Magazine: Americas: February 2000 Issue

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…

By Caitlin HernándezPublished Jul 25, 2024 9:13 AM The Great Wall of Los Angeles — a historic outdoor mural documenting California’s history — is already one of the largest in the world. Now it’s being expanded. The colorful mural stretches more than a half-mile along the L.A. River network on the Tujunga Wash, depicting scenes from prehistoric times to the 1950s….

BY THE EDITORS OF ARTNEWS Chicana artist Judith F. Baca first conceived of what would become the half-mile-long Great Wall of Los Angeles in 1974, with the first stretch of it being painted in 1976. Beginning in prehistoric time and extending into the 1950s, the now iconic mural presents a retelling of the history from the perspectives of…