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20 Portraits completed by students at the LAUSD Judy Baca Arts Academy
The Judy Baca Arts Academy represents the tremendous potential for creative learning endeavors within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). We believe that academic preparedness means placing art, creativity and self-exploration at the center of the scholastic journey. The Emancipation Project, a collaboration between University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Judy Baca…
Engaging Communities in the 50th Anniversary of the Watts Riots – SPARC Mural Project
With support from the Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles, the office of City Councilman Joe Buscaino, and Los Angeles Unified School District As a part of pursuing the Watts 50th Anniversary project, members of the SPARC team have been working closely with the community group I Heart Watts. Our collaboration has become a meaningful…
VIRAL: SPARKING DIALOGUE AND IMPACTING CHANGE
On April 2016, SPARC partnered with social media community Art Responders and founder/curator, Daryl Elaine Wells, to produce VIRAL: 25 Years from Rodney King. The exhibition marked 25 years since the spread of what is arguably the first “viral” video: the LAPD’s beating of Rodney King, which gave rise to the 1992 L.A. Riots. In…
In solidarity with UCLA Students
Professor Judy Baca and her students in the UCLA@SPARC Digital/Mural Lab Beyond the Mexican Mural Class on Thursday, June 2, 2016. SPARC showered the students with love and food. Wanting them to know they always have a community here at SPARC. Baca provided the students a safe place to share what they were all feeling…
SPARC has been casting light on the social issues of our time since 1976
“EL VUELO” By Lapiztola Stencil of Oaxaca The swallow depicts the voyage of migrant workers as an act of empowerment and denotes hope for a future without borders. Located on the SPARC building.
SPARC’s very own invention – MuralShield: Demo on Baca’s -1984 Olympic Mural “Hitting The Wall”
SPARC’s MURAL RESCUE PROGRAM has been working to preserve, conserve, and restore murals (both painted and digital) that have been painted or printed on substrates and walls built in the public environment. SPARC’s MuralShield* has advanced the consolidation techniques developed by conservationists to become more compatible with acrylic on concrete murals and refined chemically the…
LA Times Sunday 2/21/16 Cover Story on Ayotzinapa: A Roar of Silence
EXHIBIT TRAVELS FROM SPARC TO ART DIVISION TO SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/museums/la-ca-cm-43-students-missing-sparc-20160221-story.html
Ayotzinapa Exhibition featured in LA Times Entertainment Section
Photo Credit: Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/museums/la-ca-cm-43-students-missing-sparc-20160221-story.html
The Great Wall Makes List of Top Things To Do In Los Angeles
The Great Wall Makes List of Top Things To Do In Los Angeles
SPARC’s Duron Gallery Exhibition Highlighting Ayotzinapa Students Featured in La Opinion
http://www.laopinion.com/2016/01/29/exposicion-en-los-angeles-mantiene-vigente-caso-ayotzinapa
From South LA to Venice Beach, SPARC is restoring history…
Help SPARC restore all Neighborhood Pride Mural Program murals (1988-2003), representing some of the most iconic murals in Los Angeles. Consider supporting our continued efforts to restore history. The funding SPARC has been awarded from DCA covers 20% of the Neighborhood Pride murals that need restoration. SPARC’s CityWide Mural Program has been in full swing. An amazing cadre of young, committed…
2016/2017 marks 40 years that these 3 gals had an idea….
Be a spark! Help us celebrate 40 years! We promise to be good stewards of your investment. Young peoples lives will be changed and impacted, neighborhoods will be illuminated with beauty and truth, and history preserved and not forgotten. Proposed 40th Plans – Kick off in May 2016 through May 2017: Reinstitution of CityWide Mural Program…
Judith Baca, USA Rockefeller Fellow, Visual Arts
Los Angeles mural artist Judith Baca was named Tuesday as the first muralist to win a grant from United States Artists since the nonprofit group began giving the $50,000 awards in 2006. Baca was the only Southern California winner this year among 36 United States Artists prize recipients in the nine categories: architecture and design,…
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu visits The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 L-R: SPARC Team: Elaine Raif, Marietta Bernstorff, Judy Baca, Debra J.T. Padilla, NEA Chairman Jane Chu, California Arts Council Director Craig Watson, National Council on the Arts Member Dr. Maria Rosario-Jackson, SPARC Team: Carlos Rogel and Kaelyn Rodriguez. PRESS RELEASE: http://arts.gov/news/2015/national-endowment-arts-chairman-jane-chu-visit-los-angeles-california-september-22%E2%80%9323
SPARC Awarded City Contract to Restore 9 murals
SPARC is proud to be a part of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) new CityWide Mural Program. Inspired by the legacy of Los Angeles’ murals and the passing of a new city-wide mural ordinance in 2013, funding was designated by the City of Los Angeles for new mural production and…
Historic AIDS Mural Saved from Destruction
“Love is For Everyone” by Mary-Linn Hughes and Reginald Zachary (1991) Twenty four years following its creation, one of the first public murals to address Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is scheduled to be restored, revived, and renewed! “Love is for Everyone” by artists Mary-Linn Hughes and Reggie Zachary, was originally commissioned in 1991 as…