Lucas Museum in L.A. acquires Judith F. Baca’s ‘Great Wall’ archive (LA Times)

by Gabriel Arizon, San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol. July 31, 2024 A pedestrian bridge was installed over the Tujunga Flood Control Channel on Thursday, July 25, that once completed, will provide community members a better view of the San Fernando Valley landmark – the Great Wall of Los Angeles. The added pathway on Coldwater Canyon Avenue…

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….

Grantmaking area Arts and CultureAuthor Judy BacaPhotography Emily Shur for Mellon FoundationDate March 11, 2021 A grant through the Monuments Project has enabled artist Judith F. Baca and her community collaborators to add chapters to the “Great Wall of Los Angeles.” In this guest essay, Baca describes the impetus behind the decades-long project. Bienvenidos a…

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…