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Alice Patrick Mural Fully Restored!
Funding from Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas’ for SPARC’s Mural rescue Program made it possible for Alice Patrick’s mural “Women Do Get Weary But They Don’t Give Up” to be fully restored, completed with an anti-graffiti coating, it will remain for another generation to come. But the story of how this mural came to be restored started last year.
The World Wall: A Vision of the Future without Fear
Collaborative art brings a range of people into conversations about their visions for their neighborhoods and their nations.
Finding a place for those ideas is the most challenging task for public artists in this time. – Judy Baca
Desparecid@s: Brown Bodies Disappeared and Divided by Borders
Through the use of visual art, the display of audiovisual material, and live performance, Desaparecid@s conveys the stories and lives of traditionally obscured migrants who have survived their disappearance or are currently in desaparecid@ status.
LA Times: Sparc In The News
Los Angeles Times: National Endowment of the Arts awards $26.3 million, with 122 recipients in California
Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls: Judy Baca. Ep.28
Amy Poehler knows that smart girls get better with age. This episode highlights the work of Judy Baca, an artist who uses murals to wake up people. WAKE UP!
Los Angeles Mural Ordinance Saga
FOR LATEST DRAFT OF MURAL ORDINANCE RELEASED JANUARY 4, 2013 CLICK HERE July 12, 2012 DRAFT – Los Angeles Mural Ordinance direct web link
The Judith F. Baca Arts Academy
The 2013 ‘Emancipation Project’ created by members of the 6th grade class asa gift for the school in partnership with UCLA Professor Judy Baca’s univeristy students in the UCLA@SPARC Digital Mural Lab.
Mural Ordinance: Why VARA? Why Digital Murals? Suzanne Lacy’s Digital Mural as a Case Study
“Three Weeks in January” Suzanne Lacy’s Digital Mural A Case Study for the New LA Mural Ordinance DIGITAL MURAL Suzanne Lacy’s “Three Weeks in January” is an 8’ x 32’ evolving Digital Mural fabricated in the UCLA@SPARC César Chávez Digital/Mural Lab facility. The digitally produced mural is printed directly on an aluminum substrate, and was…
Sparc’s 35th Anniversary
The 35th Celebration was held at SPARC’s historic home since 1977 – the Old Venice Police Station | 685 N. Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291
SPARC Official Mural Ordinance Documents Submitted to City of LA Department of Planning
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD ANY OF THE DOCUMENTS HERE: Document 1: SPARC’s Precepts and Recommendations in Drafting a Mural Ordinance Document 2: SPARC’s Key Points and Response to Mural Ordinance Draft Document 3: CAPA Document 4: VARA Document 5: Attorney Brooke Oliver’s notes from November 2011 Meeting Document 6: Attorney Brooke Oliver’s “Art on the Walls”…
Ernesto de la Loza highlighted in USC Graduate Short Doc on Plight of LA Murals
Ernesto de la Loza highlighted in USC Graduate Oliver Riley-Smith Short Doc on Plight of LA Murals