Follow us on Social Media!
Stay up with our latest projects, gallery shows, and ways you can be involved:
Similar Posts
![[Mellon Foundation] Grant Story: The Great Wall of Los Angeles](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ES_20220406_Mellon_Foundation_03_00429-v1_2304x1536.jpg)
[Mellon Foundation] Grant Story: The Great Wall of Los Angeles
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…
![[EL PAÍS] ‘The Great Wall of Los Angeles’: An alternative version of US history turned into street art](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/The-Great-Wall-of-Los-Angeles-An-alternative-version-of-US-history-turned-into-street-art-768x513.jpg)
[EL PAÍS] ‘The Great Wall of Los Angeles’: An alternative version of US history turned into street art
Schools have taught alternative versions of United States history for decades — a fact that continues to be the source of controversy. Hundreds of books have been devoted to reviewing and reinterpreting the country’s founding. Political discourse has changed too, incorporating new points of view. In Los Angeles, Judy Baca chose to tell her version…
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…
![[Smithsonian Magazine] Using 3D Imaging To Preserve Chicana Artist Judy Baca’s Mural “Uprising of the Mujeres”](https://sparcinla.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/baca_exam_092421_006_sized.jpg)
[Smithsonian Magazine] Using 3D Imaging To Preserve Chicana Artist Judy Baca’s Mural “Uprising of the Mujeres”
A behind-the-scenes look at how 3D imaging helps a mural conservator preserve Judy Baca’s “Uprising of the Mujeres” Wendy Rose, October 14, 2022 In the fall of 2021, I joined the conservators in SAAM’s Lunder Conservation Center to work on an incredible mural painting, Uprising of the Mujeres, by the Chicana artist Judith F. Baca. Baca…