…
![[SAAM Stories] Judy Baca On Her Mural Uprising of the Mujeres](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/saam-201926a-f_1_1-768x257.webp)
October 4, 2022 SAAM talks with the artist about her inspirations and the process of creating a portable mural by Wendy Rose and Claudia Judith Baca is a painter, muralist, and scholar who works collaboratively within communities to create sites of public memory. Her public arts initiatives reflect the lives and concerns of populations that have…
![[SAAM Stories] Comic Series Presents Ten (More) Stories About Visionaries and Rule Breakers](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Drawn-To-Art-Banner_1-768x384.jpg)
September 22, 2022 by Howard Kaplan In 2021, SAAM proudly introduced Drawn to Art: Ten Tales of Inspiring Women Artists, featuring web comics that illustrated the stories of rule-breaking, visionary artists in the hopes of inspiring young people. The inaugural digital-first series featured diverse voices that spanned the centuries and included artists working in a variety…
![[Los Angeles Times] See inspiring urban art on these 6 walks in L.A.](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ca-times.brightspotcdn.webp)
September 15, 2022 By Matt Pawlik You’ve heard of the great outdoors, but what about the great artdoors? We all know Los Angeles is a hiking haven — coastal, desert and mountain habitats are all easily accessible by trail — but our urban landscapes provide for some truly beautiful scenery too. My favorite? “The Great…
![[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…
![[New York Times] A Judy Baca Moment: ‘My Work Has Been Good for a Long Time’](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/judy_baca_NYTIMES_alana_paterson_.jpg)
June 2, 2022 Hailed for her rich depictions of California history and social struggle, the Chicana artist says the attention, after decades of being overlooked, surprises her. By Adam Nagourney LOS ANGELES — It has never been easy to see a Judith Baca mural. They are scattered around this city, splashes of color and depictions of…
![[The Art Newspaper] Artists visualise Los Angeles’s recent and pre-human histories in Lacma and Snapchat’s latest augmented reality collaboration](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Judy-Baca-The-River-Once-Ran-768x432.jpg)
April 18, 2022 The second edition of the digital art partnership features Snapchat lenses by artists Judy Baca, Kang Seung Lee and Sandra de la Loza by Scarlet Cheng The second round of augmented reality (AR) projects organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and Snapchat, titled Monumental Perspectives, launches today (18 April)….
![[The Guardian] Judy Baca, the renowned Chicana muralist who paints LA’s forgotten history: ‘My art is meant to heal’](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/judybaca_-768x461.jpg)
January 22, 2022 Decades after she created one of the longest murals in the world, the Chicana artist and scholar is receiving long overdue mainstream recognition by Sam Levin Judy Baca still recalls the day in the 1970s when the curator of an exhibit showcasing the work of emerging Los Angeles artists told her she couldn’t possibly include…
![[Washington Post] Judy Baca’s nearly 50-year-old Great Wall has never been more relevant to the monument wars](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/imrs-768x397.jpg)
January 20, 2022 by Philip Kennicott LOS ANGELES — When Judy Baca and a team of 80 kids began painting “The History of California” in 1976, almost no one considered the 1,000-foot-long mural project a monument. Since then, the painting has grown to more than 2,750 feet, and is known as the Great Wall of Los Angeles….
![[LA WEEKLY] Judy Baca Paints History in Living Color](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-19-at-6.45.55-PM.png)
December 9, 2021 By Shana Nys Dambrot The first clue you’re in for something special with Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective at the Museum of Latin American Art, is the color. Emanating from the work and radiating from the walls, a supercharged, warm and vibrating palette scheme takes over every bit of wall and…
![[Los Angeles Times] There’s more to Judy Baca than her ‘Great Wall of Los Angeles’ mural. The proof is at MOLAA](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1-768x512.jpg)
December 2, 2021 By Carolina A. Miranda [Read the Full Article Here]
